Automated Sinks & Soap

I went on my little rant about automatic toilets and meant every word but that isn't the end. While I was at church the other day I stopped to use the facilities and had a hard time getting soap. The thing was automated and kept dumping soap on the counter and not my hand. After a few attempts it finally worked but then I felt like I needed to try to clean up the mess. As I tried to get the soap from under the thing and dumped more soap on my hand about three more times. Jeez it was frustrating. I did manage to get the soap cleaned up and off my hands too.

Since the incident at the church I have had a few more incidents with automated sinks and soaps which made me remember prior incidents with these wonderfully frustrating things. Faucets in a public restrooms in my mind are covered in the most disgusting germs ever. The beauty of the automated systems are that we don't have to touch those germ covered things!

Then they came up with motion sensors in the soap dispensers. I am not too sure of why we need those. The tap to the dispensers are probably as disgusting as the faucets but they are dispensing the soap to wash those things away! The dispensers seem to work most of the time but when they don't it frustrates a little.

Unlike the toilets the automated sinks and soaps never startle me, splash me or make me feel lazy. They actually make me feel safer by allowing me not to touch public germs. I am grateful not to have to touch every germ left behind by others and not to share mine with them. I am not a germ-a-phobe but I don't like the idea of sharing germs with everyone either.

Still I am happy to have them. I just wish they would work better!