That's like the people at Chipotle who pick up a stack of napkins four inches thick before they go sit down...
Anyone remember continuous hand drying towels in public restrooms?
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My pants will give you hundreds of borderline microscopic metal splinters that hurt like crazy but are almost impossible to remove!
Endmill chips are the absolute worst.
I kind of assumed they were since the ones I remember seemed to always be wet. Sounds more like most of the time someone wiped off and didn't pull it down for the next user.
...and the remnants of fecal matter from a crappy low water incomplete wash all over the room.
Frontier Airlines still has those at their maintenance hangar.
Somehow the subject with my 15 year old was of sanitation when drying hands. But when I was younger, I remember when a lot of places would have this mechanism with a captive cloth towel that was pulled down. I don't know exactly what it was supposed to do when it recirculated, but I would hope that it would somehow dry it some way. What I remember most about them was that they were often wet. I'm sure that they were supposed to be serviced regularly, but a wet towel would seem to be a breeding ground for assorted stuff.
Yep.
I remember these and never touched them.
I believe Kmart had them for a few years.
No, you pull it down yourself to get the 'clean' towel part.
I'm sure they're still quite common in factories, machine shops, etc. At my last job, there was one in the "lab" of the R&D/Engineering building I was in. It wasn't really a "lab" as it had machining equipment, test benches, etc. These sinks were great, except for the "soap" they used - it was the real gritty, dry-your-skin powder soap ! It got your hands clean though !
And no wasted trees!
1. I remember!!!
2. If you want to be all intellectual and sociology about it----a true sign of a "high-trust society," Everyone trusted that other peeps would thoroughly wash their hands w/soap and water versus the quick splash. **or** everyone was just naive about it. I dunno.
PS, paper towels are better than the air blowers, even the modern high-speed blowers that get their air from an outside duct.. Lots of germs in bathroom air....but I survive each time, lmao.
I think I saw one or two as a kid but not since. I always thought they were continuous as well.
There was never a guarantee a person before you washed their hands before using this thing.
That is how it is supposed to work. If everyone thoroughly washed their hands before using an air hand dryer, then it wouldn't be blowing germs around the bathroom quite as much. But I don't know how many times I've seen men run their hands under the water for no mare than 0.2 seconds, use no soap, and then use the air hand dryer. Yuck!!!
Just went through Schipol twice last month and only saw paper towels and blowers.
I dont even want to get into the basement bathrooms with no windows or fans in the RAI convention center.
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