Just about every male has seen, read, or heard about the set of informal rules that govern urinal logistics. In any public restroom, there’s a delicate ballet of penile placement that takes into account such factors as: persons-to-urinals ratio, “gap” or “buffer” analysis, the presence of dividers, and the availability of other facilities (stalls, sinks, other bathrooms).
But a friend recently posed a question to me regarding an area of urinal etiquette that is often overlooked. And I’ll admit that I don’t have an answer.
What are the rules on Urinal Farts?
You see, there’s this unexplicable phenomena that occurs when many men urinate which causes them to relieve more than one part of their body at the same time. In many cases, this is accomplished by the simple yet effective lean-slightly-forward-and-spit maneuver. However in other cases, urinal discharge is often accompanied by a gaseous one. I think we’ve all experienced it..standing there, analyzing the tenant’s choice of tiles on the wall 8 inches from our face, when the awkward silence is broken by the sound of an anus breathing a sigh of relief two urinals over.
Hell, I’m sure all of us have been guilty of this at some point.
So what are the rules that govern this sort of behavior? What are the boundaries? Is the separation between the rest of world and the bathroom all that is necessary, or does one need the additional boundary of the bathroom stall to make it okay?
