The difficult art of drying your hands

Alright, so I’ve been super busy lately with baby prep, but I can always take time out to get disgusted with my fellow man. As anyone that knows me well can attest, I have a long list of pet peeves. Chief among said pet peeves are those in the “Men’s Room” category. In the first picture below you’ll see the sink in the men’s room with a stack of paper towels. It’s really simple; when you wash your hands (assuming you do), you simply take a paper towel and dry your hands. So what exactly is going on in the second picture taken later in the afternoon? How can you so badly screw up such a simple process?! I should also add that this is not an isolated event and you can usually find this same scene on any given day of the week. Maybe one of my fellow employees has a crab claw for a hand, in which case I apologize. I’m sure living with a crab claw can be difficult in a society where most restrooms are not crab claw accessible. However, I feel this is a simple case of ass-headedness and could be cured by simply cleaning up after yourself.

sink right

sink wrong

5 Responses to “The difficult art of drying your hands”


  1. 1 rattlesnack Aug 17th, 2006 at 12:28 pm

    …there’s either a crabclaw
    or an ass-head in my p.o.w.
    as well. In fact, I suspect
    our land doth crawl with said
    beasts - as this occurence has
    been witnessed in nearly every
    bathroom I’ve ever entered.
    …could it be that humans are
    much lazier or less intelligent
    than we had previously thought?
    Surely not! It must only be that
    we’ve misjudged the populace
    of this ass-claw demographic.

  2. 2 Old Doc Tucker Aug 17th, 2006 at 4:25 pm

    Gad Zooks! I hate that too! But, I find that nothing beats the old ‘Let’s see how much urine I can get on the toilet seat’ routine. It is especially bad when it is the ONLY toilet in a men’s room with 2 urinals. If they loved their fellow man as much as themselves, perhaps they would realize that no one wants to sit in their urine.

    Don’t even get me started on people who don’t know how to flush.

  3. 3 Boney Fife Aug 17th, 2006 at 7:06 pm

    yeah, in my office someone likes to dry their hands by rapidly shaking them above the sink counter, thus relocating all of the water to said counter. then when you, oh, have to pee before going in front of eight Jacksonville Electric Authority officials to notarize their documents, you get a nice Niagara Falls affect on your kakhi crotch when you visit that same sink to wash your own hands.
    however, i’ve seen much worse than that from my time in retail, like the guy who apparently had a super-soaker installed in his colon.
    don’t let this go unavenged, Brando Calrissian. give them an inch…

  4. 4 Brook Aug 21st, 2006 at 1:47 am

    I wish I had a crab claw. Crab claws taste good. I would boil my own hand just to get some crab claw. Boiling my own hand would probably hurt, but that’s a small price to pay for a little crab…

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