Ideal Bathrooms: Men and Women Edition

For the first time in history, men may now become the gender spending more time in the bathroom.  The Pennsylvania Minor League Baseball Stadium combined two favorites of men, baseball and video games.  In their men’s bathroom, they have installed games in each urinal that are controlled by a man’s aim.  As the game is described in an article on www.deadspin.com, “When a user approaches the urinal, the video console flips into gaming mode, using patented technology that detects both his presence and stream.  Algorithms then allow the user to engage with the screen by aiming in different directions to test their agility and knowledge.  The games are 100% intuitive and custom-built to provide a unique user interface along with an easy and seamless experience.”  I am sure that guys will now want this video game installment at every urinal available.

But what about us girls?  We have reasonable motives for spending so much time in the bathroom: fixing our make-up and hair, gossiping, adjusting our clothing, and calling a friend for advice or escape plan.  Where would we want our ideal bathroom?  What features would make you always running to the powder room?  Here are some responses from girls around campus about what they want their ideal bathroom to have, since men now have their ultimate restroom:

• Hair and Make-Up Essentials: Women want to touch up their looks, but they do not want to be carrying around a twenty pound bag with all the essentials.  The ideal bathroom should have cotton balls, brushes, combs, straighteners, blow dryers, lipstick, bronzer, hairspray, and mouthwash.  Would it even be too much to ask for hair stylists and make-up artists?

• Flip-Flop Dispensers: After a night of wearing heels, all women want to do is put on some comfortable shoes.  It would be great if we could grab a quick pair from the bathroom so we don’t have to walk home in heels as our feet suffer blisters.
• Cell-phone and laptop chargers, especially in school restrooms.
• Magazines: Whether in the stall or waiting in line, magazines to pass the time in pleasure would be a great addition.
• Heated floors and toilet seats: We go to school in Boston; enough said.
• Good Lighting and Full-Length Mirrors: Current bathrooms are doing us no good with awful fluorescent lights and minute mirrors that only let us see the tops of our foreheads.  Something needs to be done to change that
• Pump-Up, Feel Good Music: Women are known to start their own dance parties in their bathrooms at home.  Why not bring it to public restrooms and have a bigger celebration?  No one will be dancing to the monotonous elevator music that bathrooms are currently playing.
• Solutions for all wardrobe malfunctions: You never know what can go wrong when out and about.  It would be great to have basic solutions, like Band-Aids, pantyhose, bobby pins, safety pins and double-sided tape in the bathroom available.  Then a little wardrobe malfunction won’t have to ruin your day or deplete your confidence of strutting your stuff.

If men are able to get extra perks to their bathroom experience, then these simple requests from women for their bathroom can easily be met.  To any future contractors working on or near the Boston College campus, I advise you to keep these desires in mind.

Article Source:

http://deadspin.com/minor-league-baseball-stadium-to-turn-urinals-into-vide-459156194

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