I don't know half of you half as well as I should like;
and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
A week or two ago I at college roaming between classes and I decided to stop by the bathroom. Too much info no doubt, but I took a notice to something as I was washing my hands and leaving. There were two hand driers in the room for environmentally sound drying of the hands. This is fairly normal and actually thanks to my wonderful tuition dollars they are the super high powered ones. If you've never used that type before, they really are amazing. They're the only driers that actually dry your hands within a few seconds, and to top it all off they don't randomly shut off after 30 seconds like most driers do. That's not my point though. They have these uber nice driers and one of them is placed at a normal height while the other is placed down low presumably for children. It was this drier that I was forced to use because someone was occupying the other one and I got to thinking how annoying it was to bend over to dry my hands. I mean if I was in a normal public bathroom it would be entirely natural, but I was at college and I don't know if you guys have noticed but there aren't really any children at college. There's maybe a day out of the year when kids come and I'm sure they could put up with higher hand driers on that day.
The thing is, I'm sure the construction companies just build them that way standard, or even worse there's some kind of government regulation to make sure that kids have their fair drying chance, but honestly couldn't they throw the college students a bone after all we've paid and have two hand driers at a decent non-hobbit sized height? Alas it's probably too much to ask for.
Ironically many things at elementary school buildings are much too high/tall for elementary school age things to reach. Even at my building. I have to wonder why they didn't consult the teachers before designing the new building. Better yet, why didn't they listen when they did consult the teachers?! Our largest bathroom is on the bottom floor, where there are two classrooms. The rinky dink bathroom is upstairs where there are 5 classrooms. I ask, does this make sense?! NO! *steps off soapbox* haha!
In conclusion, I'd think it's safe to say that the human race overall are comprised of idiots. =P
Perhaps this lower dryer was for handicapped people (too)? I know RIT has a thing for deaf students, but what's the percentage of students that regularly use wheelchairs that can't reach the upper-dryers?
You know what amazes me - it was Ohyo that thought of that...lol. Actually the thought crossed my mind when my wife read the post and mentioned wheelchairs - but lets be honest why should I have to bend over for their sake. ;-) j/k
Truthfully though I think they can reach the upper driers in wheel chairs - but the whole argument makes me sound like a jerk so I'll stop.
HA
I like how RIT plastered those stickers all over them too... just in case you didn't know that RIT was single handedly saving the environment.
But lets think about this... how many gajilligigiwatts does it take to power those things? That electricity has to come from somewhere and I hope no one is jaded enough to think that it comes from wind mills. So instead of using an easily renewable resource like trees, we're sucking down more oil/coal/etc.
There is a mandated height for things like that for people in wheel chairs. I was in a public restroom that requested you turn off the lights when you were finished. I had to reach down to do that. not to mention that it took some time to actually find the switch because it was not at a normal level and that it blended in perfectly with the wall color!
its pretty bad when the newest comment is like 2 weeks old. how's the new design?