‘Everything’s going wrong. The whole day. And to make matters worse we’re
finishing late. We end up at this residential care home miles out of town. Turns
out the patient isn’t at death’s door. In fact not only is he not at death’s
door, he’s sitting up in bed drinking tea and watching Pointless. So we leave
him with a GP referral and head back out to the truck. I’d been putting off
going to the loo for the last couple of hours and there’s no way I’m making it all
the way back to base with a bladder the size of a space hopper. I see there’s a
visitor’s toilet in the lobby so I nip in quick, do the do, wash my hands, and
then I’m looking round for a paper towel. But all they’ve got is one of those
hand blowers on the wall. Great. I
hate those things. Noise like a 747 and you still walk out rubbing your hands on
your trousers. But anyway, I go through the motions. I put my hands underneath.
Nothing. I look for a switch on the wall but can’t find one. I put my hands
under again, a bit closer. Further away. I slap the side of it. Put my hands
back really slowly. Nothing. Great. If
there’s one thing I hate more than a blower it’s a blower that doesn’t work.
Then the door opens and this guy comes in. He sees me standing there with my
hands underneath the thing, about to rip it off the wall, throw it through the
window and then drown myself in the toilet. And he says, really quietly, like
he’s talking to a psycho: It’s actually a
towel dispenser.’
7 comments:
Hee hee. I hate those blowers too. They use them at work but the noise annoys me so I just air dry the old fashioned way.
Modern life Spence.
One of my customers told me of the time he went to a cash point and was pressing the screen instead of the buttons on the side.Too used to his smart phone.
tpals - Well, here's hoping we're seeing the end of the Age of the Blower. (Seriously. Even those blade-style blowers are rubbish). Although, for the sake of balance, I'll admit that towels have their problems, too. Sometimes you pull one and half a dozen fall out. Grr. And then some people still insist on putting them in the toilet. But at least it all happens quietly...
I like that story about the guy pressing the screen at the cash point, Jack. Has he got a flat nose from walking into (non) automatic doors? I must admit, though, I missed a lot of calls on my new phone till someone showed me you had to slide to answer... :/
I remember a report published a while ago and blowers are def. totally unhygienic, paper towels are ok but whatever it is, you can't win because plenty of people never wash their hands anyway before the touch the door handles.
I remember reading something like that, too. And it's true about touching the door on the way out. I try not to think about that (maybe they should make the doors foot operated somehow...) :/
Paper Towel Dispenser...love it...that could so much be me!
Yep - I admit - I do suffer from Hopeless Uncontrollable Loss of Knowhow syndrome (HULK). When things don't work like I expect them to I turn green and end up swatting helicopters with uprooted trees.
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