The Ladies Room
Nov 17th, 2006 by Past Author
I travel quite a bit, so I find myself in many airport ladies rooms all over the country. Most of the time the ladies room has lots and lots of stalls–20 or even 40! Dontchya just love it when there’s nobody else in the ladies room, and yet, along comes “a customer” and low and behold, she chooses the stall right next to yours?! :) What is that about? That has always amazed me. Maybe I’m just imagining it? :)
I do believe this is to throw everyone off…if another person comes in after them they will not be able to tell where the sound or(excuse me for a moment)the odor is coming from….safety in numbers. LOL! Want to really freak them out? Tap on the stall wall and ask, “So how’s it going?” I’m sure they will leave quickly…
What is it with US restrooms (or toilets as we say in the UK). Why doesn’t the door cover the doorspace fully. For a country that gets so upset at the sight of Janet Jackson’s nipple I find it so strange that it is OK to wait in line at a public toilet and be able to see what the person in ths stall is doing. No I don’t look if I can help it but some of the door gaps are huge.
Well have you thought about this…maybe you are just picking the closet closest to the door you just came in to…cos its the most convenient..and the next person is also choosing the next vacant closet to yours…thats what i do…cos i usually have to be desperate to use a public ladies loo, not being a fan of them at the best of times. Just a thought.
Oh man, don’t get me started on the European toilets! Wow…never knew a toilet could be flushed in so many ways!!!
Funny story…could be a RANT…when we spent 2 weeks touring Europe 2 summers ago my teen daughter took photos of all the restrooms and made a Toilet Tour of Europe scrapbook! LOL! I had warned her ahead of time as we lived in Europe for 5 years…that…well our idea of a “rest stop” might not be the same as over in Europe. One rest stop the ladies “toilet” was…ah…standing over a funnel shaped hole in the ground…when my daughter opened the stall door she said, “Oh THIS is just WRONG!” LOL!!
I’ve heard UK people complain about the “crack in the door” before. I don’t know why the door doesn’t cover the space completely, but why is it important? Here’s the way I look at this issue, only pervs are going to try to “peak” through the opening, right? Plus, over here the word “toilet” is the actual stool. I’m not sure where we got the term “Ladies Room” or “Restroom”. But I would never ask anyone, “Where is the toilet?” Just RANTIN’ here. :)
Having just returned from a week in NYC, can I add something? Since when can a queue for the loo lasting over 15 mins, ever be considered a restful experience? So why then in Macys,is the restroom/ bathroom /toilet/ loo (insert colloquial terminology here)….signposted as “Ladies Lounge”?? By the time we realised that this was the place we were searching for, our bladders were entering themselves for the Guiness book of Records having seen how far they can stretch without having the need to cough, sneeze or heaven forbid, laugh! And when we do eventually find the right place…..Kids and Parents all jumbling around, foreigners (that’s us folks), dressed for the cold NYC weather, collecting puddles around our feet from all the perspiration gathering due to the slightly excessive use of layering , 3,000 over-sized shopping bags with nowhere to put them once you get lucky enough to get into a loo, soap dispensers that you wave at, press, twist, wink at………jeesh I didn’t realise how much technology was available…..loo rolls that you can never find the end of and you sit there wildly spinning the thing around (and that is worthy of its very own rant on another day!)….knowing for all the world that there are 30 people outside all listening to you, waiting for the loo roll holder to spin itself clear off it’s hinges, and probably watching you through that chasm of a gap in the door (just what IS that all about!)
Hardly a relaxing, recouperative , recharge your batteries kind of experience is it? Is that some kind of in-house NYC joke then to give it that title of Ladies Lounge? The men have the same title for their loos….the mind can only boggle!