By the way, I’m not advocating for removing them entirely. As I said, they help make sure that people don’t have water dripping off their hands everywhere on the floor, so I’m all for them.

But what I find very annoying about hand dryers and something I haven’t figured out yet is why in 90% of places they have only a hand dryer and not paper towels to dry your hands with, or it’s refilled almost never. Is it just other people getting fooled into thinking that hand dryers work and putting it into places thinking “oh it’ll be fine on its own, nobody needs paper towels anyway?” Is it to further perpetuate the lies? Are my hand dryer encounters just particularly unlucky?