dcm@drux3.UUCP (MengesDC) (10/24/84)
Munch! I'm genuinely curious about one aspect of coed bathrooms, namely women's urinals. It seems the urinals that were turned into planters were designed for men. My real question is this, do women really use women's urinals? I ask from the perspective of having installed them (men's and women's) while working for my father's plumbing and heating business. I suspect that they are used very little (a waste of the prospective owner's money) but don't know. For the uninformed, the bowl on a wall hung urinal is colloquialy called the horn. Mens urinals have a short horn and women's have a long horn. A woman (in theory) straddles the horn. Imagine the difficulty if the woman is wearing a dress, or if there are splatters on the horn, or trousers about the ankels standing bow-legged. It seems to be an insensitive device designed, specified, and installed by generally insensitive men (my father excluded, he's generally sensitive and I'm biased). For the record my mother and sisters claim they won't use a women's urinal. I place them (women's urinals) in the same category as a vaginal speculum: barbaric and looks like a relic of the Spanish Inquisition. Please let me know. If there are sufficient responses I will summarize to the net. P.S. I am really bothered by the euphamisms we use for the crapper (after Sir Thomas A. Crapper, inventor and plumber to the Queen mother of England, Knighted for his invention). Are you really going to bathe in the middle of a meal at a restaurant when you go to the bathroom? Maybe you spilled your plate of spagetti down your shirt or blouse in which case.... Larry Cler !ihnp4!drux2!ljc (303)-538-1428 Larry CLer AT&T Information Systems Laboratory 11900 N Pecos Denver, CO 80234