Please don't! We need people like you out in this world!
Yes, technology seems to be conspiring against us...those stupid automatic sinks, toilets, doors...what the heck was wrong with handles? I spend 5mins trying to get the sinks to turn on and then walk away discusted only to have the stream rush out and splash me all over...darn, where are the engineers in all of this???
My favorite was a fancy café in Paris on the Champs Elysée...went down to use the washroom and they had installed a newfangled toilet seat.
It had a little box at the back of the seat between the seat and the lid...about the size of 2 boxes of cigarettes...didn't know what it was for...but when I leaned forward to pull stuff out of my purse, it shot forward, kicked me in the butt and the toilet seat started to rotate, effectively ejecting me from the seat and sending me flying into the stall door.
It was supposed to be a 'hygenic, sanitary arm' that held bacteriacide...it would grab the seat and rotate it to disinfect it...instead it nearly killed me.
I went upstairs, wet, bruised and laughing my head off...made my girlfriend go downstairs to pee...(she is a very uptight, hoity-toity Frenchwoman...she came back just screaming in laughter too...we now send our best friendemies to lunch there!)
Sharon