Sanctuary 
Girls in Toilets
Woot bout of insomnia again! What's new... I wonder if YIH carries sleeping pills at a discount to students... heehee... But I digress....
Amusing post on handicapped toilets I have just read on Xiaxue's site. (Ya I do read her blog *gigglez* how else could I entertain myself at 5am... Lee Weiming, I blame you! heehee..) http://xiaxue.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-am-hungrrrrrry.html.
What amuses me about that post is that I do use handicapped toilets all the time. Especially in one shopping centre in Orchard. While I don't exactly agree with what she has to say about the rights of the handicapped and the toilets 'assigned' to them, I rather agree with the reasons on why she thinks it is alright to use them. Ok.. REASON, not reasons - it is unlikely that a handicapped person would need to use the toilet in that space of time in which I am in it. And yes, like her, if a handicapped person actually appeared, I would so definitely let him/her use the toilet first.
And this brings me to the point of this post. I really don't know what girls do in the toilet that makes the queues in the ladies so much longer than those in the gents (apologies to one of my ex-profs, but no matter what you say, I seriously don't think people could ever call the gents, erm lords.... =P). It is beyond me. I usually take like 1 min in there and am out. The only time I take longer is when I am having that girly thingy, and even when I do, it sometimes still takes only 1 min. Ya la... I tested as male on that silly gender test (http://community.sparknotes.com/gender/) every single time I took it, and the testers are more sure than I am male than everyone on my friend's list, with the exception of one person (thankfully, anatomatically male). But what DO girls do in there that takes them so long? Can't possibly be putting on makeup in the cubicle right? I also don't think having to sit on the bowl makes it that much longer >.<. So for efficiency's sake, I use the handicapped toilets, markedly those that are the unisex ones outside the male/female toilets, simply coz there is no queue, and the most a geniunely handicapped person would have to wait would be 2 mins. Now that the shopping centre I referred to previously actually managed to spawn like 20 cubicles in the female toilet (I don't know how they did it! But I am so happy!), I have not gone to their handicapped toilet (on that floor at least haha). That post on Xiaxue's blog and the comments about the handicapped toilets have, however, caused me to wonder. There are obviously people who think that since there are so few handicapped people as compared to nonhandicapped people, it is a waste of resources to for the nonhandicapped ones to use the handicapped cubicles when they are not being occupied. I vaguely agree with this. So following this argument, we girls should just use the male toilets which are usually so empty with no queues. Ok la, let's face the fact. I've actually never thought of doing that before in a crowded shopping centre, mainly based on the fact that some polite guy will probably usher me out of the toilet. Risk of that happening when using handicapped toilet near 0. But I think now that the idea has been planted, I will probably try some day xD.
Don't worry guys, I promise not to peek at you in the urinal.
Amusing post on handicapped toilets I have just read on Xiaxue's site. (Ya I do read her blog *gigglez* how else could I entertain myself at 5am... Lee Weiming, I blame you! heehee..) http://xiaxue.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-am-hungrrrrrry.html.
What amuses me about that post is that I do use handicapped toilets all the time. Especially in one shopping centre in Orchard. While I don't exactly agree with what she has to say about the rights of the handicapped and the toilets 'assigned' to them, I rather agree with the reasons on why she thinks it is alright to use them. Ok.. REASON, not reasons - it is unlikely that a handicapped person would need to use the toilet in that space of time in which I am in it. And yes, like her, if a handicapped person actually appeared, I would so definitely let him/her use the toilet first.
And this brings me to the point of this post. I really don't know what girls do in the toilet that makes the queues in the ladies so much longer than those in the gents (apologies to one of my ex-profs, but no matter what you say, I seriously don't think people could ever call the gents, erm lords.... =P). It is beyond me. I usually take like 1 min in there and am out. The only time I take longer is when I am having that girly thingy, and even when I do, it sometimes still takes only 1 min. Ya la... I tested as male on that silly gender test (http://community.sparknotes.com/gender/) every single time I took it, and the testers are more sure than I am male than everyone on my friend's list, with the exception of one person (thankfully, anatomatically male). But what DO girls do in there that takes them so long? Can't possibly be putting on makeup in the cubicle right? I also don't think having to sit on the bowl makes it that much longer >.<. So for efficiency's sake, I use the handicapped toilets, markedly those that are the unisex ones outside the male/female toilets, simply coz there is no queue, and the most a geniunely handicapped person would have to wait would be 2 mins. Now that the shopping centre I referred to previously actually managed to spawn like 20 cubicles in the female toilet (I don't know how they did it! But I am so happy!), I have not gone to their handicapped toilet (on that floor at least haha). That post on Xiaxue's blog and the comments about the handicapped toilets have, however, caused me to wonder. There are obviously people who think that since there are so few handicapped people as compared to nonhandicapped people, it is a waste of resources to for the nonhandicapped ones to use the handicapped cubicles when they are not being occupied. I vaguely agree with this. So following this argument, we girls should just use the male toilets which are usually so empty with no queues. Ok la, let's face the fact. I've actually never thought of doing that before in a crowded shopping centre, mainly based on the fact that some polite guy will probably usher me out of the toilet. Risk of that happening when using handicapped toilet near 0. But I think now that the idea has been planted, I will probably try some day xD.
Don't worry guys, I promise not to peek at you in the urinal.
posted by Shelly at 11:57 PM
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