Thursday, January 5, 2012
Bucket List #17 The Lav.
I don't care for public restrooms, and as J knows all to well, I will drive across town just to return home so I can use my own. The very thought of using an airplane lavatory makes me want to bleach something. Luckily I have never been in a position, or I guess sadly on a long enough flight, that I have needed to enter one. I decided it was a phobia I would face in honor of my bucket list. I did forgo the use of the latrine, but I entered and wash my hands. I was impressed with the creative use of such a small space, and the way so many amenities were arranged to fit. In fact, it set me to wondering why airplanes can be designed so carefully, but the feet on my standard bed frame can't be put where I won't stub my toes on them. Or why the butter compartment on refrigerators can't be regulated so that butter isn't transformed to a substance that when attempted to be spread on bread, makes it look like we hire a blind two-year-old to do the job. I guess it just proves that as advanced as we are, design and ergonomics still have a way to go. Until "they" come up with a self-sterilizing bathroom, I think will continue to -err- save it, and forgo the convenience of using the same 31"x31"x6' space (actual detentions at the largest part of the lav of the Q400 I was on... Thank you very much J) with 75+ trapped dirty, sick, over-hydrated, and sometimes inebriated passengers.
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Those Bombardiers do use their bathroom space creatively! How about the non-alcohol hand-sanitizer? Did they actually have a sink with running water? I was on a tiny plane (I thought the Q400's were the smallest I'd ever been on...) that didn't have a sink, just the hand-sanitizer and oh my kill me. It was awful! It did NOT evaporate like the alcohol kinds do, so it was like smearing nasty handsoap on my hands then leaving it there. You can imagine my texture OCD was very put-out.
And supposedly somewhere in San Francisco they have self-washing public restrooms. You pay to use them, and then when you're done, they wash themselves down. (I think it was to stop homeless people from sleeping in them...then again, that could be something like the sound so the deaf peole know the tape is over...)
The one I used had water and really wasn't bad. If I had anosmia I might have even used the toilet just to see how it worked, but I couldn't bring myself to even lift the lit. And I think I heard about the self cleaning bathrooms. Here is a youtube I found.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us5MMi_rguA
Looks a bit wasteful, and it would drive me crazy if everything didn't get totally dry. Also, shouldn't the toilet clean it's self before the seat it cleaned? I would hate to be in a long line waiting for this one as well.
So funny! Actually saw a "Home Improvment" once where Tim-the-tool-man-Taylor built a bathroom for his wife that sealed off and washed itself like a dishwasher. Funny!
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