Tuesday 8 September 2009

the urinal stand

I enjoy being a guy. One of the best traits of being male is the ability to pee anywhere (was great at camp), specifically to stand up. One specific time this is nice is at crowded events such as sporting events and concerts where there is a break in the entertainment and the people go flooding into the washroom and the line for the boys is short and moving quickly while the line for the women is long and slow moving.
As nice as this is I still find the setting in the male washroom interesting. For some reason a lot of guys stand at the urinal far after the liquid has drained. Many times I step up the the porcelain after a guy next to me has already been there for a a little bit and I finish and walk away and the guy is still there. I know he is done peeing for 2 reasons: 1) I don't think anybody can pee for a full minute mid-day (even first thing in the morning its a stretch) 2) if you stand behind them you can tell that no fluid is coming down..... ya, sometimes I look (but never from the side). So I am left wondering why guys do this.
Are they simply enjoying the quiet moment in the large noisy event or are they trying to silently brag? is there some sort of ego posturing where nobody talks and for some reason everyone stands a little bit too long showing everyone else that they have a large bladder? I don't know why this is but the guys standing too long at the urinal is a strange situation.

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