Urinal Etiquitte

I have been blogging for an entire month now. One month of fun filled frolicking fantasies. I have been challenged with my first ode, a week of duct tape, and now...ilsurvive has challenged me to explain urinal etiquitte. To be perfectly honest, I am not really the right person to ask about this subject. Fact is, according to all of the guy handbook, I failed Urinals 101.

According to the Internation Center for Bathroom Etiquitte, there are a lot of different etiquittes for whatever the situation gives. DrinkNation also has an exam for people wanting to know how they fall in the etiquitte category. In a nutshell, these are the basic urinal rules:

  • No talking , unless it is a good friend...but even then, keep it terse and unemotional. This is not a clubhouse.
  • Absolutely no touching of anyone other than yourself. A touch of another's elbow is of the highest offense.
  • No Singing.
  • Glances are for purposes of ackknowledgment only..."Yeah, I see you there. I will not look again."
That's about it. I have to ask why? Why did we make these rules? What made someone come up with all of these standards and tests?

Challenges in Urinals include the trough urinal. Basically, someone made a trough and placed it in the middle of the bathroom so guy could stand on both sides of the urinal and allowed more people to use it. There is a major problem with this thought though. It was kinda like a polish firing squad. Guys were aiming and missing (overshooting) the trough. They were short lived.
Japan has the floor urinal model. There was a problem with this as well. The men would aim for the mint and thus splatter all over the floor or cause the mint to fly out, thereby making the target on the floor itself. OK, for those women who do not know what the mint is, it is a deordorizing disc that it sometimes in a plastic mesh basket. Most of the time, it stands alone.

Japanese started placing plastic bug in the urinals to produce a "game" of sorts.

MIT graduates have taken it a step further, they have created a video game for the urinal. You're in Control is a video game with a mat placed IN the urinal and a screen above the urinal. I can't wait for it to arrive on the market.

This brings me to my point (as I almost always have one). Let's give the already enjoyable activity of peeing a step up. ESPN Zone has the idea by placing screens above the urinals so what about the plain, ordinary empty wall urinals? Duct tape a newspaper above it! Start sing-along songs while standing there waiting for the big release. At the football game, instead of doing the peepee dance, start a peepee line dance. Talk about the decor. Just relax.

Men have been known to have problems going pee because of peer or pee'er pressure. I think if everyone would just relax the rules of etiquitte, the problem would be resolved. Additionally, if there is enough noise in the bathrooms, the stalls will not have to hold back either.

Do women have these type of issues? Oh, one last point...What will women think when this shows up in their bathrooms?

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