Etiquette

[michaelrr1]

1-3-5 rule, my friend...but it also depends upon the seriousness of the matter.

Under no conditions do you use a urinal next to someone, no matter how serious. It's your own fault for waiting too damn long. Give yourself plenty of cushion so you can come back later if required.

[00clone]

Yep, you walk out and come back later. Don't use the stall. Those have one purpose and have to be saved for someone in an emergency situation. And I hate the douchebags who stand around waiting until you finish up at the urinal. I'll stay at the urinal all day if I have to, but you ain't getting it if you lurk behind me and put me in that awkward situation.

I'm going to have to disagree here. You keep the separation as much as possible, but you don't force it. If there's an open spot, you go. Otherwise...why you so sheepish, bro?

[ISpyCy]

Under no conditions do you use a urinal next to someone, no matter how serious. It's your own fault for waiting too damn long. Give yourself plenty of cushion so you can come back later if required.

So what would you do in a public stadium or venue where a trough is used? At least most urinals give you a divider...

[VTXCyRyD]

The Haverhill bar has my favorite public restroom. The urinal is trough like, but it is stainless steel and you basically pee on the wall/floor. Above it is a one way mirror where you can stare out into the bar itself, but no one can see you. Normally there is only one person in at a time. I've never had to use the crapper there, but I believe it had a separate door to it.

[Cycsk]

Restroom at work has three urinals. The third one is a short one. If the first is occupied do you use the middle or the Shorty?

Hilarious thread. I just flew into Chennai, India last night. Of course, there are great ******* stories for anyone who has spent any time in India, but here is my favorite. It isn't an etiquette story, but may be particularly interesting for our engineer types.

The Chennai airport is old-fashioned, but being modernized. Overall, Chennai is a great city. It isn't Bangalore and Hyderabad in terms of the IT industry and cooler climate, but it has great history, universities, and an awesome beach.

At any rate, the Chennai airport is being modernized. They have gone from troughs to individual urinals (with water chambers above) to urinals with automatic flushing. Yes, automatic flushing that works by an optical scanner that notices when you move away. With such a nice plumbing advancement, I was wondering why it still smelled so badly of urine. Well, when you move away, you better take a good step back because the automatic flush just sends water into the urinal and down the drain which opens into a trough in the floor below the urinal. Seriously, optical flushing that sends everyone's pee into an open floor trough.

I have a picture, but I don't know how to upload it (and yes, it was a bit awkward taking the picture!)

[JackDog]

Can't believe this hasn't been posted yet

Mr.Mackey's Chocolate Hotdog - YouTube

[urb1]

I'll be honest, I may not get the physics. I thought pointing down and working with gravity is a good thing here. If the urinal is too high, wouldn't it splash back at you?

Again, I don't really know how this all works. My dad and brother used to describe the "trough" urinal that they had at Jack Trice once upon a time, and I assumed guys stood on both sides of it peeing in the middle, and that sounded like an AWFUL idea.

The Cave Inn on Welsh used to be like this.

[fatkid1974]

I can put one of these in your sewing room angie/cowgirl if you really want to feel like one of the boys.

[mcblogerson]

Here's a urinal with tvs behind glass in a sports bar in Hong Kong. They were appropriately playing soccer so peeing on them was fun and easy.

[CycloneRulzzz]

duh, watch the video! You go use the stall or you walk out and wait your damn turn, critical mass bro, critical mass!

I laughed at this so hard I'm crying.

[cowgirl836]

I laughed at this so hard I'm crying.

[Tredici]

I'll use a stall before the short one. Just so oddly uncomfortable for me.

[klamath632]

Some ****** bag from the 2nd floor just broke the 1-3-5 rule at my expense.

Our floor's bathroom is being remodeled right now, so I walked down to two, was happily doing my business at the short urinal when this sideburn-sporting numbnuts took the other urinal right next to me. Very uncomfortable, but I calmly finished my thing, washed my hands and walked out without going off on the guy. At least he was washing his hands as I walked out the door. A special circle of Hell is reserved for "people" who don't wash after using the restroom.

[Cyclonic1]

Restroom at work has three urinals. The third one is a short one. If the first is occupied do you use the middle or the Shorty?

Shorty unless there are a significant number of kids that use that restroom and would likely come in needing the shorty.

[klamath632]

There must be something about the second floor here. Same situation as before, two urinals. I'm at one. ******* mother ****** numbnuts whore *** ***** blatantly violates the 1-3-5 rule, and every single stall was available.

I am 6'4" and 330 lbs. Dude had to brush up against me just to even take his place at the other urinal. If I were the young man that I used to be, I'd have decked this ******.

Seriously, etiquette, man!