Warm air hand dryers share a damning trait with the recently banished erasable pens; their names are an outright lie. These dryers "dry" no more than erasable "erase" no more than "magic" markers are actually freaking magic.The diagram on the dryer instructs you to lightly rub your hands together under the warm air. A more appropriate diagram would include the following steps 1) Search in vain for alternate drying possibilities, 2) Violently shake wet hands, 3) Press Button, 4) Place hands under dryer, rub gently, 5) Repeat steps 3-4 until hands are dry or someone gets worried and comes looking for you, 6) Give up. Wipe hands on pants.
We try to be environmentally friendly over here at Banished. However, it seems (to others too!) that the carbon footprint left behind by one (especially recycled) paper towel is comparable to if not smaller than an energy-powered drying cycle (or 12...if you actually want dry hands).
Yes we are a nation of children who can't be trusted with access to unlimited paper towels because we might throw them all on the floor and have a pretty paper princess party, but the technology now exists to ration us to one towel at a time! Install these instead!
Next up for Banishment: Commercials for Prescription Drugs or Trick Birthday Candles
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3 comments:
prescription drug commercials!! esp since the new "VIVA VIAGRA" commercials kept coming on through all 5 hrs of the red sox game on saturday, and it was clearly making the older man and his 20 something yr old gf uncomfortable.
I don't care what your f*ing (as Natalie might write) poll results are... you must banish trick candles because I need to know about the many available perscription options for my various personal issues, but no one is EVER tricked by the candles - they just lamely pretend to be while we lamely pretend to be amused. They are about as trick as as invisible bra straps are invisible...
natalie,
i just wanted to tell you i am obsessed with your blog. jen told me about it last week and i check it every mon/wed/fri now! it's brilliant! hope all is well!
whitney
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