Garage facilities

[pbj]

It's finally fall.  Soon 104 degrees and swamp ass in my Houston garage will be a distant memory.  Since I'll soon be living in the garage, I might as well make it more livable.  I've already got a beer fridge and CRT target for when Tony Romo throws an interception, but how to reduce trips inside the house?

Well, first we need a urinal.  That's easy.  But serious business occasionally happens.  What do we do for a thunder bucket?  Then it hits me.



Funnel with a hose running out of the wall for number 1, empty coffee cans for number 2.  Excuse the poor image quality.

But it still lacks something.  We have to keep it sanitary.  Then I find the best dumpster dive treasure yet:



 

[Louis Tully]

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[pbj]

Umm... Just use the facilities inside your house. You're not camping.

With me - it's all camp.

[Le Chuck]

I like how the drainage tube is inside the funnel so half the recycled beer will run all over your shoes hillbilly feet.  Did you at least tape it?  Also, Jimbo, from what I know of you, that coffee can will NOT cut the mustard as you are probably the most full of ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- internet friend I know. 

Just do what I do, close the garage door, open the interior door, and crank the AC. 

[PL1]

Reminds me of a noob Navy pilot at a training squadron in California.

After landing, the new ensign wrote up this complaint about an A-7 that he had just finished flying, "Pilot relief tube too short."

(The pilot relief tube is a device that allows a male pilot to relieve himself in flight if he's had a little too much coffee before climbing into the cockpit.)

When Maintenance investigated the squawk, they found that the relief tube was tangled around the base of the stick. After correcting the problem, they gave the pilot's chain (and probably his ego) a good yank by signing off the maintenance form like this:

"Pilot relief tube found to be of sufficient length for enlisted personnel."   


Scott

[yotsuya]

Umm... Just use the facilities inside your house. You're not camping.

With me - it's all camp.

[pbj]

There is very little leakage around the drainage tube.

I do not (regularly) crap in coffee cans.  That was comedic effect.

The towel dispenser had all the chuckles of a condom machine combined with "married men could actually dream of using this" practicality. Now I can operate the things better than 99% of janitors.

 

[johnrt]

"This is not the towel dispenser you're looking for!"

[SavannahLion]

We have similar ones at my old job. When maintenance installed them, they wouldn't work for about a month. The staff took to leaving the towel rolls on the counter until they could work out the problem.

 Curiosity got the better of a couple of us and we opened it up.... hey if the dispensers were busted, who cares?

I filched a battery pack from supplies and left it with a note on the dispenser.  Maintenance got the hint.

[pbj]

I was shocked to discover these ran off C batteries.  I figured I'd be cutting into the wall for power.  I also learned about how to shove the remainder roll onto the bottom spool and dual load these things.  So, I, too now know more than my janitors.

 

[Unstupid]

I've already got a beer fridge and CRT target for when Tony Romo throws an interception,

So you must have been making plenty if trips to the beer fridge yesterday!  Did you pass out before halftime?

[SlammedNiss]

"This is not the towel dispenser you're looking for!"

I know this isn't reddit, but I seriously wish there was a way to upvote this post.

[Rick]

I know this isn't reddit, but I seriously wish there was a way to upvote this post.

What do you mean? There isn't?

[pbj]

So, on a more helpful note, I've learned that these things are extraordinarily easy and quick to adjust.  You can make it always dangle a towel, decrease time between dispenses, and all that.  But, most importantly, you can change the length of the towel dispensed.

To get into these, you can just shove a paperclip in the 'keyhole' and twist it.  Look on the right hand side of the unit and you'll see a bunch of slider switches.



Flip that paper length one to L and you're good to go.  Do not tolerate short paper towels in the restrooms you haunt ever again.