user experience
Thought: Scented hand soap
First, I have to apologize for the delay between postings. There has been some travel madness as well as moving madness.
I spent a good portion of the last week traveling back and forth between Indiana and South Carolina. As a result of all this time on the road, I ended up eating out several times a time. Typically when I get to a restaurant, one of the first things I do is go and wash my hands. This is especially true if I have been traveling. I don’t know what it is about traveling that makes you feel extra grimey. Has anyone else noticed this? Anyway, I end up going through my normal hand washing routine at some stop along the way. While washing my hands I noticed that the soap had a somewhat disagreeable smell, but there was no other option for cleaning up. I suppose I could have asked the wait staff for a lemon and washed up with a lemon and some salt (which makes for a nice bath scrub by the way). I go back to my table and shortly thereafter my food arrives. I had ordered a sandwich. Here is where the problem arises. Now every time I go to take a bite of my sandwich, I get the smell and taste of that horrible chemical scrub. What were they thinking? Eating out is all about the user experience, but somehow restaurants rarely seem to get it right. I love eating out but I am hardly ever pleased. Maybe what I really love is punishing myself.
Meta observation: The bathroom seems to be the location of many of my observations, some of which I have yet to write about. Maybe I need to be a bathroom designer. Anyone need some advice on such a matter?