Comments on: How not to pee (men’s division)

By: bryan

bryan — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:33:16 +0000

i’ve never witnessed the standing whiz, marleyfan, but i’ve heard that story many times. it does sum up a certain aspect of her personality, doesn’t it? [ducks, even though he's hundreds of miles away from potentially flying objects.]

tim — i enjoyed this post and am waiting to see where it goes next. i wanted to comment last week but have had very little time, what with all the monking out and soiling jeremy’s car, but i had two reactions. one, you didn’t mention the issue of stage fright. a friend of mine who writes for this site and shall remain anonymous, even though he posts under his own name, gave me the recipe for overcoming stagefright years ago: imagine yourself defecating or urinating on the person standing next to you who’s bringing on the anxiety.

the again, have you ever been to roseland ballroom in ny? their troughs run down both sides of a waist-high wall, so that you’re not only surrounded by guys on either side, but directly infront of you, facing you, as well. what kind of sadist designed that bathroom?

i don’t have much for rules. just the old-fashioned kind. if you sprinkle when you tinkle, be a sweetie and wipe the seatie. no one likes to look at — or clean up — urine jelly. i never liked living with male roommates.

By: MarleyFan

MarleyFan — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:01:09 +0000

Even more strange, are the Men’s restrooms that have a tiled wall to pee on (water runs down the wall to clean it) with a little drain at the bottom.

I love to tell the story about when we were young, my sister (Stephanie W.) could pee outside standing straight up. Yup, true story!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:23:13 +0000

I’ve heard that women’s restrooms are much nastier than men’s for precisely the reason you cite, Celia. I’d rather have a trough.

By: celia

celia — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:45:24 +0000

My biggest pet “pee”ve in public restrooms (besides the inevitable long line) is when women are germ-aphobes to the point that they crouch above the toilet seat and attempt to pee in a partially standing position. Women are often too short to really get a good angle at the bowl, and they never have straight enough aim to get everything in the toilet anyway; they therefore leave splatters all over the seat. Many, many women leave their pee splatters for the next woman to deal with. Sometimes I have to pee so badly I forget to check the seat, I sit down, and a wet surprise awaits me. Even if I notice it, I don’t want to wipe someone else’s pee off the seat. Sick. =P

It really is ineresting to me that there are places in America with the “trough” system. That’s like 3rd world country style. It was like that in China, but for everything. You stand over the trough and squat. Sometimes there were dividers, sometimes there weren’t. There was almost never toilet paper, so if you didn’t want to litterally have a mess on your hands, you’d better come prepared. Nothing like watching people’s bodily excriments being swept underneath you in a trough.

By: Jeremy Zitter

Jeremy Zitter — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:03:23 +0000

You don’t have to defend yourself, Tim. I loved this post, and of course most “guys” and “GUYS” have been in equally harrowing situations. And while splashing pee on a fellow urinator is one thing, your post also made me curious about other possible breaches of etiquette. I work at a school where every student has a cell phone, and I’m constantly encountering students (guys, at least) talking on their cellphones while at the urinals or even in stalls. I always find it somewhat disconcerting, a sort of sanitary, tech version of splashing pee on the person at the other end of the conversation. It’s a stretch, I know, but either way, you don’t really want to be a part of someone else’s bathroom experience, even if it’s just over the phone.

And while I realize that women don’t generally pee in close-enough proximity to, uhh, spill bodily fluids on one another, I wondered–what corresponding rules and breaches occur in women’ s restrooms?