Automatic Toilets & Sinks frighten me!!

[LynneSin]

:scared:

I mean, I know I'm the only one in the bathroom and yet sinks will just start running water on & off or a toilet will flush out of the blue.

Are we not alone?

[Hugin]

1. I'm embarrassed to admit...

I have no idea how automatic sinks work... I mean, there's no
wires to run the little IR "HAL 9000" eye thingie.

How's it powered? Guess, I'll have to take one apart someday
and see.

Dave? What are you doing Dave?

;)

[LynneSin]

2. It's run by sensors of some sort

like if I put my hand under the sink it knows something is there. Or if I lift my ass off the toilet seat it knows that something is no longer there. But why do these things just go off on random unless I'm working in a haunted building

:shrug:

[Hugin]

11. "Open the outer bay door HAL!"

"Take a leap Dave... By the way, you've got TP stuck to
your foot."

[GiovanniC]

3. There's One at My Work That Sometimes Doesn't Want to Flush

And you can't just wave your hand in front of it either. You have to walk away and then come back and pretend to use the facilities again before it will work. I've tried jumping up and down in front of it, covering the "eye" with my hand, waving my hand in front of the eye, swaying side-to-side in front of it, everything... The only thing that works is walking away for a minute, coming back, standing there for about 15 seconds, and then walking away.

I swear, management has hidden cameras in that goddamned bathroom and they are going to use that tape as blackmail against me if I ever try to leave the company.

[Hugin]

9. I'm invisible to the sink kind too...

It's like some kind of a sick mime show every time I try to
turn one on... I have to lurk until someone gets one going
and leaves it running.

The toilet kind work for me most of the time though.

Ahhh, a mystery.

[GiovanniC]

12. Oh, and I Forgot... I Have No Reflection in the Mirror, Too

Does that mean I'm evil?

Can automatic toilets and sinks detect evil?

[Hugin]

14. It's the *only* explaination... ;) n/t

[miss_kitty]

15. sometimes they have a manual button-usually on the top of the

silver tower of pipe behind the toilet. In Fact It seems they'd have to, so you can flush if the power is out. Or there is a malfuction. Also telling the people responsible for that stuff in the building, might get it fixed.

[GiovanniC]

25. It Probably Just Can't See Me

Because I'm evil. Like how vampires don't show up in the mirror.

[Bunny]

4. I love them. They cater to my germ phobia, although I would

never flush a public toilet with my hand anyway - always use the foot!

[LynneSin]

5. I'm a foot gal too

:D

[DS1]

7. You know that data about poo particles reaching up to 10 feet?

I had a toilet flush on me the other day so f*cking hard I got splashed on the arm

EWWWWW :puke:

Yes, I got some REALLY strange looks as I washed my arms all the way up to my pits in the bathroom, almost like I was scrubbing for the OR.

[barb162]

10. ummmm, no, what data??? never heard of this

(and I am not sure I want to read it, but send it anyway if you remember where you saw it)

[Hugin]

17. Scroll down to episode 12.

http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/episode/episode_04.html

[Hell Hath No Fury]

6. Even scarier are...

the newest toilets that not only flush and lower the seat on their own, but offer "cleaning" services for the sit-ee meant to do away with TP, including a little "blow dry" at the end. Just saw a report on the new bowls on HGTV this weekend.

I draw the line at cleaning my ass. ;)

[Kali]

8. heh

I had a chance to go to Turkey a few years ago and the toilets there that weren't the squat on the floor type (oh my bad knees) all had a little cold water "faucet" at the back of the circle.

[Richardo]

13. LynneSin stars as 'Unfrozen Cavewoman Lawyer'

"Your automatic sinks and toilets frighten and confuse me!!" :hi:

[DS1]

27. WATER BAD!!!! ARRRR!!!

:D

[Misunderestimator]

16. I HATE automatic toilets...

There you are balancing yourself over the damn thing and it flushes before you're finished!!! :mad:

[pdx_prog]

18. Yeah, and it usually flushes before you have the chance

to LOOK AT IT!....lol

[LynneSin]

19. I'll sit on the work toilets

they get cleaned twice a day and there aren't that many women on our floor

[Misunderestimator]

21. At work, I used the sanitary seat covers... and they weren't automatic...

thank goodness, but in airports and other places... Nuh uh... My ass is not touching that porcelain.

[LynneSin]

22. I won't touch anywhere else

Only reason I won't use seat covers is I don't like putting my hand near the toilet.

[underpants]

20. I prefer to do the "refreshing blast" manually

:wow:

[AlCzervik]

23. i like the automatic sinks, soap and paper towel dispensers

i'm ambivalent on the toilets.

[LynneSin]

24. No on soap & papertowels - you never get enough

:shrug:

[bleedingheart]

26. My daughter is so frightened of them she won't go to the bathroom

when we visited grandma out in CO...she didn't go to the bathroom until she got to Grandmas...it was a total of 7 hrs of bladder control...all because of her fear of them.

[LynneSin]

28. that's some damn good bladder control

:bounce:

[Lars39]

29. I especially don't like automatic toilets.

Sometimes they flush as soon as you sit down and sometimes they seem
to flush on a timing system, too.
It grosses me out to be sitting on a toilet when it flushes. It is not hygienic. :puke: