From the "What's the deal with that" column.

I was at the Titans/Packers game several weeks ago, and while standing in line in the mens room at the coliseum, the room went to complete silence as one guy walked up to the urinal, dropped his pants to his ankles, did his thing and left. My question.... why?? Why did this guy need to expose his hairy white butt to everyone in the room? He was dressed in green and gold, so that may expalin... I had just never seen a grown man do that in a public restroom.

I used to work part-time for a cleaning service who cleaned schools after hours, and if you think guys are messy in a restroom, try cleaning the women's restroom of a Junior High School... they're disgusting!!

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Barry Floyd
Floyd Entertainment Group
Nashville, Tennessee
(Drive-In Theatre - Start-Up)

Good point; I thought it was pretty well known that the girls are worse than the guys in bathrooms. I mean, some guy will rip a urinal from the wall, or knock a stall wall down, but then nothing else will happen for the next year.

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It's been my experience that men's biggest problem is with aim and the complete laziness to lift the toilet seat. If only there was a way to prevent men from "standing" at a toilet. You know, AMC has auto-flushing toilets that operate off of sensors. Why can't they invent an automatic toilet-seat-lifter?

On the other hand, women generally are neater, but apparently they lose their mind and will trash a restroom if they find even one stall out of paper. We used to check the bathrooms every 15 minutes and there were several instances where it was a slow weekday and only a dozen people in the entire building. Check after check all day long everything was nice and tidy. Then out of the blue (and in all probability only one visitor) the women's bathroom would be completely trashed...every stall. One time the concessionist actually walked in to do a check and caught one woman who was throwing rolls of toilet paper around the restroom and had already knocked over the trash can. What's up with THAT? Overall in my experience, the men's restroom was never as bad as the women's.

No no, I completly agree, we women are pigs in public restrooms...maybe its the fact that most of the time we are the ones cleaning the toilets at home and when we go out...WE GO ALL OUT!
I've noticed alot of women throw their pads (ahem...sorry all you queezy guys) in the toilet and try to flush it (tampons typically do not clog the toilet)...common sense says to me, "Do not throw big things that aburb alot of water in a toilet with a little hole"...but who knows? Many a time I've walked in on other women doing their makeup, using papertowels to kiss when they just put lipstick on and throw it in the sink...??? I don't get it, most of the time there is a trash right next to them? What would they say to their kid who did that at home? The funny thing is, most of the women I've seen do this are between 40-60, the teenagers and 20-somethings typically use the trash. Who knows, we can be slobs too!

These have been available for almost as long as there have been flush toilets. Tell the local plumber that you want a "saluting" or "self rising" toilet seat for the men's room and he should know exactly what you mean. There is a torsion spring that flips the seat up except when someone sits on it. The self riser was invented by no less a man than Thomas Crapper of toilet fame.

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Now with that said -- I can explain the reason why I've noticed the BEST urinal setups exist at the Edwards Irvine Spectrum in Irvine, CA -- they might also exist at other Edwards Cinemas - but I'm not sure. Apparently somebody at Edwards Cinemas has the shy bladder too, because the way these urinals are arranged are in 'pods' of 4. A little alcove with 2 next the each other on one wall, and two on the opposite wall... it really removes that "Piss Trough" mentality of stepping up to the urinal.

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No -- sometimes... zip-flap-pee-shake-return-zip is all I've got the energy for.

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Yes, the thought of the saluting toilet seat immeditately brought back thoughts of the "PLO". Funny stuff.