Did those nasty public bathroom drying towel loop things really exist, or was it just some personal nightmare of mine?
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Did those nasty public bathroom drying towel loop things really exist, or was it just some personal nightmare of mine?
They were real! I discovered one in a bar maybe 20 years ago. At the time I wondered whether it was better or worse to wash my hands.
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@Jes I can see there being issues with it not being sanitized correctly.
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Did those nasty public bathroom drying towel loop things really exist, or was it just some personal nightmare of mine?
oh no. they existed in all their unsanitary dirt/stains.
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Did those nasty public bathroom drying towel loop things really exist, or was it just some personal nightmare of mine?
You can still find some of those out there.
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Did those nasty public bathroom drying towel loop things really exist, or was it just some personal nightmare of mine?
I remember having those in my elementary school. Never saw them anywhere else
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@jbaggs I don't see a problem with it in a home setting. it would definitely be more sanitary than a towel over a loop IMO
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@jbaggs and I have to be real, if it wasn't sanitized correctly, then most hotels would also be unsanitary tbf
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@catsalad i used them on the washington state ferries as a child
@catsalad when you yank on the cloth it dispenses like 50cm of fresh towel, nbd
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Did those nasty public bathroom drying towel loop things really exist, or was it just some personal nightmare of mine?
@catsalad Oh, the ones that were always already damp when you went to use them?
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Did those nasty public bathroom drying towel loop things really exist, or was it just some personal nightmare of mine?
@catsalad I always quite liked them?
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Did those nasty public bathroom drying towel loop things really exist, or was it just some personal nightmare of mine?
@catsalad Unfortunately they are real.
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Did those nasty public bathroom drying towel loop things really exist, or was it just some personal nightmare of mine?
@catsalad
Some went from a spool to a roller and then got washed, so were OK, but I was at a campsite once with two ordinary towels stitched together around a couple of towel racks... -
Did those nasty public bathroom drying towel loop things really exist, or was it just some personal nightmare of mine?
@catsalad og doomscrolling
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@catsalad It's a treadmill for bacteria! (They don't actually loop.)
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Did those nasty public bathroom drying towel loop things really exist, or was it just some personal nightmare of mine?
@catsalad I HAVE SEEN ONE sorry for caps. I was at the banquet for my neighbor's firstborn in Chinatown and the restroom, which was of course in the basement, had the cloth loop hand towel thing. It looked exactly like the one with the paper towel roll inside, but it had this cursed loop of white terrycloth with a blue stripe in the center.
*edit: I forget if it had a lever to advance or if you were supposed to pull the towel
I declined to use this thing
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Did those nasty public bathroom drying towel loop things really exist, or was it just some personal nightmare of mine?
@catsalad folx got really worked up when I'd blow my nose on them
Like, they go through the magic box, it's fiiine...
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@catsalad folx got really worked up when I'd blow my nose on them
Like, they go through the magic box, it's fiiine...
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@catsalad folx got really worked up when I'd blow my nose on them
Like, they go through the magic box, it's fiiine...
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Did those nasty public bathroom drying towel loop things really exist, or was it just some personal nightmare of mine?
Several folk here have said they weren't a looping towel.
Some of them.
As a child and teenager, I specifically remember them as being damp already. So yes, nasty.
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@emily_rugburn that's gotta be a truck-stop euphemism...
