Article for Debate: Urinal Sanctity
Items in Red are in contention, and require discussion and approval.
We, the Men, do hereby declare that, in any bathroom containing not less than three urinals, a Man shall make every effort to maintain a one-urinal distance from any other Man. It is the American Custom to halt conversation during the period of time spent in the bathroom in front of the Urinal. Conversation may resume upon reaching the hand washing stage.
Mandated Exceptions
- Clogging or other functionality issue with Urinal in correct proximal distance.
- Urgency in extremis can create an exception so long as Sanctity of the Eyes is maintained.
- For training purposes, a Urinal may be used communally, although care must be taken not to disrupt fellow urinal patrons while training is underway.
- Those born outside the US are partially exempted from this rule, in that they will gain no penalty, but the US born conversational partner should wait until the appropriate stage to reply. In no circumstances should eye contact be made!!!
I think there needs to be a clause for conversation. Something like “No recognition can be made that someone familiar or friendly is standing adjacent to you while still at the urinal. Recognition can only be made when 1 or more parties reach the sink - one can shout a greeting from the sink to the party that still remains at the urinal or engage in conversation once both parties reach the appropriate had washing station.”
The exception to this is the case where it involves a coworker from a foreign land that does not have the same personal space requirements if, _andonlyif_ the rules of urinal engagement are explained to them at a later date.
Nothing is worse then the guy boosting his 2-5 year old son up to pee in the middle urinal.
THis is the guy that chose the middle urinal because it provides the most room for him to boost his son up to pee.. all the while coaching and encouraging his boy to pee “like a big boy”
anyone that walks in is thus forced to use one of the adjacent urinals and feel ostracized by the father son urinating team next to you. The father does not even have the good taste to coach along all the other guys trying to also use the urinals, instead you are left to feel left out of urinating 101 that is occuring next to you