What the hell is wrong with me?
After I got my first car with key fob lock buttons I wanted to walk up to my house front door and unlock it with a remote. After a while I actually bought a deadbolt lock with a key fob unlock.
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I have a fair bit of home automation setup at home. So if I walk into a room the lights turn on, walk out and they turn off.
Every time I am visiting someone or in a hotel I am deeply confused why the lights don’t turn on themselves.
Someone I know recently switched from automatic bathroom lights to manual ones. Remembering to turn them on isn’t an issue, but months later everyone still forgets to turn them off.
I got one of those faucets at home. It takes a while before I remember how to use a normal one when I’m at friends etc…
My workplace has motion sensor-based lights, and I sometimes walk into other rooms with normal light switches and get confused when the lights remain off.
On top of that the faucets at my work are also motion activated, and I end up in the same situation.
Both of my bathrooms have motion sensor switches at home and you have no idea how many times I walk into other bathrooms and stand in the dark before I realize not all bathrooms have motion switches
First world problems…
That would be why I posted this on Mildly Infuriating.
I feel this - I’m renting a house that has a motion sensor built into the kitchen sink. Now when I’m over someone else’s house, i can’t turn on the sink without giving a magical wave first like I’m some kind of wizard displaced in time.
We put one in our kitchen and it took a few weeks for everybody to get used to not using the handle. Now everybody keeps trying to turn on every other faucet by waving lol
A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.
I also did this until we moved out of our house that had one lol. Took a while to break the habit but man I miss that faucet. It was so finicky for others but I loved it
I’ve done that before, I’ve also tried to use my security card to swipe into my house a couple times.
If those automatic faucets actually worked well I would probably have reached this state too. But even in 2023 they seem pretty slow to respond and don’t sense your hands half the time. I hate sitting there like an idiot waving my hand into and out of the sink trying to coax the dipshit faucet into recognizing my existence.
I’m glad I’m not the only one with this issue. Automatic hand dryers are even worse. Those Dyson V-shaped ones NEVER turn on for me no matter what kind of hand dance I try to perform for it.
This happened to me the other day. Soap all over my hands and the sink did nothing. I had to move around to try other sinks, moving around other people. Then some other dude goes to my last sink and it works just fine for him. I guess my hands don’t reflect IR light as much as his?
Are you sure they aren’t the voice activated ones?
Ah so they only work when I start cussing them? That would explain it…
You ever try to pinch zoom on paper?
Samsies
In my early 20s I had a forklift job. Numerous times I’d get in my car and grab the blinker to try and back out of the parking spot.
Happens to me as well
I hate these automated taps. We’re supposed to stick our hands under them and sing happy birthday twice for properly clean hands and well… They are never on long enough for it to clean them.
Honestly hate automated taps, that and the ones that only work if you push to the top down so you have to clean 1 hand at a time.
Unfortunately you can’t trust people with normal twist taps because people suck… But dam do I miss the old cross handles. So easy to nudge it on with the back of your hand. Probably doesn’t help I am a clean freak tbf
