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The hot tap is on the left
Andy Hall wrote:
On 2007-01-18 21:44:14 +0000, "ironer" said: zaax wrote: It's not in the regs., and as far I can see it's worldwide I can confirm (from a sample of many hundred hotels) that hot on the left or in the left direction with a mixer faucet is pretty much universal. It's always been my understanding that it is favoured by hoteliers because most people are right handed & thus less likely to turn on the energy consuming hot tap at their first 'need water' impulse. They have a number of games like this. Another common one is asking customers to re-use towels because of the environmental impact of washing detergents. I have a difficult time believing that that is their true motivation. The most irritating are those with a card operated switch near the door where one needs to insert a card to operate the electricity. This again is sold on an eco basis. I wouldn't mind were it not for the poor implementations. Many of them turn off all the power in the room immediately the card is removed. These are the ones where generally only the room key card works - a business card doesn't do it. It isn't helpful suddenly being plunged into darkness. The more acceptable have a timer that cuts the power about a minute after the card is removed. However, again they excel when the card switch turns off *all* power in the room. I wouldn't mind if it were just the lights, but I would like to charge my notebook, PDA, iPod, iPhone etc. Gadget man! |
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