urinals

one phenomena i've never grasped is how people can manage to get so much urine on the floor when they are using a urinal. i've come to suspect it has a great deal to do with poor urinal design.

if you look at those small roundish urinals, i'll bet you notice far less piss on the floor than under the tall urinals. it has something to do with how far the little trough sticks out. while the tall-boy urinals accommodate a variety of user heights (what do you call people who urinate? urinators?).

for those not necessary with various urinal design, check out the american standard website and view the 'urinals'. these guys make the majority of the urinals i encounter regularly. while you would think these designs are pretty efficient, they still lead to major leakage.

men seem to be very sloppy and lazy when it comes to urinating (or, "taking a slash" as an aussie coworker used to amuse me by saying). sometimes one has to spread their legs far apart to avoid stepping in a giant puddle of other people's urine. is it that a few drops leads to a lot, or is it that a few people miss their target by a long shot?

i only care to know insofar as it leads to someone designing better urinals so i don't step in it.

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well it's been a few days since i wrote this, and i've noticed that even the small bowl urinals don't do the job properly.

perhaps i'm missing the problem here - it's highly probable that the urinals are all excellent at doing what they are designed to do. it's simply that men aren't.

this seems like such a stupid thing to bother writing about, but when you are forced to side-step enough puddles of other people's piss you grow tired and irritable.

i'm going to get started on some kind of electrified floor design or one with sensors that makes a loud announcement when you've dribbled on the floor.

{November 09, 2003 03:19 PM}