When You Gotta Go, You Gotta Go, Girl!
We’re sitting in a production of Les Miz on Broadway, closing in on intermission. “Get ready,” I whisper frantically to my husband, sitting on the aisle. “The minute she sings that last note, I’m climbing over you and sprinting up the aisle.” He looks at me like I am possessed. “Whaddya mean? What’s the rush?” What’s the RUSH? Any woman reading this knows just the rush I am talking about. Intermission means the mad dash to get on line for the ladies room.
Okay, the curtain's closing, the lights are going up, and it's go, go, go! But, invariably, by the time I sprint down the aisle and to the facilities located in the bowels of the theater, there's already a line of 67 other women snaking along the hallway leading to the ladies room. Yet, just a few guys are self-consciously slipping in and out of the men's room.
So what’s up with that exactly? Don’t real guys relieve themselves? And haven’t they heard of what we moms call the “preventative pee” – as in, “go now even if you don’t have to ‘cause who knows when you’ll have another opportunity”?
PS: And why can’t theaters build bigger ladies rooms anyway?
Comments
I hate how long the line for the ladies room always is at a play. You never want to get up to go to the bathroom during the play because you don't want to miss it. But, by the time you get up to the front of the line, intermission is over and you do miss some of the play. It just isn't fair that guys never wait in line. Girls definitely need bigger restrooms.
What I can't comphrend is why it takes my husband 20 minutes at home to use the bathroom but less than a minute in public? I think he falls asleep on the toilet at home. Ha!
I was at the movies once, seeing a film that became very popular in the gay community. When my friend and I were leaving the theater, we saw that the line for the men's room stretched out the door and there was no one in line for the women's room. My friend and I gawked so loudly that we got the whole line of men laughing at us!
That's why I love going to sporting events. The mens' rooms have huge lines and I casually stroll into the ladies room with no wait.
