• uniquely-ironic said on Dec 06, 2007....

  heck, the "other" question might have been more fun.
   
  I usually use 6 pumps on the towel dispenser.  I'm fanatical about getting every inch of my hands dry.

• travelr712 said on Dec 06, 2007....

  unique - hmm, maybe i'll do that post tomorrow? ;-0 and does it take that much paper to dry them adequately? that's a sincere question, not a judgement.

• uniquely-ironic said on Dec 06, 2007....

  I think so. (need that much)  I take the extra minute to dry between my fingers and I wash my hands to and inch or two above the wrists.  The towel seems to be pretty damp/wet when I toss it.

• travelr712 said on Dec 06, 2007....

  well then, i'd say you've adequately used your allotment of hand towel. pat yourself on the back for a job well done :-)

• silverwhisper said on Dec 06, 2007....

  usually i get 2 pieces, and both times i find 2 sufficient. i sorta half-dry with the first piece, and final dry with the second.
  
  ed

• travelr712 said on Dec 06, 2007....

  silver - you are an efficient and frugal man. interestingly enough, when it's individual sheets, i take 3 also.

• evil_twin said on Dec 06, 2007....

  I'm pretty sure you are the first person to ever ask this question. I'm a bit of a paper towel freak. I like to get a huge bundle of it so my hands get really dry without little bits of paper sticking to them. But I don't believe I've ever counted my paper towel pumps. Probably a lot of them. Next time, I'll have to count and let you know :-P
  
  -evil_twin LA
  

• travelr712 said on Dec 06, 2007....

  please do, et, it'll settle an obsession for me :-)

• Suddenrain said on Dec 07, 2007....

  I just blow on my hands to save a couple trees  :-/  LoL

• lfbno7 said on Dec 07, 2007....

  Takes about 2 pumps to get one decent sized paper towel out, and I use 2 paper towels cause I'm a bit of an efficiency expert.

• travelr712 said on Dec 07, 2007....

  sudden - LOL! that's hillarious!
   
  lfb - i guess i kinda fall in line with you on that thought, that's why i set a number of pumps years ago. so that would be 4 for you then?

• stitchedupheart19 said on Dec 07, 2007....

  travelr712: hello again! i must say, when i first read through this post, i had to wonder who wrote this because i thought i was the only one who thought about this stuff. I  mean, when i'm in a public bathroom and this tiny woman takes 10 sheets of papertowel i have to wonder if she realizes what a waste that is? or you get the lovelies who don't take any at all! ew! but to answer your question, 2 is usually a sufficent amount for me, it does depend however on how big the sheets are. If they are larger then maybe just one?

• PassionTraveler said on Dec 07, 2007....

  Like you, 3 times. Consistently.
  
  PT
  

• Mr_Box said on Dec 07, 2007....

  I've never counted. Probably 4 times though. That's a good guess.

   

• Suddenrain said on Dec 10, 2007....

  :-P

• travelr712 said on Dec 10, 2007....

  stitch - hello, and sorry it took me so long to respond, i thought this post was dead. i think of all kinds of wierd stuff, but don't usually write about it. and yeah, the ones that don't at all, ewww! pt - 3 times a charm, right? :-) box - i'm thinking that between 3 and 4 is pretty normal then. god, how'd i end up on the 'normal' scale? sudden :-P right back atcha!

• GracefullyGrowing said on Dec 11, 2007....

  Damnit, Travelr!  It's all your fault!  8~P 
   
  For four days now, every time I go into the washroom I am now "counting" every time either I, or another, "pumps".  It's not only with the paper towels, either. Have you ever considered how many times people pump the soap dispenser?  AHhhhhhh!  LOL
   
  Oh, and by the way, I'm a 4.  (Kinda reminds me of that sleep-number bed thing.  "What's your pump number?")  And from the averages I've now statistically surmised - the average pumps in the ladies room is 5 for paper towels and 3 for soap.
   
  One interesting observation I made . . . when given the choice, most choose pumping over blowing.  Now THAT's surprising. ;~O  LOL
   
  ~Grace~

• travelr712 said on Dec 11, 2007....

  grace - LOL!
   
  and i guess i do have a way of getting inside people's head and sturring it around a bit. sorry for the intrusion. :-)

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