So, apparently this is a thing.
At a service station in the U.K., as Kerrie from London noticed, personal safety is the justification.
At a University in Florida, it’s cleanliness.
Meanwhile, in Canada…
related: Nobody likes electric hand dryers (except for ZOMG the Dyson Airblade!!!)
57 responses so far ↓
#1
Flaboy24225
Note 1: Worry Wart.
Note2: Fire the janitor
Note 3: Fire the stock clerk
May 2, 2010 at 10:53 pm rating: 8
#2
The Great Joe Bivins
But don’t use someone else’s pants, that can get you into trouble. Ask any Republican congressman.
May 2, 2010 at 11:04 pm rating: 39
#3
Hypothetical
Note 2…
Where to begin.
Paper is biodegradable. These days everytime a tree gets cut down, another gets planted.
Oh, wait, I am trying to make sense to Dumocrats….carry on.
May 3, 2010 at 12:19 am rating: 13
#4
Bcteagirl
That’s not water on the floor….
May 3, 2010 at 1:05 am rating: 20
#5
Blogmella
You shake your wet hands onto the floor and moments later somebody falls over? I can’t really imagine that working, unless you live in a cartoon.
May 3, 2010 at 1:59 am rating: 36
#6
humberthumbert
oh, don’t worry, i do use my pants… but only when i’m not using the appropriate panties…
May 3, 2010 at 2:12 am rating: 2
#7
infant tyrone
Use pants to dry hands ?
So, I should breathe rapidly and shallowly to dry my hands ?
OK…but if my asthma kicks in, I’m taking the elevator down.
May 3, 2010 at 2:30 am rating: 31
#8
TippingCows
Why even give the bathroom patron something with which to dry their hands?
They’re lucky we provide sinks, dammit.
EVERYone should use their pants starting RIGHT NOW.
May 3, 2010 at 3:54 am rating: 3
#9
H for Toy
I’m not too worried about it. I always shake my hands on the floor very carefully.
May 3, 2010 at 7:02 am rating: 7
#10
Escape Goat
Lovin’ the use of “and” in note #2. The voice takes on the persona of a crying 8-yr-old:
Instead of shaking your hands and water falling on the floor and people slipping and, mommy, they made bad wet and it’s unsafe and (whimper) and .. and … and …
May 3, 2010 at 7:47 am rating: 7
#11
jaywalke
Save the environment. Kill a student.
May 3, 2010 at 8:14 am rating: 17
#12
ClearlyDemented
The first note is such a circular gallimaufry of cause and effect that it may possibly open up a wormhole to another dimension if read out loud, due to the careless writing.
May 3, 2010 at 8:23 am rating: 8
#13
Dyson
Dyson Airblade is a rip-off of Mitsubishi Jet Towel pass it on
May 3, 2010 at 9:09 am rating: 7
#14
JJ Funk
I think I saw that 2nd note at USF…
May 3, 2010 at 10:02 am rating: 1
#15
dollbones
But I always use my pants.
Unless I’m wearing a skirt.
Or shorts.
(I never wear skorts.)
May 3, 2010 at 10:41 am rating: 6
#16
park rose
What note one doesn’t say is: At a service station in the U.K. for lepers.
“It’s just a flesh wound, truly, truly. . . no, no, not my flesh. A wound caused by bits of other people’s flesh, if you get my drift . . . it gets slippery when everyone shakes their appendages onto the floor.”
May 3, 2010 at 11:44 am rating: 4
#17
Edwina the Defrocked Nun
Apparently, this is a thing …A retired friend who has done janitorial work for some extra income tells me that men/boys flick their wet hands at the mirror, while this is virtually never the case in the women’s/girls’ rooms.
May 3, 2010 at 12:01 pm rating: 1
#18
shwonline
Sing it if you know it:
Please
Do not (not!)
Shake your wet hands onto the ground
As this
May cause (cause!)
Someone to slip and fall
May 3, 2010 at 1:00 pm rating: 3
#19
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Ironically enough, if you end up using paper towels you’ll end up not having trees anyway
May 3, 2010 at 2:10 pm rating: 0
#20
Denny DelVecchio
I’ve always looked at it as keeping loggers employed.
Anything for the economy.
May 3, 2010 at 5:42 pm rating: 1
#21
Woman on the Verge
First note translated:
LISTEN UP, ASSHOLES
DON’T SPLASH WATER ALL OVER THE DAMN
FLOOR BECAUSE SOME JACKASS WILL STAGE A FALL AND PURPOSELY HURT THEMSELVES SO THEY CAN SUE MY ASS ALL BECAUSE YOU CAN’T WIPE YOUR HANDS ON YOUR DAMN PANTS
May 3, 2010 at 6:35 pm rating: 10
#22
kowkow
I used to splash water on the floor all the time because I hated the bitches who lived on my floor. They deserved to slip and fall.
May 3, 2010 at 7:05 pm rating: 2
#23
Canthz_B
Dear Staff,
We pay your lazy ass to keep the floor a lot cleaner.
Stop bitching and grab your mop before you have to grab your pink slip!
Signed.
Stop raising my tuition to employ annoying staff members.
May 4, 2010 at 12:45 am rating: 4
#24
Rob
This sounds like a big joke but I’ve witnessed a guy shaking his hands into a bathroom floor while standing next to the hand drier. I just thought that guy was a moron and never would have imagined it was so widespread a problem.
May 4, 2010 at 5:55 am rating: 1
#25
Woman on the Verge
Is anyone else worried about all those fools with their pants on the ground?
May 4, 2010 at 1:43 pm rating: 2
#26
Xenobiologista
Here in Singapore the National Environment Agency prints posters with illustrative cartoons to ask people not to shake their wet hands over the floor. It’s the Nanny State, no kidding. Yet public toilet operators still get away with putting out bottles of diluted dish detergent for “hand soap”.
May 4, 2010 at 8:30 pm rating: 1
#27
Bruce
Sure, some things (don’t pee in the freaking trash can!) should go without saying. But if you’re gonna say it, wouldn’t this be the time for absolute clarity? In this situation, the directive “behind the salad bar” seems dangerously vague.
Oh, and did I mention that Jenna in Kansas spotted this notice at a local “salad bar/tanning salon”? [...]
May 19, 2010 at 3:50 am rating: 0
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