This is what one looks like, in case you haven’t seen them:

In theory, it is supposed to save billions of dollars worldwide in water costs, not to mention help conserve water.

And it’s quite possible that maybe these automatic faucets do indeed save a lot of water. After all, every time I try to use one to wash my hands, guess what? No water comes out of it. Unless, of course, I drop my purse or something else I don’t want to get all wet. Sure, then it will work quite well and completely soaking everything in its path.

It’s not that I’m against conserving water or anything like that. But it aggravates the heck out of me when I have to stand there for five minutes waving my hands around like an idiot to get water to come out.

So, the automatic faucet belongs in the stupid invention category

Yesterday I spent about a half an hour on hold on the phone.

You know how anytime you call someplace they say “This call will be monitored and recorded?”

What would they do if YOU told them you were monitoring and recording the call?

“I just wanted to let you know this call will be monitored and recorded for training purposes. See, we have kids and no doubt someday you’ll screw them over and we want to have this documented so we can teach them how to fight with you over the phone.”

My second pet peeve about waiting on hold on the phone is the automated menus. It wastes an awful lot of time.

Is there really any need for them to say “Please listen carefully as we recently changed our menu options”?

Do people really memorize their menu options? Do you really have a need to call any company so much that you’re storing useless information in your head like “Press 1 Before They Tell You What it is! Press 1! Quick! Before she tells you who Option 1 is for!” ?

What do you think about these kind of calls?

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