Not workplace, necessarily (though it happened with coworkers when I was working, too), but I have noticed a lot of black women being vocal in the bathroom. Not even kidding. Like responding to a preacher in a charismatic church.
“Oh, Lord.” grunt, poot… “Hoo, Jesus. Help me now.”
I’m not trying to be weird, but this is definitely a thing. I don’t even do a #2 in public if I can help it, but I can’t imagine announcing it to everyone in the vicinity.
[QUOTE= How to Survive in Federal Prison]
This may sound weird and uncomfortable, but could be life-saving: If you are concerned about getting attacked, sit when you go to the bathroom, and take your pants off completely. Since many attacks happen when you are using the toilet, it’s easier to defend yourself without your pants around your ankles, so you would not trip.
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from How to Survive in Federal Prison The Lowdown indeed.
Off the top of my head I can come up with the following:
He has a psychological issue with pissing in front of others sufficient that he essentially can’t piss in front of others. Using a stall affords him sufficient privacy that he can actually piss.
He suffers from some sort of malformation/injury of the penis that makes standing up to piss difficult or impossible. Hypospadias has been mentioned, but it’s not the only reason someone could have “junk problems”.
He suffers from some sort of urological problem that requires a catheter. I’m pretty sure most people would prefer not to see someone standing at a urinal threading a catheter up his penis in order to piss, or doing maintenance work on a supra-public catheter. It’s not that it’s gory or gross, but it’s not normal either.
That’s just off the top of my head, I’m sure there could be other reasons. They all seem to be both good reasons and not something I’d expect a person to share with co-workers.
Isnt he just allowed to prefer to pee sitting down? Why isn’t that the simplest explanation?
Most men in our society seem to think standing while pissing is important. Therefore, I think it more likely he has an “issue” rather than a simple preference.
But yeah, maybe he just prefers to sit.
I had an ex-boyfriend. Big, burly guy (6’5", 260 pounds), who would only pee sitting down.
At my old work, the owner would use the men’s room (one person at a time style room) and apparently lift the toilet seat to piss. Except the toilet was right next to a urinal. You had to walk past the urinal to use the toilet. I know he did this because if I walked in after him, the seat would still be up.
Why did he use the toilet and not the urinal to urinate? Beats me. He wasn’t sitting down since he lifted the seat but… eh, who knows. His bathroom, I guess.
Some Europeans are pushing the sitting thing.:rolleyes: But my issue with it is that a urinal uses hwaaaay less water per flush than a regular toilet.
Let’s dial back the insulting tone in this forum.
We have several people in my building who do this. Male and female.
I once went on a tear about it on the office internal forum (because dirty coffee cups had been soaking in the ladies bathroom sink), and immediately deleted it. The next day I found out that you could elect to have all post sent to your email so half the agency knew.
One woman started an email dialog with me justifying her decision to use the bathroom sink in the ladies this way. I just ended up saying “The next time we have to call the plumber to unblock the bathroom sink I’ll know who to point the finger at for the expense.”
It’s so bad in the men’s room that I was told that there’s a sign saying “Do not wash your dishes in the bathroom.”
Like this! (“Alone In A Washroom For The First Time” by Don Martin.)
Seconded. We have white noise piped into our building - everywhere but the bathrooms, which is the absolute first place I’d want it.
This bugs the hell out of me at places like airports, where there are a whole bunch of stalls along one wall, and a fairly narrow passage going past them all. You start to go into the first open stall, or at least you thought it was open because the door was hanging partway open. Instead, it’s occupied by someone standing up to pee into the toilet (which is fine with me, so long as they lift the seat first) but for whatever reason, left the damn door open, making it look like the stall was empty (which it wasn’t).
Folks who get walked in on under those circumstances have no one to blame but themselves. So don’t feel bad for falling into the trap they set.
Oh, I don’t feel bad - just annoyed.
Actually, it’s all the fun and games that come with hydrochlorothiazide (diuretic, part of the blood pressure medication I’m on).
Actually, I believe the European campaign is against standing up to pee into a toilet (since men habitually miss the target at least some of the time). Not against using urinals, when they are available.
My contribution to this thread is the guy I used to work with who would wash his hands first, pee at the urinal, and then walk out without washing again. I mean, that’s just rude. You don’t want anything possibly noxious to touch your precious penis (which is understandable), but you don’t mind spreading your own second-hand pee around the office. Thanks, dude. No, sorry, I can’t shake your hand, I have a rash.
Sorry! That was (apparently not obvious )sarcasm.
Order of operations does appear to confuse some people. Another incorrect order is to urinate, wash your hands, and then stand in front of the paper towel dispenser blowing your nose repeatedly, and then leave.
Side saddle?
*A Harvard man and a Yale man are at the urinal. They finish and zip up. The Harvard man proceeds to the sink to wash his hands, while the Yale man immediately makes for the exit.
The Harvard man says, “At Hah-vahd they teach us to wash our hands after we urinate.”
The Yale man replies, “At Yale they teach us not to piss on our hands.”*