Observations at the Mall...a funny thing happened on the way to the RR

I posted earlier that the family had a Feast of a lunch yesterday at Greenwich and I then grabbed two wonderful books! Since we were already at the Mall then , the wife decided to buy some essential items from the supermarket and I dropped by the RR to wash my hands! On my way to the restroom (RR) , I noticed a very long queue by the ladies' door almost blocking the path heading to the men's door.

And so not wanting to be bothered , I just quickly went about my main business there in the first
place !

Now here's the more interesting part : I noticed this kinda' old lady in the long anxious line of women leading to the RR who was grumbling so loud . It wasn't really clear to me that time what exactly her beef was until I reflected (?) on it on my way out of the RR area. She in fact was saying out loud that " only one woman is able to enter for every five men coming out... " --- in the dialect! The same enlightening phrase she was repeating ever so loudly every time a man or woman comes out of the RR !

By golly ! Mama Mia... She was counting and noting each and every man and woman coming out of the RR while she was agonizing for her turn at the cubicle! How genius and so disciplined...can you beat that stunt? The not so old lady was so anxious to " let go" in what seemed like eternal waiting and simultaneously having the presence of mind to count ( loudly!) pedestrian flow from the men's or women's RR? Come on... give me a break!

Indeed she was a rarity! Have you seen anyone putting the hold but ready to let go of one's bladder in protracted anticipation while observing people traffic from the RR? And, to top it all, she still managed to grumble almost shouting in litany form. Or,to put it more dramatically, grumbling almost to a trance perhaps as a means to deal with the discomfort and control the imminent" overflow" ?

This was an extraordinary woman , indeed ! One for Ripley's or Guinness' ?




Now , my curiosity is awakened once more...shouldn't there be more cubicles for the ladies in their RRs considering that , by nature , they have more difficulty "letting it go" ?

Compared to men, women have a longer series of rituals to follow before being able to relieve themselves, don't they? Also, women have more "finishing touches " to perform after each and every "relief effort" . In this case , we can say women are more ritualistic than men... so why do they have less RR cubicles in the Malls? Can "urinals" be designed for women for a more efficient and faster "female relief" at the Mall ? Why hasn't women power stood up for this right or benefit in the same way that women fought for " right of suffrage" more than a century ago ? Perhaps GABRIELA can take the fight from here as started by the anxious female I encountered at the Mall's RR door!

Or do we have to wait for another century more to see women enjoying faster relief at the Malls?

But I'm just a kibitzer here and not everybody agrees with one!