You Need Hand Towels in Your Bathroom. People who dont have hand towels in your bathrooms What do you think your guests dry their hands on Do you expect us to use your bath towels Do you think we know which part of the towel you use for your face, or your own handsOr do you know that we might grab the part of the towel you rubbed all over your ass Do you want us to flail our hands wildly in the air, sprinkling water all over your bathroom Do you want us to commandeer your shower curtain or your toilet paper or our own pants Do you think we just dont wash our handsDo you realize the chaos youre causing The shame, confusion, and sense of betrayalThe mass panic taking place in your bathroom every time you host a party A bath towel is used in the nude it is applied to your intimate places. A guest rubbing their hands on it is groping a ghost of your freshly showered morning self. If you dont want hand towels for yourself, thats your prerogative. Youre just swapping your cooties and your dead skin flakes back and forth on your own body. Some of you may wait until your towels smell funky to wash them. As it turns out, its betterRead more Read. But forcing your guests to use your bath towels, which were last washed god knows when, conveys a carelessness bordering on hostility that you definitely didnt intend. It should be a move reserved for movie villains establishing dominance, like forcing a cowardly character to shave them. IwYpwODSb5Y/WdFDwoxyRqI/AAAAAAAAWX4/XbCWJzmxBME0KDlwukBmlc8JvlQZlCFiACLcBGAs/s1600/Slide3.JPG' alt='Odd Project The Second Hand Stopped Rar' title='Odd Project The Second Hand Stopped Rar' />Its also unpleasantly intimate. A bath towel is used in the nude it is applied to your intimate places. ScpQ6tf5XU/WcOkuwXcF5I/AAAAAAAAC2Q/25hJxsOcZ4Yd3Y_kOKNXhVpkcjZIN80lACK4BGAYYCw/s1600/Interior%2Bgiraffe%2Bskull%2B-%2BSpinage%2B1968.jpg' alt='Odd Project The Second Hand Stopped Rar' title='Odd Project The Second Hand Stopped Rar' />A guest rubbing their hands on it is groping a ghost of your freshly showered morning self. If the towel is still damp, we are immediately reminded that this dampness came not from your own hands, which we gladly grasp in greeting or farewell, but from parts of you weve never seen, much less caressed. You may as well ask us to use your toothbrush. Finally, sharing towels is a health hazard. The germs you pass to yourself are less harmful than the germs you pass to others, whose bodies havent always developed the same immunities. This is, of course, still a risk with hand towels, but less so, as those towels havent rubbed the exotic petri dish of your genital orifices before hanging limply to dry in the wettest room of your home. Your hand towels can be cheap. AOL Inc. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Terms of Use Preferences Contact Us. When the Romans began acquiring bits and pieces of the eastern Mediterranean in the second century BC, they encountered a highly developed, urban, populous, and rich. Mara Jade Skywalker was, during different times in her life, an Emperors Hand, a smuggler, and. People who dont have hand towels in your bathrooms What do you think your guests dry their hands on 1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul. They can be ugly. No one cares, so long as they can be clearly identified as hand towelsnot a bath towel, not a floor towel. To that end, they must be smaller than these other towels. Other than that, go wild. And please, wash your hand towels now and then. Ideally every week, but at least as often as your other laundry. The Washington Metro, known colloquially as Metro and branded Metrorail, is the heavy rail rapid transit system serving the Washington metropolitan area in the United. Weve written a lot about the art of quitting. Its cathartic, productive, and it may even make you live longer. Heres a guide to Lifehackers best advice. Anything less, and your guests may as well wipe their hands dry on your mouth. Washington Metro Wikipedia. This article needs to be updated. In particular some as of statements need updating. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. April 2. Washington Metro. Overview. Locale. Washington, D. C. Transit type. Rapid transit. Number of lines. 6Line number. Red Line. Blue Line. Orange Line. Yellow Line. Green Line. Silver Line. Number of stations. Daily ridership. 74. Q4 2. 01. 61Annual ridership. Chief executive. Paul Wiedefeld2Headquarters. St NWWashington, D. C. 2. 00. 01. Websitewww. Operation. Began operation. March 2. 7, 1. 97. OperatorsWashington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority WMATACharacter. At grade, elevated, and underground. Number of vehicles. Train length. 6 or 8 cars. Headway. 3 6 mins peak 1. Technical. System length. No. of tracks. 2Track gauge. Minimum radius of curvature. Electrification. Third rail 7. VDCThe Washington Metro, known colloquially as Metro and branded Metrorail,4 is the heavy rail rapid transit system serving the Washington metropolitan area in the United States. It is administered by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority WMATA, which also operates Metrobus service under the Metro name. Besides the District of Columbia, Metro serves several jurisdictions in the states of Maryland and Virginia. In Maryland, Metro provides service to Montgomery and Prince Georges counties in Virginia, to Arlington and Fairfax counties and the independent city of Alexandria. Combined with its ridership in the independent Virginia cities of Falls Church and Fairfax, the Metro service area is largely coextensive with the inner ring of the Washington metropolitan area. The system is currently being expanded to reach Dulles International Airport and Loudoun County, Virginia. It operates mostly as a subway in the District itself, while most of the suburban tracks are at surface level or elevated. Opened in 1. 97. 6, the network now includes six lines, 9. Due to subway track depths, Metros Wheaton station has the longest, single tier escalator in the Western Hemisphere, spanning 2. Metro is the third busiest rapid transit system in the United States in number of passenger trips, after the New York City Subway and Chicago L. There were 2. Metro in fiscal year 2. In June 2. 00. 8, Metro set a monthly ridership record with 1. Fares vary based on the distance traveled, the time of day, and the type of card used by the passenger. Riders enter and exit the system using a proximity card called Smar. Trip. Historyedit. Metro under construction at the Navy Yard in 1. During the 1. 96. Washington. Harland Bartholomew, who chaired the National Capital Planning Commission, thought that a rail transit system would never be self sufficient because of low density land uses and general transit ridership decline. But the plan met fierce opposition, and was altered to include a Capital Beltway system plus rail line radials. The Beltway received full funding funding for the ambitious Inner Loop Freeway system was partially reallocated toward construction of the Metro system. In 1. 96. 0 the federal government created the National Capital Transportation Agency to develop a rapid rail system. In 1. 96. 6, a bill creating WMATA was passed by the federal government, the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland,6 with planning power for the system being transferred to it from the NCTA. Interior of a rehabilitated Breda car. WMATA approved plans for a 9. Construction began after a groundbreaking ceremony on December 9, 1. Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe, District Mayor Walter Washington, and Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel tossed the first spade of dirt at Judiciary Square. The first portion of the system opened March 2. Red Line with five stations from Rhode Island Avenue to Farragut North, all in the District of Columbia. Arlington County, Virginia was linked to the system on July 1, 1. Montgomery County, Maryland, on February 6, 1. Prince Georges County, Maryland, on November 2. Fairfax County, Virginia, and Alexandria, Virginia, on December 1. Underground stations were built with cathedral like arches of concrete, highlighted by soft, indirect lighting. The name Metro was suggested by Massimo Vignelli, who designed the subway maps for the New York City Subway. The 1. 03 mile 1. Green Line segment to Branch Avenue on January 1. This did not mean the end of the growth of the system a 3. Blue Line to Largo Town Center and Morgan Boulevard opened on December 1. The first in fill station, No. Ma  Gallaudet University at the time called the New York AveFlorida AveGallaudet University station on the Red Line between Union Station and Rhode Island Ave Brentwood, opened November 2. Construction began in March 2. Dulles Airport to be built in two phases. The first phase, five stations connecting East Falls Church to Tysons Corner and Wiehle Avenue in Reston, opened on July 2. Metro construction required billions of federal dollars, originally provided by Congress under the authority of the National Capital Transportation Act of 1. Public Law 9. 1 1. The cost was paid with 6. This act was amended on January 3, 1. Public Law 9. 6 1. The National Capital Transportation Amendment of 1. Stark Harris Act, which authorized additional funding of 1. WMATA in July 1. 98. On November 1. 5, 1. Public Law 1. 01 5. The National Capital Transportation Amendments of 1. The highest ridership for a single day was on the day of the inauguration of Barack Obama, January 2. It broke the previous record, set the day before, of 8. June 2. 00. 8 set several ridership records the single month ridership record of 1. In February 2. 00. Metro officials chose Randi Miller, a car dealership employee from Woodbridge, Virginia, to record new doors opening, doors closing, and please stand clear of the doors, thank you announcements after winning an open contest to replace the messages recorded by Sandy Carroll in 1. The Doors Closing contest attracted 1,2. On October 3. 0, 2. Rally to Restore Sanity andor Fear broke a 1. Saturday ridership, with 8. The previous record had been set on June 8, 1. Desert Storm rally. Opening dateseditYear. Line. From. To. March 2. Red. Farragut North. Rhode Island Avenue. December 1. 5, 1. Red opening of Gallery PlaceFarragut North. Rhode Island Avenue. January 1. 7, 1. 97. Red. Dupont Circle. Rhode Island Avenue. July 1, 1. 97. 7Blue. National Airport. Stadium Armory. February 6, 1. Red. Dupont Circle. Silver Spring. November 2. OrangeBlue. National Airport. New Carrollton. December 1, 1. Orange. Ballston. New Carrollton. November 2. BlueOrange. National AirportBallston. Addison RoadNew Carrolton. December 5, 1. 98. Red. Van Ness UDCSilver Spring. April 3. 0, 1. 98. Yellow. National Airport. Gallery Place. December 1. Yellow. Huntington. Gallery Place. August 2. Red. Grosvenor. Silver Spring. December 1. 5, 1. Red. Shady Grove. Silver Spring. June 7, 1. Cle Activation Pctv Center. Orange. Vienna. New Carrollton. September 2. 2, 1. Red. Shady Grove. Wheaton. May 1. 1, 1. Yellow. Huntington. U Street Cardozo. June 1. 5, 1. 99. Blue. Van Dorn Street. Addison Road. December 2. Green. U Street Cardozo. Anacostia. December 1. Green. Fort Totten. Greenbelt. June 2. Blue. Franconia Springfield. Addison Road. July 2. Red. Shady Grove. Glenmont. September 1. Green connecting previous two segmentsGreenbelt. Anacostia. January 1. Green. Greenbelt. Branch Avenue. November 2. Red addition of New York Ave StationShady Grove. Glenmont. December 1. Blue. Franconia Springfield. Largo Town Center. July 2. 6, 2. 01. Silver. Wiehle Reston East. Largo Town Center. TBA 2. 01. 9 or 2. Silver. Ashburn. Largo Town Center2. ArchitectureeditMany Metro stations were designed by Chicago architect Harry Weese, and are examples of late 2. With their heavy use of exposed concrete and repetitive design motifs, Metro stations display aspects of Brutalist design.