It's one thing when I'm forced to stand shoulder to shoulder with a complete stranger, whacker in hand but it's another when buddy feels compelled to make conversation-- "This is where all the dinks hang out." Duh, gee, I've never heard that one before. It's incredulous to me that somebody would even say that but on occasion it is followed up with, "You don't buy beer, you just rent it, eh." It's unlikely these shenanigans occur stall to stall in the women's can... I find it highly unlikely the words, "This is where all the vaginas hang out" have ever been spoken.
The only thing for me that has ever topped those two classic comments is the guy (never seen him before in my life) that starts relating to me the details of his bitter, messy divorce and what a bitch his ex is. Dude, sorry for your life but I really don't give a rats ass, I'm only in here for a whizz. I've taken to using a stall now whenever possible-- there are disadvantages in being able to hang it out anywhere...
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I've always wondered why men's bathrooms are designed for men to pee in front of each other. Isn't it rather weird that it's socially acceptable to pee against the wall, in front of everybody? According to my sister-in-law, in Bolivia, men and women pee just about anywhere--women hiking up their dresses, thrusting their pelvis out and peeing like a man. Who knew?
Women are usually passively friendly to each other in the bathroom and give a heads up if a stall doesn't have toilet paper. But there is the cult of girlfriends going the can together, peeing at the same time (but not in front of each other), then they primp in front of the mirror, get giddy and talk to each other. None of this small talk, bad jokes thing, though. That's a young chick thing.
Anyway, that's Part I of my anthropological dissertation on peeing. Next week, we'll discuss the pros and cons of men sitting down to pee.
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