Restroom Protocol

[DARE]

Texas A&M and the University of Texas played a football game recently. First time in more than a decade. Reminded me of an anecdote.
A couple of college students were at the urinals during a football game. One stopped to wash his hands, the other left the restroom without doing that. The first student said, "you know at Texas A&M they teach us to wash our hands after using the urinal." Second student says, "yeah, at Texas they teach us not to pee on our hands."

 

[robvious]

it's better when told by the Jesuit principal of an all boys school at a pep rally...

 

[Rustyt1953]

This is why mom had me put dimes in my penny loafers.

 

[tlawler]

This is why mom had me put dimes in my penny loafers.

Lol…clever

 

[Kinman]

I will admit to having paid a dime to take a **** but after I was shown how to use a bent bobby-pin on a pay phone receiver I never paid for a pay phone until they went digital.

 

[Onomea]

I used to see bobby pins all over the place. Now I realize I haven't seen one in.... a very, very long time. Maybe after payphones went away, so did bobby pins...

 

[Kinman]

Bobby-pins worked best, just open up to 90 degrees, insert one end into the center of the transmitter piece, touch the other to the vault key entrance...under the right light you could see the spark arc, you then got a dial-tone. That was shown to me by one of my greaser hoodlum buddies back in high school when I hit him up for a dime to make a quick call, of course he swore me to secrecy and true to form I never told anyone. One thing you had to remember was to get the little plastic tip protector off before attempting to do the trick. I carried one around in my wallet that was worn shiney.

 

[Rustyt1953]

"Here I sit all broken hearted..."

 

[swsig]

This is why mom had me put dimes in my penny loafers.

Good thing, because a lot of people don't give a dime.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

When you live with a house full of women the seat stays down. Now a days it doesn't matter, I live alone.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[JohnRippert]

When you live with a house full of women the seat stays down. Now a days it doesn't matter, I live alone.

I was well trained. It still stays down, even with only me in the house.

 

[Bald1]

Speaking of football venues. I can remember as a kid going to Bills game at what was then Rich Stadium. Same stadium as today but before two overhauls costing 10s of millions each time. When you walked into men’s room there were no urinals. There was a long stainless steel trough to pee in. People standing on both sides. Thankfully is was wide. There were no real lines people just standing around looking for an opening. As you can imagine this was all very traumatic for a 12 yr old.

 

[steelslaver]

There was a bar in Ketchican AK that had a stainless trough. I have seen plenty of those, but, Ketchican was a huge cruise ship tourist trap and when one evening several Asian tourist wearing camera came in and went straight to the john, the lady who owned it explained to me that a lot of them were fascinated by the urinal and took pictures of it. I thought it was hilarious because I though a lot of Asian toilets were kind of odd.

I have also seen quite a few of those big circular marble wash stations where a bunch of people can use the faucets operated by a foot bar. Odd thing about one I know of is it has several signs on it saying this is not a urinal. LOL

 

[Rustyt1953]

On my brother's first trip to China he sent me this pic with the caption "send more socks".

 

[45Smashemflat]

Beach side bar, long galvanized urinal, filled with ice….

 

[CalifEd]

Speaking of football venues. I can remember as a kid going to Bills game at what was then Rich Stadium. Same stadium as today but before two overhauls costing 10s of millions each time. When you walked into men’s room there were no urinals. There was a long stainless steel trough to pee in. People standing on both sides. Thankfully is was wide. There were no real lines people just standing around looking for an opening. As you can imagine this was all very traumatic for a 12 yr old.

One time at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, the line for the Women's bathroom was looong.
One women, fed up with waiting, just moved over and went to the Men's room because there was no waiting and SHE had to go.
Should have heard the squeals, squeaks and watched the rushing bodies going out the door; you would have thought the teacher just invaded the grade school bathroom where smoking was going on.
Thankfully, peace was quickly restored because she did her business and left and she was the only one that crossed the potty line.

 

[GypsmJim]

Speaking of football venues. I can remember as a kid going to Bills game at what was then Rich Stadium. Same stadium as today but before two overhauls costing 10s of millions each time. When you walked into men’s room there were no urinals. There was a long stainless steel trough to pee in. People standing on both sides. Thankfully is was wide. There were no real lines people just standing around looking for an opening. As you can imagine this was all very traumatic for a 12 yr old.

We often went to various bars for Friday fishfries. As a kid in the 1950's I can't remember a bar in the east side or in South Buffalo that did NOT have an open trough.

The men's bathrooms at the Erie County fair back then had troughs and stalls, but NONE of the stalls had doors.

I once traveled on the "turnpike" in the south of France, and every so often there was a rest stop with meticulous bathrooms. The men's urinals looked more like a bidet, with no protruding sides to enable even a little bit of privacy. The rooms also had female attendants. Once I was attending to bizness and the girl came over and started to clean the one right next to me. Her eyes were not focused on he job though. I wondered at the time if she was just making sure I didn't dribble on the floor.

 

[dockmurgw]

I have also seen quite a few of those big circular marble wash stations where a bunch of people can use the faucets operated by a foot bar.

This brings back memories...they were called bird baths. Every shop had them in the tech school I went to.

 

[dockmurgw]

Waters cold...deep to. Fill in the blanks and figure it out.