# In The Ladies' Room. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 14, 2003, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-ladies-room/201545 "2003-09-14T11:47:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-ladies-room/201545/41 "2003-09-16T12:30:28Z")
A neighbor of mine worked the night shift at a place that had a couch in the ladies room. He used to go in there and catch a quick nap or read on his lunch hour. One morning, the day shift came in to find him dead on the couch. Helluva way to die. On the couch in the ladies room at work. ---
**Author:** ![ArtyDooDoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@ArtyDooDoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArtyDooDoo)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-ladies-room/201545/42 "2003-09-16T12:30:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Narrad \* > \*\*Perhaps it was a statement; a protest á la **lieu**. > Or maybe it was performance art, a piece for me and you > Nevertheless, it was creative shit – it was some **ArtyDooDoo**. \*\* LOL!!!😃 ---
**Author:** ![frookah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@frookah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frookah)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-ladies-room/201545/43 "2003-09-16T12:57:44Z")
Im a girl. But. I have some special gene that most women seem to bloody well lack. I can pee quickly, wash my hands and be ready to leave before most men can whip it out. My friends are still fiddling with lipstick, gossiping, yanking up pantyhose, reapplying layers of bandaids to blistered feet from nazi shoes, gawd only knows. I sit on that little couch and wait, and wait, and wait. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-ladies-room/201545/44 "2003-09-16T13:04:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sapphire Bullet \* > \*\*One of the ladies’ rooms on campus has sort of a waiting area next to the bathrooms. Sort of like a foyer to the stalls? There were several times I went in and saw girls laying on the couch studying. Basically IN the bathroom. Mere FEET away from toilets. It isn’t as if there weren’t other quiet areas in which to study. > > Weird. Weird weird weird. \*\* There’s a hotel that my husband and I frequently stay at that has one of these “waiting rooms.” It’s pure luxury. It’s not really a foyer, but a seperate room with a door you must open to go into the stall areas. There’s a little shelf in there which has all sorts of women’s products: powders, lotions, perfumes, free ladies’ tolietries, and even makeup sample packs, in case of emergency touch-ups. I’ve often speculated that one reason for the ante-room may have been a hold-over from the days in which ladies’s modesty would not stand for a man accidently catching a glimpse through the door of women in a room with a toilet. With a luxurious sitting room, all men would see if the door opened were women lounging in luxury, not waiting for something as crude as a commode. ---
**Author:** ![katiekilldare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/838e76/32.png) [@katiekilldare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katiekilldare)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-ladies-room/201545/45 "2003-09-16T13:19:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cartooniverse \* > **Okay, this leads me to the follow-up question. Is this business of hygeine by blackmail and coercion unique to men’s rooms, or do the ladies also find a demonical matron ensconced by the sinks in the ladies’ loo ?** These frauleins also like to stake out spots in theme-y restaurants like _Planet Hollywood_ and _Hard Rock Cafe_. Let me tell you what, after a few “Indecent Proposals” (margaritas with OJ) at _Planet Hollywood_, you tend to happily tip the nice lady who’s there to hand you a towel. It’s also in those instances that I’m pretty happy there’s a sofa in there. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-ladies-room/201545/46 "2003-09-16T13:42:49Z")
OK ladies, tit for tat. At gentlemen’s clubs, there’s a butler in the men’s room who gives us towelettes. Top THAT! ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-ladies-room/201545/47 "2003-09-16T14:32:14Z")
You’re just jealous, Knowed Out. ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-ladies-room/201545/48 "2003-09-16T14:40:26Z")
The ladies’ in my office doesn’t even have a functioning light and hasn’t done for some 3 weeks. As we are located in a windowless basement - affectionatley known as “the bunker” - this means peeing in total darkness. Soap and hand-towels are shy and elusive creatures, very rarely spotted and then only briefly. However, I’m told though that the mens is equally ill-equipped, so at least all things are equal. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-ladies-room/201545/49 "2003-09-16T15:44:31Z")
The answer to this dilemma seems to be clear: [ul]**[li] The women get the chairs and sofas[/li][li] The men get the urinals.**[/li]😃 **Simple** [/ul] ---
**Author:** ![MaryEFoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MaryEFoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaryEFoo)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-ladies-room/201545/50 "2003-09-16T20:24:36Z")
In California, there used to be a law that a business of over 35 female employees needed a “quiet room” with a couch for women. Then they passed a law requiring equality, and guess what, instead of the guys getting couches, they took away the requirement for women having them. ---
**Author:** ![MaryEFoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MaryEFoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaryEFoo)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-ladies-room/201545/51 "2003-09-16T20:31:41Z")
Ha, my last job site had three women and more men (10 max. on a floor), and they began using the women’s room which was four steps closer to the area. And their argument, presented to upper management, was that the men’s room was so disgusting. The women found a flaw in that argument, and prevailed. Oh yes, the restrooms were identical, mirror images. ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-ladies-room/201545/52 "2003-09-16T21:44:13Z")
The ladies’ room at Nordstrom downtown in the fine jewelry section has a separate (separate even from the normal “sitting room”) “Mothers’ Area,” complete with overstuffed armchair in a nook for nursing, with a foot massager in front of it! (Well, it’s been years since I’ve been there, but I expect it’s still the same.) ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-ladies-room/201545/53 "2003-09-24T01:37:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Avarie537 \* > \*\*The ladies’ room at Nordstrom downtown in the fine jewelry section has a separate (separate even from the normal “sitting room”) “Mothers’ Area,” complete with overstuffed armchair in a nook for nursing, with a foot massager in front of it! (Well, it’s been years since I’ve been there, but I expect it’s still the same.) \*\* Okay, THIS I can appreciate and respect. Not all women are at ease nursing even very discreetly, in a store when there might be an area that is more private. I grok that. As for the rest of the responses, I am highly bemused. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-ladies-room/201545/54 "2003-09-24T05:01:11Z")
In the stately William Penn Hotel in downtown Pittsburgh, PA, there is a gorgeous women’s salon attached to the ladies’ room on the main lobby level. It has royal red carpeting and the expected compendium of luxurious couches and chairs, but the cap it off, it’s the best air-conditioned area in the city in the summer. I know numerous women, including my former boss, who eat their lunches there every day! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-ladies-room/201545.md?page=2)