The push-button style hand-dryers often found in
public restrooms have a small metal
plaque with three
instructions:
- Push Button
- Rub hands gently under warm air
- Stops automatically
There is a common method of
vandalising this plaque with a few variations. The vandalism is usually done by scratching out letters in existing words or
etching new words into the metal plaque.
Instruction 1 is most often modified to say:
1. Push Butt
although you will occasionally run across this version:
1. Pus Butt
Instruction 2 almost always becomes:
2. Rub gent under arm
If instruction three is modified it will usually be:
3. Stop auto
although this instruction is often left intact.
The largest variation is in the steps scratched into the plaque after the original three. A popular modification is to add:
4. Wipe hands on pants
I have even seen (on more than one occasion) this step:
5. Shit your pants