"No Touch" Bathroom Fiasco

Because of my healthy phobia of germs (I think it is healthy), I applaud public restroom designers who are creating no-germ contact zones.  This is a quantum leap forward in human progress.  Features like automatic flushing toilets, soap dispensers and faucets, along with interior doors that open outwardly with the nudge of a foot make using a public restroom without any part of my flesh coming into actual contact with anything physical a much easier scenario.  When my friend Jason blogged of his frustration with this amazing technology(how it never works and he hates it), I had a difficult time empathizing with his feelings.  However, today on a break between Emergent seminars here in Nashville; I ducked into the bathroom for a quick pit stop.  The toilet in this automated restroom flushed on cue, the soap dispenser spit out an appropriate amount of soap as I placed my hands underneath it, however the faucet did not respond to the strategic placement of my hands in the appropriate spot.  I moved to the next faucet, it too ignored the wave of my soap filled hands.  Tim’s frustration story with automatic faucets popped into my mind, maybe he was right, and this technology is ridiculous.  Just as I was about to walk out the door with soap still on my hands another person walked up and began washing his hands.  It was at that moment that I realized that the faucets were not automatic, but manual, oh gosh, what a moron I am…

Comments

[djchuang]

good that you're concerned about health and avoiding germs, but what about all the other people who aren't? At a convention or at church, we all often have to shake hands with people, and who knows what their sanitary behavior is!? :)

[timsamoff]

Hey, Mike... This was Jason's frustration:

http://jacobswellchurch.org/blogs/jason/archives/001437.html

Great sermon, byt the way -- even if I do feel a bit victimized. ;)