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Boo for wimpy hand dryers

One of the few things I can't stand about the Dog Pub (20 E. Cross St.) in Federal Hill is the hand dryers in their bathrooms.

There are no hand towels -- just these wimpy automatic hand dryers.

How I hate them.

My hands would dry faster if I held them over the bar while the bartender blew on them through a silly straw.

As frequent MS readers well know by now, I'm a man who needs thick paper hand towels or one of the nuclear-powered XLerator hand driers in Ropewalk Tavern or Stalking Horse.

XLerator hand dryers blow the water off your hands and onto the floor. The water doesn't have time to evaporate.

I looooove them.

Everything else falls short.

To the owners of the Dog Pub: Before you open another branch in the 'burbs, toss a little money toward the Baltimore bar to upgrade those terrible horrible no good very bad hand dryers.

(Photo by me)

Posted by Sam Sessa on March 29, 2008 8:00 AM | Permalink

Comments

The Dyson (of vacuum cleaner fame) hand dryers work well too. I ran into them in a mall in Rhode Island and pleasantly surprised.

Mostly I agree with you give me towls not air dryers.

Posted by: Paul | March 29, 2008 2:20 PM

i second the dyson. they actually have them in the inner harbor food court bathrooms.

Posted by: bill | March 31, 2008 1:46 PM

i am curious as to what other things you cant stand about that place????

Posted by: cervezadepero | April 1, 2008 4:25 PM

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I've been The Baltimore Sun's nightlife and local entertainment reporter for a couple years, and it's surprising how much the scene has grown in that time. Most of Baltimore's bars and clubs are unpretentious places with fairly cheap drinks and plenty of character. I like dancing and think this city needs more clubs, but nothing beats having a cold, locally brewed beer with friends in a comfortably full corner bar.