Thursday, January 01, 2009

Things that make you go hmmmm

I was in a bathroom in a restaurant in Canada. Big sign on the mirror stating all employees must wash their hands before returning to work (gee thanks.... I feel much better knowing you need to remind your employees of that?!?!?!).

The bathroom itself was apparently designed to be relatively sanitary. Touch-free automatic flushers. Automatic water. Automatic soap dispenser. Even the automatic paper-towel dispenser!!

Only catch? To get out of the bathroom, you have to pull the door towards you. Meaning you just got a handful of all those people who DIDN'T wash their hands afterwards.

And for those of you (like me) who use a paper towel on the handle? No trash can anywhere near to drop it into.

I don't get it.

I also don't get the commercials I see for souvenir coins on TV. You know the ones - struck in real Liberian dollars! The $20 9/11 version we just saw "normally sells to collectors for $39.95, but can be yours today at the face value of only $20! Limit 5 per collector."

Which leads me to ask..... if I can have it at face value, shouldn't that be in Liberian dollars? Checking today's exchange rate, $20 Liberian dollars is worth approximate 31.5 US cents............. If I send them face value, think they'll send me a coin?