Kindergarteners can flush and wash their hands, why can't executives?

This has been boggling my mind for years, now. It's interesting and rather disgusting to see the bathroom behavior of many adults in the workplace. Is flushing the toilet really going to make you late for an important meeting? If the client you're meeting with had a choice, do you think they would rather shake your unwashed hand, or have you arrive in the conference room 30 seconds later? I just don't understand.

Yesterday, as I was leaving the bathroom, I saw 2 unflushed urinals. It took me less than 2 seconds to flush them both, on my way out the door. I suppose that someone else's 1 second must be much more valuable than mine, though. Why should they have to do it? Someone else will definitely do it eventually, right?

Sometimes, even if I'm standing there washing my hands, I still see people not flush and/or not wash their hands. If I was going to be lazy and follow the above-mentioned motto: "Someone else will definitely do it eventually," I would at least make sure nobody was looking!

The reason the title of this post mentions executives is because all kinds of people exhibit this behavior. From maintenance guys, to interns, to all levels of management... My 6-year-old has flushed and washed his hands for years, now. Why can't they?! I've witnessed two different CEO's over the past 7 years (at different companies, not my current employer!) blatantly skip the handwashing, despite the presence of myself and sometimes other people as well. Have they no shame? Are they intentionally trying to show us lowly workers that they are much too important/busy to deal with such petty tasks?

These people are the reason I feel compelled to flush with my foot, and open doors with a paper towel. But mysophobia is a whole can of worms in and of itself, so I'll save that for another day.

Nissan Altima remote/key fob - how to make it not honk!

I bought a 2005 Nissan Altima a few months ago, and although I am happy with it overall, there are some things that really irk me. I finally figured out how to avoid one of them, after all this time.

I like it just fine when I lock my van (2001 Toyota Sienna) with the remote. It gives a gentle 'beep' to let me know that it heard me and locked itself. The Nissan, though, lets out a loud 'HONK' of the horn, which annoys me every single time I lock it (especially late at night or early in the morning).

But, I always lock my vehicles from the outside, with the remote. It's how I always avoid locking my keys in my car. Can't lock them in the car if they're in my hand, outside of the car, when I lock it.

Well, yesterday I accidentally found a workaround for the 'HONK'. All I have to do his push the lock button on the remote while the door is still open. No beep, no honk. Just the quiet click of doors locking. As long as I always still lock it from the outside, with the remote, just before closing the door, I will hopefully still avoid locking my keys in the car.

I hope this proves useful to someone else. I wish I'd known sooner. I'll post some other of my pet peeves about my Nissan Altima soon, in the hopes that someone might have a solution/workaround, or at least to vent/get it out of my system.

Need to start blogging regularly

I keep kicking myself every day for not posting anything on here... I've been meaning to for a couple weeks, at least. Every day I have something that makes me think to myself, "I should blog this," but then I don't. So, today I'm blogging about how I need to start blogging, in the hopes that it will start a trend.

This will probably consist of short and simple daily posts, about things that I like, and things that I don't like.

So, uhh.. stay tuned or something.