I just walked out of the men's bathroom, here at my place employment. I think it's an industry standard bathroom. Well, maybe double the standard - as we do have a seperate changing room/shower. But other than that it's the usual two stalls (one handicap), and two urinals (one short, one normal in height).
When I walked into the bathroom, 5 minutes ago, I'm presented with this scenario:
One other man, besides myself, standing (and I presume peeing) at the short urinal. I myself had to pee, and not take a duke, so I was spared from having to wait for an empty bathroom. Now. Just what the futon this guy was doing at the short urinal is beyond me, when he clearly had the open opportunity to use the normal height urinal. But for some personal reason, he chose the short one.
While I can't give you a specific delta in the height of the normal vs. the short urinal, I can tell you that the short urinal is probably reserved for someone say, Tom Cruise's height. The guy standing next to me wasn't Yao Ming or anything, but he was no Tom Cruise either. I guess what it comes down to for me, is that the short urinal in my mind somehow translates to short weiner. There, I said it.
I pee'd and zipped up before small weiner man did. (I had about a Grande White Mocha sized pee in me; he must have had a Venti this morning) There I left him, all by himself again, at the short urinal; with the normal urinal, wide open and free to use.
aparatus says,
Actually, the lower one hangs, the lower the prefered urinal. One does not want their aparatus to be too close to the urinal because 'splash-up' could occur. I always choose the shorty. This is the same reason a super short person would choose the shorty as well. Shorty person + tall urinal = dangerous distance to point of contact of piss to porcelan. Sometimes.. things are just the opposite of what you would think. So please, leave the shorties open for those of us who really need them. Thanks.
Posted @ May 16, 2005Noah says,
Interesting point... the dreaded 'splash-up' isn't something I considered when I saw the lone ranger in there on the shorty urinal... perhaps that was his reasoning. However, you must also consider the 'splash-down'... the further the distance the urine travels, the greater the velocity, and thus greater resulting 'splash-down'; which if you were on the short urinal could lead to unsightly splash after effects around your knees of your Dockers...
Posted @ May 16, 2005red canary says,
Great post Noah. I've always wondered about the shorty urinals as well. And why do we have shorty urinals, but not shorty toilets? According to Noah's theory, it's because no one has a small butt? But I have seen plenty of small butts in my days... Not that I'm looking at a lot of butts. Especially men's butts...in the bathroom.
Posted @ May 17, 2005