“it’s an unwritten rule among men that eye contact is never made. Just do your thing and get out.”
Excellent point. There ARE protocols for each, which are very different, and make the normal occupants VERY uncomfortable when transgressed.
There are reasons for gender segregated washrooms, which will be rediscovered at great cost.
You gotta kill the time. The first thing you do is you inscribe your initials on the urinal. Then they run a little bit, then you wet down the entire urinal. “Wet down! Wet down! Wet down entire urinal! Cover all of the dry spots! Gotta get ‘em all! Every one! Gotta look, see if the light is shining.” Then..Then and only then are you allowed to go after the cigarettes at the bottom of the urinal! Targets of opportunity! Yeah. You had to break up them cigarettes. Field strip ‘em, my friend. Camels and Luckys were easy...but a Kent with a micronite filter. Takes three guys and a keg of beer. “C’mon guys! Hey...c’mon. Let’s go, man”
-George Carlin