Who’s Gonna Be Mr. Dirty Hands?

Men's restroom with oddly placed soap dispenser

In the men’s room at a local car dealership, I noted the position of the soap dispenser. It seems to me that the choice of its placement was one of the following options:

(1) A social experiment to force men to communicate with each other in a public restroom. (“Um, pardon me. Okay if I reach across your sink to get a little soap?”)

(2) A science experiment to study the spread of germs in a car dealership where half of men using the restroom don’t use soap when washing their hands.

(3) A human behavior experiment to see how long it would take for the first man to complain about not being able to wash his hands with soap.

2 comments

  1. Seems to me that I see plenty of people use the mens room and skip washing their hands anyway. Maybe this is all the soap they need to cover the throughput. Of course, then why install two sinks?

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