Redlemon

Here's the scenario. You are male, and enter a public restroom to urinate. All of the urinals are occupied, but there is a stall available. What do you do?


Not the most weighty of issues, but my office only has one urinal and about 22 guys, so the question comes up often (at least in my mind). Ladies, you can vote for what you think your man does, if you want to vote, or feel free to comment.

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Glory's Sun

#2 in most cases

canuckguy

#2 in most cases as well, unless i feel unsafe then i close the door

maleficent

Well, this is gonna be some fascinating insight into the male mind...

Can we female types ask the question WHY? on some answers?

(Glad to see this isn't a he-man woman hater's club thread

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Mister Coaster

So far I'm with the majority.

Hey, you forgot a option... piss in the sink. (I've seen it at sporting events several times. And no, I've never done that in a public restroom.)

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Jesus Pimp

I always use stalls unless the urinals have very high dividers. I had a bad experience as a kid using a urinal (creepy pedophile guy looking at me while I was peeing). I don't like other guys staring at my wang when I am relieving myself.

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connyosis

In the stall, door closed. Don't know why I close the door really, just habit I guess.

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BigBen

Dude, you had to qualify that statement?!?!

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Charlatan

In most cases it would be number 3 but with two key exceptions...

1) I close the door but don't lock it
2) I will wait for a urinal if the stalls are really gross

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VitaminH

I've selected other, as it depends on the stall size. If it's small enough where I can hold the door open with my knee by standing there to pee, then I'll leave the door open, but if I cannot do that, then I'm shutting and locking the door, because the have a tendancy to swing shut and then get opened into my back by some unsuspecting bathroomgoer, causing me to fall headfirst into the toliet. Ok so that's never happened, but I have been hit and stumbled once or twice, leading to the devlopment of this rule.

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maxhooters

#2 or #3 is fine, what ever you are more comfartable with

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Coppertop

Why would one close the door when using the stall to piss when the urinal affords no such option? Weird...

MrFlux

I don't use urinals at all, number 3 it is for me even if the urinals are unoccuppied... *shrug* I like my privacy.

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Lwang9276

#3.. i jus dont feel comfortable with the thought of someone jus starin at me.. lol

present_future

I'd hate to deny someone the opportunity to drop a load. It's usually not a problem for me to stand and wait for the next available urinal.

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Borla

I just wait and go in the urinal, unless I REALLY have to go, and there's a line or something. For example, at a bar after hours of drinking.

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VitaminH

See my post above yours: to avoid falling in the toliet!

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StanT

One of the great things about being a guy, the world is our urinal.

I'll go in the first available spot (not the sink), i wouldn't bother with the door.

Blackthorn

Fortunately for me my office is equipped with a multi urinal configuration so this scenario rarely presents itself. The counter consequences however are that many guys feel like that's the perfect place to strike up a conversation. I'm not a fan of this phenomenae and prefer to complete this operation in silence.

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skinnymofo

ill use the toilet (standing ofcourse) and depending on how dirty/lazy im feeling i may or may not latch the door. ill usually just swing it near closed and if it opens, no ones going to see anything unless they turn me around.
so i guess i voted other

maleficent

Ok -- so when you deem it necessary to use a stall - do you have a preference as to which stall? Studies have shown that in a public ladies room, the stall closes to the door is generally the least germy.... do y'all care?

/me is not gonna ask if y'all wash your hands either...

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777

For a time, I was a #2. Then converted to #3. Some guys kept trying to walk in, thinking that a stall with an open door is empty. And let's face it, people are more likely to walk through an open door than a closed one

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maleficent

actually it's germs on the door, the flusher handle, and the lock on the door (not to mention the water faucets and the bathroom door handle itself) there are germs everywhere I tell ya -- everywere...

/me hides under the bed

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StanT

No, why would we care, it's 2 feet away (pole vaulting germs, maybe?). And yes, some of us wash our hands.

spectre

Yes, I wash my hands and then use the paper towel used to dry my hands to open the door for that very reason.

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Jesus Pimp

I hate guys who don't wash their hands. I wash my hands when I enter the bathroom and before I leave. I use paper towels to open door handles.

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Daknjak

I totally agree. This is not the time to discuss anything. I am concentrating hard enough on just loosening up so I can pee if someone is there. I don't need to be asked how it's going or anything about work at that moment.

for the record, I close the door and lock it. I also do this at home. Mostly because one of my dogs noses open the door if it isn't shut, and stares at me wondering I guess, why I don't lift my leg. Maybe not that, but they do stare. And the cats come in to investigate. Talk about stagefright, and trying not to piss on a cat in the process while they have their head over the bowl totally intrigued.

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Redlemon

Well, when you stand at a urinal, there's no door. So, if you are standing in a stall, I was wondering if is it overly fussy to close the door, or is it potentially rude to leave it open? It looks like most people who use the stall close the door either way, so I'll now feel better about doing so.

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Redlemon

I'd forgotten about that. It's been a while since I lived with cats.

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Irishsean

I sit down because its a pain in the ass to pee standing up with a PA and not dribble on yourself!

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Martian

I'm not overly concerned about other guys seeing my dangly bits; I've spent my fair share of time in locker rooms, modesty tends to go the way of the dodo in places like that (you all have to shower after all, unless you're just really disgusting and don't bathe after getting sweaty). So if the urinals are unavailable I'll use a stall but I'm not going to bother closing the door.

I also agree that bathroom conversationalists are just odd. When you're there it's specifically to drain the lizard and I've always been a believer in eyes straight ahead, no talking.

As for people who don't wash their hands.. well, that's just disgusting. I'm hardly a neat freak or anything, but I was taught at a young age that you was your hands after using the washroom and before preparing food. No exceptions.

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shesus

Very interesting discussion going on here. I always wish that I were a guy when I have to go to the bathroom in public. We have no choice. Well, actually we do...

Toilet that's not flushed with pee on the seat
Toilet that is flushed with a pee on the seat
Toilet that looks like it may not have been used yet today
Other, though I'm sure no one lady would choose a nasty unflushed toilet
And of course, the door would be closed

*blech* I agree with mal, germs are everywhere...

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JumpinJesus

I close the stall door even if I'm standing. Of course, that isn't always a safeguard as demonstrated in this thread.

I prefer my privacy whilst engaged in this particular function, maybe I'm a bit kooky this way, but I prefer avoiding circumstances like what happened when shesus and I first started dating. I went to her parents' house for dinner and went to grab a soda. In order to do this, I had to go down to the basement, past one of their bathrooms and what did I see but her father with pants around ankles, bathroom door wide open and whizzing away gleefully. So yeah, I always close the door, even in a public restroom.

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TrumanTT

Living in a dorm for a few years have made me unafraid of any bathroom problems. Ill go with the entire restroom watching me. I just want to go!

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Ambient1

I voted #3... I've had the door swing shut behind me, and then some guy slams the door open thinking the stall is unused. Scares the piss right out of ya!

Ambient1

Depends on whether there are other guys in any of the stalls.If no one else is in the bathroom, I usually pick the farthest one. If there is someone else in the bathroom, the "MPPNBA" rule comes into effect, and there must be a least 1 stall in between occupants (see the International Center for Bathroom Etiquette for more information on the MPPNBA rule).

ShaniFaye

I voted number 3 for Dave....he says #1 his mother always taught him to shut the door so he does it in public bathrooms too by habit and #2 He says some people will do what ambient posted and he hates that

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Daknjak

I was watching some show with George Carlin, and he addresses this issue as such (not verbatim) "Why bother washing your hands? If your that worried, maybe you should be washing what your holding instead?"

Kind of made me think, how many germs does the wang collect just sitting there? Assuming you showered that morning that is. I always wash my hands, with soap in public restrooms. Never at home. I guess in my own house, I don't feel the need. I put it down to this, I don't know what is in a hotdog, but I have never gotten sick from eating one. I don't wash my hands at home, and I have never gotten sick then either.

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Jesus Pimp

I wash my wang before I touch it and after.

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guthmund

Well, a clean wang is a happy wang, right?

I went with #3. I like to do my business in private. I don't want conversation or some stranger pissing on my shoes (it's happened...) so I avoid the urinals like the plague I assume they carry. I use the stall and I close the door. It's just common courtesy. I don't want to see your package, I assume you don't want to see mine.

As for what stall...well, I always pick the handicap stalls. They're usually far away from the door, they're nice, roomy and for some reason always cleaner than the other stalls. I don't know if that's because they see little use and able bodied folks are afraid to use them or if they just do a better job cleaning up after themselves because they feel the plight of the handicapped. Either way, I don't care as long as they're relatively clean.

My roommate used to do everything with the door wide open. It didn't matter what he was doing beforehand, he'd just carry on as if nothing was out of the ordinary. Eat a sandwich, talk on the phone, carry on conversations across the apartment all from his 'throne' in the bathroom. It's not that he had anything to brag about, he just didn't think it was a big deal.

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