The differences between
Male and
Female restroom behavior really didn't strike me until my first year of
college. I had always just assumed that a restroom was the same no matter what configuration the vaguely
human shape on the door was. Evidently I was wrong. I was feeling ill in class one day. I was probably muttering and complaining a lot about my
headache.
A girl sitting close to me offered this advice, "Why don't you go lie down in the bathroom until you feel better?"
I was shocked. Lie down in the bathroom! I glanced around and felt justified that all the guys in ear shot looked just as shocked as I.
"Why on
gods green earth would I want to lie in the bathroom?" All the while I was thinking, where, would I lie in the bathroom. On the floor amongst the errant
urine? Across the top of the
sink counter, that would invariably be covered with pools of water?
"Just lay on the couch and relax", she offered.
Couch! Was she high? Couch!? What the hell was she talking about.
This warranted investigation.
A group of my
friends and I stood and exited the classroom mid-lecture. We marched down the hall and entered the women’s restroom.
There, sitting along one luxuriously clean wall was a couch. It was
one of the strangest things I have ever seen. It smelled nice too. It was if we had entered a
parallel dimension. Only, the inhabitants of this strange new world didn't
pee all over the floor in their haste to exit as quickly as possible and with as little socialization as necessary to satisfy their
bladder tasks.