why isn't there a drain in the floor at urinals?

seriously, every time i go in to the bathroom there's piss all over the floor, and just installing a grate or drain would solve it. or why hasn't something else been invented, i'm tired of standing in people's pee.

Posted Aug 4, 2011, 4:37 AM UTC

014
bru_tech•

there's usually a "catch-all" drain in every bathroom for flood purposes. I've used these a few times while in 3rd grade

2
leadpipecinchOP•

yeah there's the big drain in the middle, but the pee doesn't run in to it...

1
bru_tech•

if it makes you feel any better, i went to a soccer game in Germany a few years back (Kaiserslautern was in the playoffs) and at the half, there was a massive line to the men's room that put off enough folks that they found a little corner next to it and pissed there. there was a river of piss you almost had to wade through. Definantly a No Flip-Flop day for sure

1
leadpipecinchOP•

ugh that's just horribly disgusting.

1
bru_tech•

it was eye opening. but we walk through some horrible stuff all day long, so as long as you have on shoes and the piss isn't deep, it'll all be off your shoe a few steps from leaving the bathroom

1
juru1876•

I think they just expect people not to piss all over the floor. Which they shouldn't. However, grates underneath the urinals are a decent idea and I think I have seen those before.

1
Oneof793•

I feel like people would still manage to piss in a place that you would have to stand in. Furthermore, who's gonna clean out the piss drain when it gets nasty? Not me, I'll tell ya that much.

1
neverpullout•

People clean drains?

1
Oneof793•

All the time. I had to do it bimonthly when I was working at Starbucks.

1
leadpipecinchOP•

oof didn't think about that, that'd certainly be a bad job.

1
[deleted]•

Because we would try and piss in them for every place possible in the bathroom

1
hunterprince•

i like the urinals that go all the way to the ground.

1
Kanadian•

It makes me laugh that people who are afraid of a little urine don't realize that the very water they are drinking right now has almost certainly been through the bladder of a dinosaur, a fish of any other animal (including fellow human beings). Fact and matter is that the water molecules on the earth today have been here since the beginning of times and have been drank and pissed multiple times :P

1
[deleted]•

I got nothing.

0