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Urinal Etiquette: A Query


You all know that you're supposed to space yourself out at a urinal as much as possible. Nobody wants to get uncomfortable in the bathroom if they don't have to. BUT the other day I ran into a problem. What if spacing yourself out would mean having to use the little people urinal?

Here was the set up:

I went into the bathroom and found 4 urinals. The second one from the right was being used by a elderly man, supposedly with a large prostate because he took forever to pee anything out. In a normal situation, I would go over to the far left to space myself out: Me, free urinal, him, free urinal. Like that. BUT the urinal on the far left was for children or midgets or people who like to feel like they're giants. This was bad. Peeing in the low urinal usually contributes to a greater splash effect, and I was wearing flipflops and shorts that day, high risk pee-on-yourself clothes.

What did I do? I didn't want to wait around an hour for this guy to get a couple drops out and I definitely didn't want to stand next to him while he was grunting for release. So I manned up, or boyed down I guess. It wasn't perfect, although I did my best to manage splash. I went back to work and tried not to think about my pee toes.

What would you have done?