Automatic life.

[pen_grunt]

The airport holds a veritable array of automatic appliances. Auto-flushing toilets, auto-faucets, auto-soaps, auto-towel dispensers, and so on.

Wonderfully convenient, wonderfully fun...save for when they malfunction.

Then the over-powered toilet turns into a bidet, the faucets only work when you're not wearing black clothing (hence, me flashing my belly--the whitest thing I can find--at the sensors), the soap dispenser ejaculates soap at random intervals--soaping up already-cleaned hands, and towel dispensers won't stop dispensing.

It felt a bit like being stuck in Mr. Mom, all told.

Comments

[gwangi.livejournal.com]

I love the automatic toilet-seat-cover dispenser thingy. I mean, I've never actually used it, because I'm a boy, but I do enjoy making it go around and around and around from time to time.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

Oh, I LOVE those! They have them at the Cincinnati airport....

There's just so much that technology can accomplish now days...for instance, continually rotating, pokey, butt plastic. Mmmm...

[llythefaerye.livejournal.com]

*busts out laughing* Please tell me this all happened at the same time, and that you got a really confused look from at least one person when you flashed your belly . . . *gggls*

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

Not ALL at once, no. But the soap and the black-only sensor thing was happening...so I'd finally get the water to turn on (they have signs posted that black clothing might not work...and of course I ALWAYS travel with my black suit jacket) and then my hands would re-soap themselves and I'd have to do it again.

It seemed to make other people giggle.

[llythefaerye.livejournal.com]

*gggls* Admit it, it's good ol'-fashioned slapstick!

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

I should travel with the Benny Hill theme music :)

[llythefaerye.livejournal.com]

Point!

[lisa-e-is-me.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how helpful this entry was for me. I have always been so perplexed about why sometimes the sensors know I'm off the toilet, and sometimes they don't. I'll bet it's because I'm wearing black, or dark clothing, because it definitely happens more in the cold-weather months. I would have never figured that out by myself, but will from now on flash my also-white belly at the little sensor. So educational!

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

Glad I could help! Fortunately, most places have hand sensors for faucets, so the only concern should be the toilets.