slo’s TUESDAY 1/30 poll - Who remembers using this…….❓

[slo]

One day on Facebook someday shared about using (in the past) the rolling cloth hand dryer in public bathrooms. Immediately I thought - oh yeah….this is definitely a poll

Who remembers the public hand dryer in the picture?
Did you use it?
If yes….did you use it thinking nothing of it, or did you think it was gross?
Have you seen one recently?
(multiple choice)


For Me…..My vote is - I sometimes used it - I thought it was gross, but used it anyway.
I don’t remember the last time I saw one, but I do know I used it. I didn’t think anything of it if the cloth looked clean, but if the cloth looked dirty I’d let my hands air dry. Since I had to examine it, before using it, is why I voted the way I did - down deep I must have thought it was gross or I would have just used it. If I saw one today, there’s no way in heck that I would touch it It’s amazing how at one time, things like this were totally acceptable.

 

[Kitty 34]

........and that's why I'm immuned to many things today!!
Haven't used one in a long time.


(apparently immuned isn't a word in past tense but I'm using it anyway)

 

[WDWEPCOT]

OMG where dud you see one ? i couldn’t say those things when I was a kid they were always wet and icky thought they were so gross nope try not to use those ever

 

[Schneewittchen37]

Yeah I remember. I did use them and didn't think too much about it. It's probably been 15 years or more since I last saw one. It was definitely some random mom and pop type shop out west. Like Wyoming or New Mexico.

 

[slo]

........and that's why I'm immuned to many things today!!
Haven't used one in a long time.


(apparently immuned isn't a word in past tense but I'm using it anyway)

This made me laugh
I have a lot of words I use like that too - I call them Sandyisms

 

[snowwite]

One day on Facebook someday shared about using (in the past) the rolling cloth hand dryer in public bathrooms. Immediately I thought - oh yeah….this is definitely a poll

Who remembers the public hand dryer in the picture?
Did you use it?
If yes….did you use it thinking nothing of it, or did you think it was gross?
Have you seen one recently?
(multiple choice)


For Me…..My vote is - I sometimes used it - I thought it was gross, but used it anyway.
I don’t remember the last time I saw one, but I do know I used it. I didn’t think anything of it if the cloth looked clean, but if the cloth looked dirty I’d let my hands air dry. Since I had to examine it, before using it, is why I voted the way I did - down deep I must have thought it was gross or I would have just used it. If I saw one today, there’s no way in heck that I would touch it It’s amazing how at one time, things like this were totally acceptable.

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We had one in the ladies room at church!

 

[fly girl]

I remember those disgusting things. Trying to pull and get a "clean" piece of cloth and it not budging. They were usually in restrooms that had the pink powdered soap that smelled like AJAX. I love the 80's, but some things can stay there -- this is one of them!

Haven't seen one in forever, thank goodness!

 

[jimmymc]

Usually I at least remember things posted in slo's polls, but I've never seen one of these in the wild.

 

[Wood Nymph]

I remember them. I used them because they were the only option to drying my hands. But if the only section available was wet and dirty, I might not have used it.

 

[tony67]

I've seen them in Ireland pre-covid - so 2018 maybe. Old pubs out in the country. Id guess they are gone now

 

[DisneyHardin]

We had them in the bathrooms at our church my entire life. I moved away from my hometown about 15 years ago - I wonder if they still use them in the church restrooms.

 

[Moliphino]

I just used one in October! It was in the bathroom in a museum in Geneva (Musée d'histoire des sciences).

 

[MamaMermaid]

I remember it and thought it was gross but used it!

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I have never seen one before in all of my almost 56 years on Earth, but it looks like a petri dish.

 

[TCRAIG]

I remember these - I never used them - they were just too ICKY

 

[mumto3girls]

I remember them and am sure I used them once upon a time. It’s been years and that’s a good thing. Yuck!

 

[lovin'fl]

I have seen them. Not often. They are gross. And I refused to use and made do with a tissue in my purse instead.

 

[tvguy]

I remember those, they were popular in restrooms at gas stations and restaurants for some reason as I recall.

Not as gross, however as soda vending machines in the Soviet Union. I took a College class that spent a week in the U.S.S.R. and the soda vending machines had real glass glasses. Actually, the machine had ONE glass. It had a setup where you "rinsed" the glass, put your money in, got your drink, drank it and put the glass back for the next person to rinse and use. EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

 

[soccerdad72]

I remember them - heck, these days, you might as well still have one of those next to the air dryers that they replaced a lot of those with. It's probably about as clean as the pants you end up drying your hands on after using the air dryer

 

[ronandannette]

I remember it and thought it was gross but used it!

Gross or not, what choice did we have? All public washrooms had them. I remember as a little kid, I was very tiny. I must have been six or so before I could reach to dry my hands.