Touchless Paper Towels OMFG!

[jitts3]

Have to rant here. Now I know I drive for a living and have to use more public rest rooms then I care to mention...but enough is enough. First of all there are two places to go. Public rest areas along the highway, or truck stops, sorry "Travel Centers". (You pick the brand). Rest areas almost always have the hand blowers, so when you wash your hands you just stand there infront of the dumb ass blower for 10 minutes while the thing blows cold air on your hands. Most times I finish drying on my pants. They say it makes less waste, yet who cares of the jobs killed by not making or trucking papertowels.
Now on to thge truck stops. There you have the electric machines, the ones that you don't touch to get the towel. These annoy me the most. this was invented by some half gay guy or housewife who thinks you can get the HIV from a doorknob, yet they do the nastiest stuff in bed with strangers... go figure. These damn machines no only take forever to give you the towel buy limit the length of towel, and the time between sheets.
I love the old fashioned onse with the crank on the side. The ones that give you all you want if you want to turn the crank.
So the next time you see a guy coming out of the restroom with wet hands and going to the napkins at the soda dispensor to dry off or using the brochures at a rest area, wave at me and say hi!
This crazy ness is due to two things, this BS "green adjenda" and the crazys that think death is lurking a "touched door knob" away.

 

[fc3]

Hmm. The company has those dispensers at all of its locations now. I never had any problems with them. Considering how people drive, that your biggest annoyance on the road is the paper towel dispenser... consider yourself lucky! OR I'll sic my co-worker on you. That will ruin your day.

 

[jitts3]

Very true. But this just illistrates how silly things can get. As I said. Tons of jobs get lost this way. This is part of the reason I'm sitting here in jersey look and waiting for a load to haul. Not good.

 

[fc3]

That and retail sales were down an unexpectedly great amount.

 

[jitts3]

That and retail sales were down an unexpectedly great amount.

That's why there is a Cheap LTL (Less than Truck Load) 16 ft piece on my trailer waiting and looking for more freight rather than trucking now. Loosing cash now. Watching all my summer plans dissapear rapidly.:smt100
EDIT Not to mention I can't even go home and work on my boat using parts I already purchased due to almost chopping off my finger on Sunday.

 

[tdappleman]

Here's a good way to beat the time limit - tear your first towel off and it resets - then it feeds another after it senses motion. You can also wave at it on the way to the urinal and by the time you need it you can get another...

sigh... can't believe I know that or typed it...

 

[billandamy]

I love the old fashioned onse with the crank on the side.

I poop on those.

 

[Kameroo]

You can also wave at it on the way to the urinal and by the time you need it you can get another...

Perfect--that's what I do. One of my frequent stops has 2 machines side-by-side, so you walk in, wave by both of them, come back and you've got 4 little sheets dispensed for you. Nice.

 

[Asureyez]

These businesses spend 600 bucks to buy a towel dispenser to save 15 inches of towel per roll. It takes one heck of a salesman to make that deal go over. Sheesh! It's paper, waste paper at that, made from post consumer waste and probably recycled 90 times by the time its gets to rebirth in paper towels. The wet towels are probably recycled too.

I hate the electric eyed towel dispenser, it casuses long lines in the heads and makes guys just wave off washing and they grab the door handle with Pi$$y hands as they leave. Of course employees wash, sanitize and use the towels and driers and then grab the pi$$y door handles ... go figure .... And how was your burger Mr. Chad?

 

[jitts3]

Glad to know I am not the only one annoyed by these Machines. This is, to me, just like the plastic bags at Wal-mart. I was asked "Would you like to buy the reuseable bags?" I reply no, the guy who makes the plastic bags would like to keep his job. In the end the Greenies are helping to kill the economy. It's not just paper towels.

 

[Beer Thirty]

I hate those things with a passion!

 

[jg300da]

Here's a good way to beat the time limit - tear your first towel off and it resets - then it feeds another after it senses motion. You can also wave at it on the way to the urinal and by the time you need it you can get another...

sigh... can't believe I know that or typed it...

Ha! and I can't believe I was thinking the same exact thing...

 

[JV II]

How about this?:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkQrCF-D-9k[/YOUTUBE]

 

[fc3]

How about this?:

Glad I'm not going to any chevrolet dealers.

 

[jitts3]

How about this?:

[youtube]fkQrCF-D-9k[/youtube]

At 1:08 he says "there pretty much dry." Towels are DRY. Thats my point. That machine costs what. Just googled it http://news.cnet.com/8300-17938_105-1-0.html?keyword=Dyson+Airblade .$1,400.00 per unit OMFG!!! How many paper towels does that buy? Thats insane. So as I said we kill the paper mill industry jobs to in the end waste money on the machines to spend more than if we just bought the damn towels. And the Greenies don't have us brainwashed? Yea Right:smt009

 

[JV II]

$1,400.00 per unit OMFG!!! How many paper towels does that buy? :smt009

That would be 121,792 paper towels.

 

[Woody]

These businesses spend 600 bucks to buy a towel dispenser to save 15 inches of towel per roll. It takes one heck of a salesman to make that deal go over. Sheesh! It's paper, waste paper at that, made from post consumer waste and probably recycled 90 times by the time its gets to rebirth in paper towels. The wet towels are probably recycled too.

I hate the electric eyed towel dispenser, it casuses long lines in the heads and makes guys just wave off washing and they grab the door handle with Pi$$y hands as they leave. Of course employees wash, sanitize and use the towels and driers and then grab the pi$$y door handles ... go figure .... And how was your burger Mr. Chad?

What I'm wondering is how come all those guys are pi$$ing on their fingers.:huh:

 

[Chris R]

Kudos to all of you that have this issue with the paper towels. At least this tells me you are washing your hands rather than the dimwits that walk out without, then put their grubby nasty-ass hands all over everything else. I'm not paranoid, but give me a break. If I wanted someone else's poop flakes or left over drippage all over my hands, I'd just go rub my hands all over the toilet.

 

[Scottzzzy]

Glad to know I am not the only one annoyed by these Machines. This is, to me, just like the plastic bags at Wal-mart. I was asked "Would you like to buy the reuseable bags?" I reply no, the guy who makes the plastic bags would like to keep his job. In the end the Greenies are helping to kill the economy. It's not just paper towels.

:thumbsup::lol::lol:

My wife and her Subaru Tree Hugging Friends think I am nuts, but this is exactly what I do and why I do it!!

 

[billandamy]

Kudos to all of you that have this issue with the paper towels. At least this tells me you are washing your hands rather than the dimwits that walk out without, then put their grubby nasty-ass hands all over everything else. I'm not paranoid, but give me a break. If I wanted someone else's poop flakes or left over drippage all over my hands, I'd just go rub my hands all over the toilet.

Actually, many studies have shown that washing your hands in a public washroom without taking precautions will make your hands more full of germs than before you went in ;-)

People wipe, get poop on their hands...whats the first thing they touch? The knob on the faucet. They turn it on, wash, then turn it off, getting the germs right back. Then you come in and do the same.

You MUST use a paper towel to turn the knobs AND open the door.

Of course, with many places now switching to knobless faucets, this is decreasing.

My penis, by the way, is definitely cleaner than the germs you can pick up all day long touching gas station handles to fill up gas (how many of you wash after using that?) and public ATM machine touch screens etc...and unless you have a problem, getting pee on your hands is pretty tough.