Stage fright is legit, but I’ve only heard about it at urinals. With stalls they shouldn’t have that problem. Unless they’re worried about me recognizing their shoes, which is a fun game I play when not looking at…um…business stuff on my phone.
Stage fright is the worst at Chiefs games. They just have troughs instead of stand-alone urinals so you’re elbow to elbow with dudes. I little performance anxiety there is understandable.
just play angry birds while performing number 2…that will take care of fright a little i imagine…
We only have two stalls in the bathroom nearest my desk - one regular and one handicapped. I don’t like how the handicapped toilet is so high that it cuts off circulation to my legs while I peruse the chive or reddit on my phone, so I’ll exit the bathroom and wait for a better time when I can use the regular stall.
True story. Late one night in the Empire State Building, we were leaving and the two women with me said they needed to go to the bathroom, and I said I needed to go too.
They said “Here, come with us. What? You’ve never gone into a women’s bathroom in an office building before… we’ll need to fix that.” So we all went together.
Turn your dirty minds off, my friends. We simply went and did our business
I did make it a point to leave the toilet seat up, however, just for fun.
^ Beside the lack of urinals and an extra stall or two, was it any different than the men’s room? Except for a mistake at a Spanish restaurant which was very quickly remedied, I have never been in a women’s bathroom.
It wasn’t much different. It seemed extra clean, and no graffiti on the stalls, but I couldn’t tell if that was a gender effect, or the fact that it was late and the cleaning staff had been there, or whether it was just because it was a professional building.
The vibrating door handle was kinda interesting though…
So that’s why it takes them so long
That story was disappointing on several levels.
At my old job, I was told that there was a couch in the women’s restroom. Our receptionist apparently would eat her lunch while lounging on that couch, which I found quite disturbing.
TMI…
A few years ago, I met a friend of mine from high school who had since undergone female-to-male gender reassignment survey. He said that the worst thing about going from being a woman to being a man was the quality of the public restrooms.
He also pointed out that apparently there’s lots of talking that goes on in the womens’ bathroom, compared to the men’s. Basically, there’s an unspoken “no talking” rule that men have that helps us reassure each other that we’re not taking a peek at your junk. I’d never thought about exactly why we men don’t generally talk in the restroom (other than occasionally a word or two while washing up at the sink), but this makes sense to me.
There is a sales guy on my floor who takes phone calls on his headset while going to the bathroom. I’ve seen him walk into the bathroom, do his thing, and leave, all while talking on the phone. I wonder if the sound effects are audible on the other end.
Restrooms are the last bastion of privacy…i like it when fellow dudes are minding their own business while handling their business.
There’s worse. Guys that wink at you or pat you on the back while you’re urinating.
Not cool teasing us like that.
I’m positive I’m not the only guy that reads a book in the stall.
Yes…that’s definitely a pet peeve of mine. I’m trying to drain liquidity, and some dude has to strike up a conversation.
Agreed, i hope debates won’t dissapoint
I don’t tend to start conversations with people at the urinal but it doesn’t really bother me. What’s weird is women’s bathroom etiquette. They all use stalls and it’s apperently quite normal for them to enter the bathroom together and have conversations whilest on the bathroom (like men at urinals). I asked my wife about it a while back and she was really cagey about the topic, like she didn’t want to reveal everything about this women’s secret society. There must be some unspoken etiquette though when they realise the other women is having a crap, you shut down the conversation then or something. Or do they just keep talking to muffle out the splashing and effort sounds? I would find it difficult to carry on a conversation while having a crap, there can be a fair amount of concentration involved, not to mention that I find the whole thing to be somewhat meditative.
