By the way, I’m not advocating for removing them entirely. As I said, they help make sure that people don’t have water dripping off their hands everywhere on the floor, so I’m all for them.
But what I find very annoying about hand dryers and something I haven’t figured out yet is why in 90% of places they have only a hand dryer and not paper towels to dry your hands with, or it’s refilled almost never. Is it just other people getting fooled into thinking that hand dryers work and putting it into places thinking “oh it’ll be fine on its own, nobody needs paper towels anyway?” Is it to further perpetuate the lies? Are my hand dryer encounters just particularly unlucky?
Do those hand dryers actually work? I’m 90% they’re just a placebo at this point. By the time I get tired of the sound of the hand dryer, almost none of the water was actually dried! And when I get back to what I was doing? The water dries at the exact same rate it did when I was using the hand dryer! In fact, it might even be faster!
My theory: Hand dryers are only there so that people keep their hands over the sink while water is dripping from them so that it doesn’t go all over the floor.
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Paper towels are wasteful. Dry your hands on your hair if you find hand dryers unsatisfactory. This strategy has the added bonus of letting you reshape your hair on the fly