A Coherent Complaint
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Alright, for years now there has been one thing that angers me at restaurants the most. It is not lazy staff, bad food, food poisoning, table positioning, bugs, or any of the normal stuff you think about. The thing that infuriates me the most is the water faucet. Not because 89% of people do not use it after going to the restroom, but because it is the most dysfunctional device ever built. Everywhere but restaurants faucets are installed perfectly fine. I could walk into the nastiest chevron in my town and the faucets there are perfectly functional, but as soon as I walk into a restroom at a restaurant the things have multiple issues. Let's flesh these issues out now.
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Issue #1: Water pressure: In my experience these faucets only have 2 types of pressure, jet engine and dried up stream.
Jet engine faucets may not seem like a problem, but as soon as you stick your hand in the jet propelled water it goes everywhere. All I wanted was to wash my hands but now I look like I just got back from Splash Town. And when I say the water goes everywhere, I mean everywhere. I've actually had a friend tell me I had water marks on my back.
Normal offenders: steak houses, fancy restaurants, food courts, chain restaurants.Dried up stream faucets are those faucets where the water comes out at a trickle at best. This again may seem like a small issue, but my ability to wash the soap off of my hands is seriously impaired due to the lack of water pressure. What is worse is the places where this problem is a normal occurrence are usually the places where you want to feel cleanest.
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These dingy bars, hole in the wall fooderies, and other less reputable places of meals usually have the types of restrooms that look like several births, murders, and other shady things have gone down there. Seriously, just walking in these restrooms gives you a 40% higher chance of getting STDs and the faucet is never able to get my hands clean enough. So, as a general rule for these places, if your "movements" have a higher velocity than your faucets, get your faucet fixed.
Normal offenders: aforementioned places and all pizza places.
Summary: It really cant be that hard to get an acceptable pressure area. I Cannot believe that you have no water pressure considering you have to use water for cooking almost anything. -
(this is going to take awhile to write, I really hate these things)
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This is hilarious keep going😹
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I agree with everything in this thread. Crummy water faucets are something I completely and utterly despise. I especially hate the ones that have the sensor that never works, and when it does you are in a position that makes the spray from the over powered flow of water make it look like a car splashed water all over you and makes you look like a fool, and often in a formal location, or a fancy restaurant.
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Issue #2: Activation devices(handles, buttons, motion detection, ect.).
Handles- Handles by observation are one of the most useless devices on a water faucet ever conceived by man. Think about the pitch meeting. Hey man, we are going to use 2 levers to turn the faucet on and off, and after you are done washing your hands, you have to touch the handle that you touched with your previously dirty hands. It is perfect. Besides that glaring design flaw, all restaurant faucet handles are either, rusted, the heat control doesn't work, the handle has to be moved excessively, or are dirty beyond reason. This ruins any good faucet. However, all of these flaws pale in comparison to the button. -
The button retains all of the handle's previous flaws, but also adds to it by restraining your hands washing time to 3 and 1/2 seconds. What porcelain god decided that was enough time to properly wash your hands. Also, if you do not manage to finish washing your hands in time, you have to press the button again, thus ruining all previous washing. Compounding this problem is the fact that in restaurants, all the buttons pop up so much faster than their counterparts in other industries.
Sensor activated faucets I would not have a problem with except for the fact that in 75% of restaurants you they are malfunctioning. This includes but is not limited to stopping randomly, being excessively hard to activate, not activating at all, and drowning the bathroom because some kid put a piece of paper in front of it. Yes, that really happened. -
Issue #3: height of the faucet to the basin.
Alright, this is such a common problem that I think carpenters are conspiring against us. In about half of the bathrooms, there is not enough room for adequate hand washing. I believe this is caused by the same people who install urinals that are 1/2 foot off the ground. They had children in mind, but they forgot the product also had to function for adults. Basicly the problem is that your hand keeps hitting the bottom of the sink as you are washing your hands. This is not the biggest problem but it Is really inconvientent.
Issue #4: the fountain head is too short.
This is similar to Issue 3, but in this case the fountain head is so close to the edge of the basin that your hands are practically bumping the edge of the basin, which of course is inexplicably dirtier than satan's toilet bowl. Which brings me to issue #5. -
Issue #5: The Water itself.
Dear god, if I had a nickel for every time I felt dirtier after washing my hands in the bathroom, I would be substantially more well off now than beforehand. But seriously, I have seen fucking purple water come out of those faucets. Purple. While that isn't the most common color, yellow sure is. I fear for my safety every time I see that yellow water because logically, that is the same water being used to wash the meat I will be eating shortly. I know it isn't the water provider's fault because I get the same water at my house, but through some wizardry, when it comes through their faucet, it turns colors. It either means that their pipes are as pitiful as the water pressure I earlier mentioned or the faucet is haunted. I'm not sure what I would prefer to be the case. -
Oh my god this is so funny! LOL!
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I agree!
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Issue #6-Diameter of the water.
This again isn't as huge in issue but can ruin an otherwise suitable faucet. The worst faucet I ever met with was a faucet that had an insanely thick diameter of water coming from the faucet. In fact, due to this, it acted like the high pressure faucet mentioned before but was do much worse. Because of this faucet, I had a wet spot the size of one of those personal pizzas on my pants. This was at school. I was teased. Anyways, extremely thin faucets can be a problem too. Imagine the lab faucets at college and high school and just put that in a dingy restaurant bathroom. It's either insufficient to wash your hands or gets water everywhere. Is it that hard to understand to make and upkeep an adequately sized nozzle? -
Bad bean, you have out done yourself! (again 👌)
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Issue #7- WTFs
Where are The Faucets? Seriously, I have walked into countless bathrooms where the 1 or more of the faucets are either missing or broken. What type of vandal steals a faucet? They aren't valuable you know. Most are made from either cheap aluminum or at best brass or steel. Is it one of the home improvement thieves? Gnomes? Did a disgruntled employee go hulk on one? If so you would think the basin would be missing to, but I digress. The broken ones infuriate me more. I am always the good semeriton who reports that the faucet is broken and I always get one of 2 reactions. The employee either disregards what I said because he has hear it "a million times."(in which case fix the damn faucet) or the employee begrudgingly says that he will report it, but it is clear I am only inconviencing him. This also forces the awkward line at the faucet, which invariably leads to odd eye contact and side stepping. -
How many do you think he's going to come up with?
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Issue #8- Items at the bottom of the basin.
Who spits gum into the basin? Who leaves a bandaid in there? Cigerattes. Condoms. Vomit. All of these I have seen at restaurant restrooms! Excuse me, but there is quite literally multiple other more suited places for these things. Such as the trash can, toilet, urinal, outside of the restaurant, or literally any other place but the place that is supposed to be a cleansing area. I repeat there is a damn trash can 3 feet from your current location. These things combined with a Low basin to faucet height, high pressure, or splashing, makes the whole damn hand washing area unusable. And even if you do use it, you are probably getting bacteria from these items from the splash back. Nasty inconsiderate bastards. -
Something tells me Bad Bean works for Purell.
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Issue #9- Awkward placement
Have you ever been to one of those restaurants where it seems like everything was designed by the maze for 5 year olds creator. Basicly a place where you have to take a certain path to get back to your table. Well the same people designed this type of restroom where you either are being hit in the back when you are washing your hands, making eye contact with someone at the urinal through no fault of your own, or you have to make hysterically sharp turns to exit. I have had to apologize on many occasions to people because when I opened the door to either the stall or bathroom itself I hit them in the back while they are washing their hands. Afterwards, I realized that it is in fact not my fault but it is the architect's fault. I bet the guy or girl that designed it is meniacly laughing in some form of cave dwelling at the thought that he or she is causing such horrible awkwardness. -
These are all so true.
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Not done... just resting my anger.
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Why so you guys find this funny?
These are serious issues! -
Just woke up to dreams of angry leus.
Issue #10- Soap or lack there of
Always in restaurant bathrooms there is some form of decrepit soap dispenser that clearly has received little love over the years. Exposed bags, chipped exteriors, malfunctioning buttons/motion detection all show the owner of the establishment gives little to no care to the cleaniliness of his employees. This ignores the fact the 9 times out of 10 the soap is completely empty. What's worse is the damn motion activation sensors never dispense the soap in anybody's hand. You end up with a depressing area of soapy table because the dispenser was made by 2 year olds. -
I don't like weak air hand driers😡
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You my friend are my hero. 👍👏👏👏👏
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I think I'm going to stop at 10 but I was going to talk about drying contraptions, the mirrors, and the door handle(somebody mentioned it but deleted their comment).
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I love Dyson hand dryers. Super turbo power. Wet hands reduced to merely moist in five
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sadsam wrote:
Are you referring to those awesome hand dryers you can find in Sams. The ones where you stick your hands in and slowly pull them out with a knife like jet of air blasting the water off. Those are the best things ever invented.I love Dyson hand dryers. Super turbo power. Wet hands reduced to merely moist in five
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🔰࿈Ᏸลอ🔥Ᏸεαη࿈🔰 wrote:
like putting your hands up a hooversadsam wrote:
Are you referring to those awesome hand dryers you can find in Sams. The ones where you stick your hands in and slowly pull them out with a knife like jet of air blasting the water off. Those are the best things ever invented.I love Dyson hand dryers. Super turbo power. Wet hands reduced to merely moist in five
seconds. -
🔰࿈Ᏸลอ🔥Ᏸεαη࿈🔰 wrote:
Actually, under frequent use, they become unsanitary. But I do like them- I have one in my office and they have them in the airports in Germany.sadsam wrote:
Are you referring to those awesome hand dryers you can find in Sams. The ones where you stick your hands in and slowly pull them out with a knife like jet of air blasting the water off. Those are the best things ever invented.I love Dyson hand dryers. Super turbo power. Wet hands reduced to merely moist in five
seconds. -
Personally I think it is all a conspiracy. Restaurants make money from you eating. The quicker you eat and get out the quicker someone can else can fill your table. If people rush their bathroom experience or avoid it they will finish their meal faster and be out quicker. Remember they don't get paid for you going to the toilet....
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