5. Visiting the Public Restroom
For many women, visiting the public restroom is more than just a trip to the bathroom. It’s a social occasion. Women bring friends! They stand and adjust themselves in the mirror, apply makeup touch ups to themselves and each other, gossip, talk politics, do their hair! The actual act of going to the bathroom is secondary to all of the other stuff.
Men go in to do their business and get out. There is an unspoken rule among men that there is no gossiping or fixing each other’s outfits and hair. You are to never look at one another while using a urinal. That is considered the equivalent of a woman standing on the toilet and leaning over the stall door of another and yelling ‘Surprise! What’s going on down there?”. Men don’t bring friends to the restroom. Going to the restroom is a one-man operation for a man.
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