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Thursday, October 25, 2012

The Complications of washing your hands in modern society...

So now at work they have this motion sensor thing for the soap dispenser. Seriously??? oh my word. Already we had the sensor on the faucet. Will the water stay on when you want? no. It wants you to wave at it in one direction. Will it go off when you are done washing your hands? no it goes off when it decides, unless of course you get the screen wet that senses motion, then it runs until night fall. If that was not enough the paper towel dispenser is motion sensing as well. If you accidently wave your arm near the sensor while washing your hands, it will start giving you more paper towel. Ya. so it has its own brain and yours has been retired for this activity of drying your hands. The problem is you have to do way too much thinking to just wash hands and dry them. I have other things I want to be thinking about while I am doing a mindless task..now that is all shelved for the important task at hand. So about the sensor on the soap thing. This sensor is very particular, I mean REALLY particular. It wants you to wave at it in some certain geometric progression, I think. Unfortunately I have yet to figure out what that  is. Once I did it by accident but did not memorize my motions so there you have it. The soap came out in a burst all over the sink (I wasn't ready therefore did not have my hand properly positioned) This is a serious issue when you are a nurse and washing your hands is kind of a big deal. Now I have to open the door with the clean hand and go find my bottle of waterless hand wash to clean off my hands after using the bathroom..wow. I am so glad we have acquuired all these new and better ways of doing simple things. (she said sarcastically)

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