by Hugo Reed

Created on: December 12, 2008

Ah, and here a subject we can all well remember growing up throughout middle school, high school and college. What to do when you have a full bladder in the middle of a class period. First off, let me say this is from a man's point of view, so it's a little different. I can't be excepted to know the inter workings and relationships of a woman's bathroom for I have been in one only once, for a drug test.

Now, we all know that it would be foolish to think that all public toilets are as neat and sparkling as the noon-day star, but a lot of them are honestly repulsive. If this were a subject of having to spew out solid waste, I would say it is not contest between holding it in or sitting on the peed on toilet seat. However, as we (again, this is purely within the case of men) are talking about using urinals, I think I can give my personal opinion on such a thing.

Let's face it, public toilet seat can be gross, even more so than usual if the person who used it before you forgot to wipe properly, or if they lost their lunch, or if they flat-out can't aim the fine yellow stream. Personally, I have often found some oddly questionable device leaking either within or on top of my seat and now no longer much care for it.

It has gotten so that I have had to space solid waste dumps around my meetings, classes and another other public situation. I only will spew solid waste into my own toilet at home, or into one at a hotel. (Actually, in honesty I probably trust the hotel's a little more than my own, as someone is getting paid to clean theirs.) But, I digress, I believe I was discussing public urinals.

Personally, I have yet to find much of anything very terribly wrong with them. True, every now and again you are bound to find some immature moron who stuff paper towels into it, or some freak who wants to grow his own fungus into the space hanging down from top. But (given that you can ignore the hopeless crude slander and swearing gratified on the walls) you can use a urinal and be perfectly fine about 99% of the time.

Now, ladies and gentlemen, consider this. You must be in a high school for seven hours every single day. (Usually longer in college but high schoolers have the worst toilets.) Couple that with the fact that they are probably putting sodas and water into their system and I would personally be very surprised if they didn't have to pee althroughout the school day.

So, really, in closing, I think it's fine to use them, as long as you at least take a quick look at what you'll be peeing on.

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