Don,

Those cute little lights that you wave your hand in front of to get a towel, guess what, amigo. The machine doesn’t care. It will give you a towel if it is in the mood, and if it ain’t, you can suck wind till the cows come home, and you ain’t gonna get a towel!

Maybe I just deal with Texas machines and they, like the rest of Texas, can be contrary.

Don’t go the China Bear Chinese Buffet on 59 S. from Houston to Sugarland and expect the towel dispenser to the right of the sinks to give you a damn thing till it is good and ready! LOL.

I once stopped, in their restroom, to comb my windblown white hair, and my wiggling elbow produced about ten feet of paper towel, because that machine liked my elbow more than my hand.

Gotta love progress and capitalism, but I have to say sometimes we over- think ourselves.

I once read of a genius in California, maybe muirduck, who announced his invention of a toilet seat lifter. It was a mechanical device that when stepped on lifted the lid so that one did have to touch the seat.

I thought, and just what did God give me a toe for, especially when that toe is encased in a boot or sneaker? It is interesting to know that there are people so dull that it never occurs to them to simply use a toe to lift a toilet seat.

God, I love it! And, muirduck thinks it is reasonable that I contribute to those people’s long lives and fertility? Ouch.

Last year, we had them replaced with dual-flush flush valves. Pull up for liquids (uses 1 gallon – same as a urinal) and push down for solids (uses 1.6 gallon). Now days, the handles are even made out of bacteria resistant plastic which is nice.

Usage of dual flush valves is common sense conservation. They are already common in many countries throughout the world where water is more scarce than it is in most parts of America. I am from the west where it seems every year there is a drought so I think that common sense conservation such as this is a good thing.