Subject:      Re: ***Pee Poll*** Guys ONLY Please Answer
Date:         Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:18:17 GMT
From:         Infinity@world.std.com (Captain Infinity)
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Once Upon A Time,
In article <q7n0sssrrc2rdt0d08bn3d93cruig19145@4ax.com>
Russell B wrote:

>When you go to pee in a public lavatory and you have to use a stand-up urinal,
>do you get "stage fright"?
>
>If so, what do you do?

Firstly, I must say I have thoroughly enjoyed this thread, even though
it was started by that fruitcake Russell B who excessively crossposted
to groups where it is off-topic.  (I have cut the groups back a bit in
this post, to only those groups where urination is on-topic.  Oh, and
aft-s, where it isn't, but that's OK.)

However, I am a bit bugged by the fact that, as one poster mentioned
earlier, this thread discriminates against women.  Please see
http://www.restrooms.org/standing.html for reasons why this should not
be so.

Having said that, I'd now like to hear from the ladies.

As for my own response to the pee poll I must confess that I do not have
a viewpoint either way.  I never experience "shy bladder", nor do I ever
need to choose between a urinal or a stall.  This is because I have an
internal catheter running from my bladder to a urine collection bag that
is worn against my leg 24 hours a day.  This was originally a
requirement of my job as a collection officer in a Massachusetts
Turnpike toll booth (no bathrooms on the highway, y'know) but I soon
found that not having to enter public restrooms was a wonderful
advantage, so I made it a permanent part of my lifestyle.

In fact, it can be great fun at parties.  Recently at a Babylon 5 party
at the World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago I entered the
bathroom, only to find a young lady examining the different types of
beers on ice in the bathtub.  "Don't mind me," I said, and lifted the
bag out of my pants, opened it up, and poured its contents into the
toilet.  I then flushed, stuck it back in my pants, washed my hands,
smiled at the astonished girl, and left the bathroom whistling.[1]  The
look on her face was unforgettable; I wish I'd had a camera with me.

** 
Captain Infinity
 ...[1] I *demand* that someone make this sentence a .sig quote.

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