Womens restroom Story

Good post. I've always wondered why.

Tom

 

I've often wondered about the toilet seat phobia. As long as its dry, you won't get anything from it. "Skin" is much better protector than a sheet of annoying porous paper anyway.

Someone should tell women this. If they all just sat, with their skin touching the toilet seat, there would never be anything on the toilet seat. It might even be nicely warmed by the person before you. Women need to be educated. Having taken on this task before, I elect you guys to do the educating.

I have always thought it was that women are more social than men. Men instinctively know that Larry Craig was trying to arrange a tryst, because men not only don't tap other men's feet in restrooms, we never speak or make eye contact with any one else. There is business to be done, and we are in the zone.

I was waiting outside a restroom at Disneyland when my wife came out talking to a lady. "Hon, this is Cheryl," she explained, "and she went to Marina High School too. What's so funny is that she has two girls 8 years apart just like us, with one born at Hoag Memorial, and she had trouble conceiving because of endometriosus too. They even had the sperm count done before they figured out it was her! "

So I said, "Hi Cheryl, did you guys know each other at Marina High School?" and she answered, "No, we just met. Isn't it funny that we are so much alike?"

I was stunned for most of the day, wondering just how you get from the man method and the woman method of public restroom behavior in the same species.

 

Same species? Are you sure?

 

Pretty humorous If you ask me, if we could get just a few more women engineers (seriously, there's a HUGE lack of females in engineering), all their problems would be solved. A few women would get together and design a toilet paper dispenser thats never empty, a toilet that washes and drys the seat for you in 5 seconds or less, and a door latch that never breaks.

But all us men in engineering just don't really care all that much :lol:

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(fshagan @ 2007 10 21 11:47) [snapback]528502[/snapback]</div>

Same species, different mindset. Men tend to be more competitive, and women tend to be more cooperative.

 

So "THE STANCE" is why, when I follow a woman into the stall it appears like there was just a rain shower. Doesn't explain the footprints I have seen on the seat after a woman leaves the stall.

 

On the first season of the TV show "American Inventor", one of the finalists was a woman who came up with a little restroom kit. It included a plastic thingie that clips onto the top of the gap between the door and partition, keeping the door shut and providing a hook for your handbag plus some other things like spare tissues and toilet seat cover.

It was a pretty good idea, but I was thinking, that's just one more thing I don't want to have to carry around in my handbag (see recent discussions regarding what's in women's purses).

Men also forget that women basically have to undress every time they need to urinate, then clean themselves and get dressed again. There are also some other things that women have to deal with during their childbearing years, which I won't go into here. They don't just stand there, unzip, whip it out, do their thing, shake off, and they're done.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(PriusRos @ Oct 22 2007, 12:29 PM) [snapback]528884[/snapback]</div>

Yes, and to add insult to injury, they generally have to urinate more often - pretty much kills the intelligent design theory.

Tom

 

This brings up the point that restroom facilities are archaic. Equal consideration should be given to men and women. Following architectural handbooks, urinals are available for both males and females, thereby eliminating the "aching thighs, hover" problem. Consumer Reports has repeatedly shown the tissue toilet seat covers don't stop germs.

This said, most toilets around the world are a trough where you must squate. We are definitely spoiled.

 

A women's urinal? How would that even be used?! We can't aim like men can.

 

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duplicate post.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Starbug @ Oct 22 2007, 02:37 PM) [snapback]528943[/snapback]</div>

I remember having to use a women's urinal many years ago at an airport in the U.S. I don't remember where, exactly -- somewhere out west I think. It was dreadful. It looked like a narrow toilet bowl with an elongated front, which you were supposed to straddle . The problem is, the designers didn't take into consideration that most women (maybe not those of the Britney generation) wear panties under their clothing, some wear pantyhose, and many wear pants or Jeans. It's not easy to straddle something without completely removing these garments. And you still need to squat and hover – you can’t just stand there and do it without wetting yourself!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MarinJohn @ Oct 22 2007, 09:00 AM) [snapback]528864[/snapback]</div>

That's from "the hover". There is active debate among the fairer sex about the usefulness of "the stance" over "the hover".

 

Penn & Teller addressed the issue of public restroom toilet seat sanitation on their show, "Bullshit!" Including swabs of Vegas showgirl butts before and after, thoroughly documented, of course, in the interest of science. Bottom line: the seats were more sanitary than the butts.

 

I won't go into graphic detail here, and women may not accept this from a male of the species anyway, but it's entirely possible for a woman to urinate without wetting herself. Yes, actually, I have seen it done, and you can read all about it in "How to Sh!t in the Woods" by Kathleen Meyer. I'll warn you though, you might pee yourself laughing.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hyo silver @ Oct 22 2007, 11:10 PM) [snapback]529133[/snapback]</div>

I would certainly hope so!!