Meghan is truuconfessions' art director and social media queen. | 2010-05-27 11:16:21
Girls in the men's room? Men in the ladies room? What's a girl (or a dad with two little ladies) to do when there's no proper place to pee?
I’m constantly trolling the advice columns. In part it consoles me that maybe my problems aren’t so bad, and in part because I want to know if the advice that I would give is as good as the advice given. I have a slew of favorite advice columns, and one is Dear Prudence on Slate.com.
Last week, a father wrote in and asked whether he should take his 1 & 4 year-old daughters into the men’s or the ladies room. He’s been taking his girls into the ladies room, and Prudie let him have it. I can’t say that I agree with the advice given. I am neither a parent, nor a man, but I have spent my fair share of time in the men’s room. With a number of gay male friends, I often find myself at gay clubs with no ladies facilities. I know as a lady it’s pretty hard to pee standing up, plus men’s rooms are gross.
Come to think of it, I often find myself in a position without literally a pot to piss in. Whether I’m on an African safari, camping in the White Mountains, road tripping across the desert, or clubbing it in the city, what’s a girl to do when she can’t sit down—or squat for that matter. I have decided that I had enough of peeing on myself, and I bought myself a funnel.
I confess that I have a pink silicon funnel that I use to pee standing up. Some girls carry extra lipstick in their purse, but I carry a funnel. I’ve had some really embarrassing incidents with it. I once had to explain to my Swahili speaking porter that I wasn’t a hermaphrodite: I just didn’t feel like dropping my pants and squatting at 18000 feet. Someone thought I was tranny and using the wrong bathroom. (Yeah that’s right I’m also confessing that someone thought I was a man dressed as a woman) Although those moments were highly embarrassing, I still won’t give up my funnel. There’s something incredibly liberating about being able to pee standing up. It feels like a giant secret skill that men have known about for ages, and I’m just catching up.
While I am adventurous, and not everyone would find themselves so far removed from modern plumbing, the funnel does have practical everyday uses. Case in point to the father of the two little girls; If you cave to the pressure, and you take your daughters into the men’s room, buy a funnel. It’s lightweight, it rolls up, and it can easily be cleaned in a sink.
Readers weigh in --
If a dad asked if he could bring his two little girls into the ladies room, would you freak out, or would you shrug it off?
Share your embarrassing bathroom (or lack there of) confessions with us in the comments!
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