At first, I thought you might have accidently missed the garbage can with your used paper towel. Then I thought that maybe you thought the paper towel had gone in, when it fell back out, because your used ball of paper towel was on the floor, below the garbage can, every day. As the weeks went into months, I’ve decided that you’re just plain lazy.
Although, there are some days that you used extra energy to throw the paper towel under the counter, sometimes all the way into the corner, so maybe you’re not lazy. Perhaps your religion doesn’t believe in garbage cans?
My personal favourites, though, are when you leave it on the counter, in the sink or on the floor between the doors. It’s good of you to shake things up every once in a while and keep the rest of us guessing as to where the paper towel will turn up next.
I haven’t actually caught you in the act yet, or I would ask you in person why you do this. If I worked for the management company, I’d put a sign up (next to the one about not flushing feminine hygiene products) pointing out the function of the garbage can.
—No longer picking up after you
This article appears in Jul 9-15, 2009.
This person has a pretty common personality tic– they don’t want to open the washroom door, which other people may have touched without washing their hands– and so they use a paper towel to open the door and then toss the towel behind them. You’ll see these people also bringing the towel out of the dispenser before they wash their hands, so they don’t have to touch the dispenser knob with clean hands, and if necessary, turning the water off with the towel as well.
Lots and lots of people like that. Not very rational– those people who don’t wash their hands are touching everything else out in the world– but that’s what’s up.
I think you’ve got it bang-on Tim. It doesn’t excuse the littering behaviour though. I’ve known some people who would take that piece of paper towel back to their office with them (and put it in thaeir own trashcan), rather than tossing it on the floor.
Yes, she’s trying to avoid touching the door handles on the way out. It may seem irrational, but I can see where she is coming from; it’s pretty rare to see anyone in the women’s washroom who actually washes her hands. (There’s plenty of the fake washing to impress others, but very little with soap.)
I’m not squeamish, but washing my hands is the difference between getting a cold each year and going a decade between colds. Worth it for me because I find colds irritating and unnecessary and washing my hands less so. To each her own.
I thought that it was the germ phobia thing too, but most of the time, the paper is on the floor before she has to open both of the bathroom doors, so she’s getting the germs back from those doors. And then she has to open her own office door, getting more germs. (and there’s still no reason for her to throw it under the sink as much as she has been lately)
Where I work, people do this too for opening the bathroom door. I’ve tried to move the garbage can closer to the door, but still close to the sinks, so people don’t drop towels on the floor on the way out…but they keep moving the can back. Fuck it, I tried.
I try my best to avoid touching doors, etc. with my hands. When I used to work in a hospital near the waiting room for a clinic frequented by the desperately poor, uneducated, and obese, I saw so much finger-painting on walls and doors that there is no way I’ll ever touch those surfaces again. Fuck! No wonder sick people are sick.
RaphEmer: I’d guess that the paper towel just gets blown around on the floor away from the door when it’s opened.
I’m not afraid to open any door with my bare hands. Man there are too many wimps out there.
Sorry Bro Tim. When I see shit smeared on nearby surfaces (and no attempt to clean it up!), I don’t touch the door handles. That’s not whimpy, it’s just sensible.
Don’t give up Miles! Keep moving the garbage can back where you want it. They will give up eventually, they will cave, you will be the victor!! Do it! Do it! Do it!
Miles…Miles…He’s our man…he’ll put back the gar-bage can! Yaaaaaay…MILES!
Seriously tho……lets say your in the washroom and your hands are germ-covered…..you got shit or piss or some other bodily fluid on them….what do you do….you use them to turn on the water with the faucet handle….then you wash them for a lonnnnng time to really get them clean…..now you touch that faucet handle again to turn off the water…..and in the process you just put the germs right back on your hands again!
I like those sensor flow faucets…..they make alot of sense.
Jammie now if there’s actual shit on something, that’s one thing, but for paper on the floor, that’s what cleaning staff is for, or if you’re so concerned use another piece of paper to rid of the other one.
Still too many germaphobes out there.
I saw an ad last night for a new Delta home faucet that turns off and on by being tapped. The whole concept of the ad was that you could have dirty ass hands (with paint or food or whatever from cooking) and you could tap the faucet with your arm and it would turn on and off and the faucet wouldn’t get dirty. Could work for a home bathroom too — you could just tap it with your arm where there’s little chance of piss or shit being on your hands and the risk of germs would go down if you were concerned about that stuff.
Thought that was a nice concept, overall. Especially from the not-having-to-wipe-down-the-faucet-after-you-wash-paint-filled-hands-or-whatever point of view.
PK they already have taps that use sensors to turn them on. Most Irving stations have them among other places.
Our beloved Wal mart has them too!
“it’s pretty rare to see anyone in the women’s washroom who actually washes her hands”… I just love generalized bullshit like this. I mean if forestgreen is a boy it’s sorta comical but, if not, where do broad conclusions like this come from? Oooo, I know, I know! From the depths of a bitches ass.
When I was a kid I visited the mine where my grandfather worked. The common area had a big round sink and what looked like a shower head hanging down in front of each section. The workers would step on a bar underneath the sink and, like magic, the water would flow. I fail to understand why, in a digital age, faucet needs to run the business owner $600+ when a plumber could install a stepping bar for less than $100 and you know who to call if it breaks right? A plumber rather than an electronics wizard. You know what happens when water and electricity get mixed up, right? Just a little food for thought.
More to the bitch though, maybe the OP should just move the garbage closer to the door since the paper towel bothers her so much. Bitching here doesn’t change anything.
Can’t move the garbage, it’s stuck in the wall, right below the paper towel dispenser. And it’s right next to the door, any closer and it’d be stuck IN the door.
And I don’t think many people bitch here with the intent that it’s going to actually change things, kay, it’s just a way of blowing off steam about something that’s bugging you. “Get something off your chest” is how it’s worded at the top of the Bitch page, not “Post here and fix all of your problems!”.
Hey Raph, do I know how to blow steam or what? I’m bitch supreme at the moment… I think I get it. It’s not that the OP is blowing steam it’s what they blow steam about.
To let trivial shit live in your head rent-free for so long your have to write about it is just plain stupid. That’s why I offer a nugget on how to get it out of your head. Fix the problem if you can’t ignore it. This is your life! Think better.
Ahh, so people are only allowed to blow off steam about subjects that you find acceptable? Sorry, wasn’t aware this was “Love the KAY we Bitch”…
Hey, if a dumb blond came on here bitching about her hair colour I wouldn’t be the only one telling them to give their head a shake and get a dye job (duh!). FIX the problem. It’s kinda like walking and chewing gum at the same time… when you’re me. You don’t have to love me for it.
I feel like we might be thinking of the same paper towel litter lady… And the worst part is that there is a convenient hand sanitizer station directly outside of the washroom!! So no excuses for her obvious germ-o-phobe tendencies…!
Hmm, Moose, you might be right. There is a hand sanitizer on our floor.