The art of creating unusual urinal experiences
Today I had brunch with my sister, brother in law and what I assume are still their kids 
It was as interesting as a family get together is, however this pleasant sunny Sunday experience became a little unusual when I decided to use the bathroom at the resturant we were at. For any female readers, what you have to understand is that most men’s public restrooms contain the urinal and that these come in many different shapes and sizes, however there is a standard, and even a code of conduct at such facilities.
Usually, in my opinion, a well kept urinal is free of distractions. However this, depending on the establishment, can depend on what you may be presented with… to piss on when you use any given urinal. What is pretty standard, are these incredibly pungeant round ‘pebble’ like jelly things, that excude such a strong smell of what I can only imagine is the supposed scent of fresh pine. These stinky pebbles that are highly effective in creating the masking scent common of a public restroom, but always just barely enough as underneath all this hardcore disinfectant pungeant smell there is always an underlying smell of pee. These small balls of sickly sweet smelling chemical cleaners seem to only ever come in two colours. Pink and blue and even that is reserved to what I can only suspect must be the cheapest blue dye and pink dye on the market, when these pebbles of sterility are manufactured.
On the odd occasion I have encountered urinals filled with ice, foam and other – cheaper varieties of the stock standard pungeant pebble of smell… that is until today.
Today I was presented with this to pee on:
It even had some marketing on it – which gave me a small sense of joy knowing I had every right to pee on. What is it? I can only describe what you are looking at as a urinal mat – like a door mat – however for pee. I dared not touch it, however I had the sense it was jelly like to a degree however when you have a jet of hot urine ejecting from your body you do count on the smooth procelain surface of the urinal to repell… er… collateral random spray. Now can you imagine the joy I had with this little numba in the urinal.
I can almost guarantee 0% effort went into the design of this urine matt smell thing when considering the interaction of it’s use and the actual use of urinal, however it certainly scores points for the manufactures not being cheap about the dye used to colour their new little addition to things-you-might-piss-on-in-a-public-urinal. I’m keen to email the email address I pee’d on to order some of these for my toilet at home… maybe to even use as shower mat.
