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Originally Posted by SneakySnake
wow loos are just getting better and better.
The dunnies in Auckland airport automatically flush when you walk away. (I spent ages pressing and pressing that darned button which was really a sensor until I gave up, walked away and flush! And the hand basins turn on and off the taps as you put your hand there! Great!  |
Those have been the norm here in Japan for the past 10-15 years. The idea was that you didn't have to touch something that someone else touched. Some of the more up-scale places have UV lights set into the seat lids to disinfect the seats between uses too!
But isn't this sort of isolating us more and more? What about the bathroom attendants who would smile and hand you a heated hand towel? I sort of miss them. Instead, we get the woman with a mop sloshing it around your shoes as we stand there trying to ignore them and pee!
Stitchawl