After reading my emails and the fly in the pissour in holand it might be interesting to you that they might be bringing a ladies pissour out. So to Pee or not to Pee might give a few responses.
AS IT WAS I was at a concert recently and during the interval joined the usual half-time conga for the loo. It wasn’t too long a wait and I knew that chaps can usually be relied upon to ‘get on with it’ in a brisk fashion. My nearest and dearest, however, was in the rather longer queue for the Ladies. She told me the following story: “There was a girl in front of me who was clearly uncomfortable. She was shifting from foot to foot and biting her lip. As the three-minute bell rang she gulped said, ‘I’m sorry’ and pulled down her trousers and squatted over a drain in the tiled floor. I wish I had her nerve!”
I have often heard ladies bemoaning the inequality of toiletry provision. One facility for a chap can be used about five times quicker than in the ladies queue. Why then, many argue, can’t some of the room for the men be given over to the girls? The trouble is, girls, if you start taking away facilities from the chaps they’ll find alternate methods. Like nipping out to the car park – and that wouldn’t be nice, would it? But, I agree there is an inequality. So, what could be done?
Well, back in 2001 a sanitary-ware manufacturer produced a women’s urinal called the ‘Lady P’ that was meant to alleviate the above wait. However, Lady P was withdrawn in 2005 due to poor sales. But now there’s been a groundswell of fresh interest and it’s possible that a re-launch it in the UK is on the cards.
Lady P was the brainchild of industrial design graduate, and her aim (get it?) was to both speed up the queues in ladies’ lavatories while also improving hygiene. “How does it work, ?” I hear many of you ask. Hmmm, how can I put this delicately? Okay, well, apparently, the user is meant to ‘hover’ rather than sit during the erm, ‘relivement’ process. Or as JF and the boys would more eloquently put it: “The Lady P principal is ‘piss and go’.”
Did you know, chaps, that urinals for women aren’t a new phenomenon? Oh no, and my great-auntie tells of using them in the fifties. She describes them as being a bit like a narrow bidet that you straddled. I suppose that’s okay when you’re wearing a skirt and stockings but try it in trousers or tights and... No wonder they weren’t very popular.
They’re quite stylish, they’re broader, and stand out further from the wall, than a men’s one Side-by-side privacy is assured by the glass partitions, but they’re open to the front. I suppose this is to encourage the user to be as quick as possible. There’s a hook to hang your bag on and a handrail to steady yourself while you strike the pose – a variation on the ‘hover’ technique. And there’s even an array of tiny graphics to make sure you know which way to face. That’s for the blondes,they are smart but would your better half use one? Hmm, I’m not sure, probably as through my investigation most women don't sit down on the seat they hover above it,they only sit down on their own loo. The question of Lady P still appears to be: “to pee or not pee; that is the question . Open for discussion,
So TITS till next time Magic.
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