Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy So what's with people today? I just assume that as kids we're all taught by Mom, Dad, "Sesame Street", and more to wash your hands after using the restroom. And what do I see repeatedly at work? Guys comin' in, goin' to the urinal, and just walkin' out---walkin' out! Okay, maybe they technically don't touch anything to require washing, but it's the principle of the thing. I'm like "Hello, *I'm* right here--I SEE you're not washing your hands! Don't you think I notice that? Aren't you self-conscious and afraid I'll tell everyone at work you went to the bathroom and didn't wash your hands?" (they probably aren't and I don't announce it but I just can't believe it, lol). Oh, and some guys do the "put your hands under water for 2 seconds" thing. Literally. As if *that's* "washing your hands". And one day I was in there when a man came out of one of the stalls and actually left---LEFT. No water, soap, nothin'. I had never seen or heard of anyone doin' that before, and I was just stunned. Luckily I didn't work anywhere near him, lol. I'm not too friendly with germs anyway---when there's a pull-to-get-out-door I like to pull on it with a paper towel after drying my hands. That reminds me of a "Golden Girls" quote from the pilot episode: Blanche: "I just hate using public restrooms. I wash my hands and then I find it so hard to get out without touchin' the knob." Too true, lol. And if we get into personal idiosyncracies, I can do the urinal thing just fine around anyone, but I really prefer solitude when I'm in a stall. I don't like it "known" I'm in there, lol. So, restroom thoughts?
Originally Posted By avromark Ummm, so you just stand there at the urinal and um not support or shake huh? Wash your hands, I hate washrooms that use the "push" water taps that you end up holding with one hand while washing the other, usually in ice cold water. I hate those "foam" soaps, it's liquid soap bubbles ok? And I do not appreciate having to hit the little switch a thousand times. I also don't like the older "tap the bottom where the liquid comes out" soap dispensers. And low wattage hand dryers, if you don't provide towels, at least give me a hand dryer thats powerful enough to you know like dry my hands.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy I have those same irks, avro. I don't mind the tap-the-bottom soap dispensers though---we have 'em here at work, and they actually have *soap*, lol. And as great as technology is supposed to be, I hate those automatic sinks and flushers!
Originally Posted By DVC_dad Well avro, I wasn't 100% sure if you wre a guy, although I suspected you were, but now I know you are LOL. I wash, and my kids all wash, and I think everyone should wash. If people understood the way a simple stomach virus was transmitted, from person to person, they would wash.
Originally Posted By avromark Well urinal ones I understand since most people don't flush. I hate people who dispose of gum in urinals. Please use urinal pucks in your urinals! As well don't you love those auto soapers, it's like half a drop of soap! Or those automatic paper towel dispensers, that make you take a 3" long piece, grab it, swipe hand again, take another short piece, grab it, swipe hand again... Give me enough paper to dry my hands. Oh and I love the places that put the sensor lights and have them on like a 10 second timer, I don't really think I need to step side to side to set them off. I stand close enough to a urinal, but ever notice some people who look like they're trying to squeeze into the urinal? Do you prefer the floor length urinals? Do you like the people who stand a foot away and like reveal themselves to you and try to converse. Of course there is no dividers when they do this.
Originally Posted By avromark Umm yeah Mark is such a feminine name i'm 100% guy, 100% there, unlike you americans
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle I hate public toilets, especially when people don't wash their hands - dirty, dirty, dirty. But the foam or spray soaps excite me, it's the liquid soap (which always smells like some nauseating strawberry or something) which I can't stand. Hello, my name is Liberty Belle and I'm excited by foam or spray soaps in a public bathroom.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling << "Hello, *I'm* right here--I SEE you're not washing your hands! >> Maybe they just don't see you way up there in the atmosphere.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Yeah, just last week someone here printed out a report about an outbreak of illness on a cruise ship, circled the part that said simply washing hands could have prevented the scope of it, and taped it above the paper towels, lol. Somebody's done somethin' else like that once before---but what happens? The guy who comes in tonight just after me leaves without washin' his hands...*sigh*...
Originally Posted By avromark Now for a joke Governator called the Right Honourable Prime Minister Stephen Harper with an emergency: "Our largest condom factory has exploded!" the Governator cried. "My people's favorite form of birth control! This is a true disaster!" "Arrnold, the Canadian people would be happy to do anything within their power to help you," replied the Prime Minister. "I do need your help," said Arnold. "Could you possibly send 100,000,000 condoms ASAP to tide us over?" "Why certainly! I'll get right on it!" said Mr Harper. Oh, and one more small favor, please?" said Bush. "Could the condoms be red, white & blue in color; at least 10" long and 4" in diameter?" "No problem," replied the Prime Minister and, with that, Stephen hung up and called the President of Trojan Canada. "I need a favor, you've got to make 1,000,000 condoms right away and send them to California." "Consider it done," said the President of Trojan Canada. "Great! Now listen, they have to be red, white & blue in color; at least 10" long and 4" in diameter." "Easily done. Anything else?" "Yeah," said the Prime Minister, "and print 'MADE IN CANADA; EXTRA SMALL' on each one."
Originally Posted By avromark <<Yeah, just last week someone here printed out a report about an outbreak of illness on a cruise ship, circled the part that said simply washing hands could have prevented the scope of it, and taped it above the paper towels, lol.>> Uh tape it above the urinals, and on the stall doors?
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy <Or those automatic paper towel dispensers, that make you take a 3" long piece, grab it, swipe hand again, take another short piece, grab it, swipe hand again...> Arrgh! Yes! <Do you prefer the floor length urinals? Do you like the people who stand a foot away and like reveal themselves to you and try to converse. Of course there is no dividers when they do this.> I actually prefer the higher shorter ones--I don't like the idea of havin' to spread my feet apart like a giraffe to keep 'em dry, lol. And I don't mind conversationalists, though I can't recall ever having been at urinals that *weren't* divided...and chicken, I may be tall 'n slim, but I ain't invisible none! Lol
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy <Uh tape it above the urinals, and on the stall doors?> Well tell them not me, lol. ;-P And it's in the vicinity of the urinals, so you "see" it when you leave (or you should).
Originally Posted By avromark Here well over half of places don't have dividers between urinals. At a certain football stadium where the Bills play they have those beautiful trough urinals, and the ring of water single bowl to wash your hand. Foot pedals do make sense for controlling the water though, you don't get your hands wet, you don't have to wave your hand under the sink, you don't have to outrace the timer on the "push" models.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling You make the jokes just tooo easy Tall. It's no fun if its easy.
Originally Posted By avromark Record a wash your hands spiel and play it over and over again, have a bad dub over with the Spanish version?
Originally Posted By alexbook Well, if the rest of this topic hasn't been adminned yet, maybe this old joke can pass muster: A Harvard student and a Yale student are both in the men's room. As the Yale student leaves, the Harvard student says, "At Harvard, they teach us to wash our hands after we urinate." The Yale student replies, "At Yale, they teach us not to urinate on our hands." From one of the stalls, a guy calls out: "It wouldn't matter anyway. The guy from Dartmouth was just here and urinated in the sink!"
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy <It's no fun if its easy.> Mustn't...get...naughty...family site...
