People can’t leave toilets alone. They keep fussing with the concept of a toilet, arriving at the most bizarre iterations. At a restaurant in Quebec City today, I saw the most insane set-up so far.
You enter the toilet through a door and see that it has some stalls with doors. In the same space where people are waiting for their turn to enter a stall, there are urinals. Here’s what it looks like:
The restaurant is popular, and there’s always a group of women of all ages mulling in front of the stalls, waiting their turn, washing their hands, looking in the mirrors. Can you imagine a man who’d whip out his penis and start using the urinal right there? Why wouldn’t the women call the police? We were at that restaurant with my 16-year-old niece. Who but the most unhinged pedo would use the urinal? Thankfully, everybody at the restaurant was normal and nobody used the urinals. But imagine how bad the situation can get if just one weirdo comes there to eat.
Even without the open-air urinals, the set-up is dumb. Men don’t want to hang out with women in front of the toilet stalls. Women don’t want to emerge from a stall and see men hovering around. As a result, there were no men at all in the vicinity of that toilet. I have no idea what men do for their needs but that restaurant has no accommodation for them.
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I was once at a fancy restaurant with transparent bathroom doors. But when you lock the door they supposedly went opaque. So weird.
Amanda
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People actually waste money on these weird setups. I really don’t get it.
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There are coed bathrooms with urinals in some parts of Western Europe (my parents encountered some while traveling decades ago.) But approximately zero non-pervert Americans or Canadians would feel comfortable with this. And the setup is so odd; based on this picture, the bit where the urinals are doesn’t even feel like a bathroom, but more like you’re taking a whizz in front of the entire general public. The average man doesn’t like using the urinal right next to another man, he definitely doesn’t want to use this.
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The Canadian government reliably informs me that women routinely have penises. Can’t argue with that. Hence the urinals.
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