When Technology Goes Wrong

Tonight was Mazie's dance recital at the high school.  Last night was the dress rehearsal in the same place-- the high school auditorium.  Of course, both nights I had to use the bathroom while I was there.  The new high school has automatically flushing toilets.

Now, I'm all for technological advances, but this one bugs me to no end.  First of all, if there are toilet seat covers and you put one on the toilet, the movement sets off the sensor.  FLUSH!  Then you do your business and when you move to wipe, FLUSH!  Finally, you stand up and pull up your pants, and wait.... no flush.  Who invented these sensors anyway?  Is it so hard to flush a toilet that we have to have one that flushes itself?  So, I'm standing there waving my hand in front of the sensor now that the toilet actually needs to flush, and I have to push the microscopic back-up flushing button because the toilet, which thinks it knows when to flush, really doesn't. 

I liked the old, kick-flush toilets.  I know you were probably supposed to flush those with your hand, but nobody did, right?  The foot flush was more satisfying.  Even though you were going to go right out and wash, you didn't want to touch the public toilet flusher.  Now I cringe when I go into the stall and I don't see one of those big flushers.  Instead is the evil red dot on the back of the toilet trying to catch me wiggling and flushing too early. 

I'm all for automatic sinks and paper towel holders.  They seem to work just fine.  In one hotel lobby bathroom I was in recently, the sinks had automatic soap dispensers.  It was a nice idea, but like the toilet, faulty in execution.  I put my hand under the soap dispenser, and soap poured out.  It was hung over the sink, so any excess went into the sink.  That was a good idea.  However, when I rubbed my hands together and rinsed under the water, the soap dispenser kept spitting soap.  Motion, soap.  Motion, soap.  I'm sure they went through twice as much soap as they would have if they just let people pump their own.

If technology makes a job, like flushing the toilet and dispensing soap, harder than it actually is manually, where is the sense in it?  It's probably just me.  Doesn't this bother anyone else???


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