[Columbine]

The sound machines in the ladies are really annoying. It's so easy to knock into the infra-red with your elbow (espec. if you're left-handed) and then get blasted by birds tweeting or the sound of running water at 100 decibels.

I've seen urinals in the ladies loos in Japan too and wondered about that until I happened to be in there when a mother came in with her quite small son. Although i really should have guessed; they were very low off the ground.

I don't care about touching things when I'm in the bathroom. It's less wasteful to wash your hands well than use umpty-billion paper towels all the time. Drives me nuts. I lived with a chinese girl who clogged the toilets all the time because she'd steal napkins from the cafeteria to put on the seat before she used it. Although, I wouldn't blame guys for being picky about touching door handles in public loos because I used to work in a pub where the sinks for the toilets were outside the actual area with the stalls. And most men just sailed on by. Gross.

My town came up with a nifty way to stop drunks peeing on the streets, incidentally. We've got pop-up urinals that appear after dark on the weekends.