A visit to the ladies room

[bmccasland]

I've done field work in wilderness areas, including Grand Canyon National Park, where we had to pack *all* solid wastes out. So we had a bucket with a liner and a lid, but then got in an arguement with our helicopter pilot - a substitute because our regular pilot was out on medical - that *the bucket* should most definitely NOT be in the cabin of the helicopter, it should be in the cargohold. This poor flyboy was used to flying big whigs around, not scrappy biologists and their stuff.

We were *civilized*, we did have a toilet seat that balanced on top of the bucket, and in another bucket was the toilet paper, a package of lime, and some tabloids for reading. Each bucket had a lid to protect or contain the contents. This humble toilet was on the edge of camp behind some shubbery. We went to "commune with nature."

[lph]

yep. I think my most memorable toilet visits were during summer field work on Spitsbergen.

We dug a little hole 200 m away from our tent camp (well, scrabbled aside as much as we could before we hit permafrost) and erected a small dry-stone wall around. Our toilet seat was very civilized, thin plywood with a layer of cork nailed on

So you'd grab the toilet paper, the matchbox to burn all dry bits up with afterwards, a rifle, and go sit gazing down towards the ice-berg laden fjord for a couple of minutes, which also was the direction any curious polar bears would come strolling from.

Frequently checking across your shoulder in case they didn't...

And no, we never saw any.

[DebW]

I've got a sealed package of 2 Travelmates I'll give to anyone who wants them. When I bought it several years ago, the company got behind on orders, and to make amends, they DOUBLED everyone's order. So I ended up with 4 instead of the minimum order of 2. And didn't like it well enough to use it anyway. PM me is you want them.

[Aint Doody]

This is fascinating. I can hardly wait to get into the shower to try it out!

[Kitsune06]

shower is *the best* way to practice (who doesn't have to pee in the morning??) first get so you can do it, then get so you can reliably hit the drain. I'm out of practice, but when I was really doing that often (between the Fair and weekend hiking trips...) I could argue with dh that I had aim as good or better.

[CyclChyk]

Ok - here is a simple way to pee standing up for women

http://www.urinelle.biz/html/en/Howt...OVMTC=standard

Still won't let me write my name in the snow tho...........

[Zen]

That last one reminds me of the song "Detachable Penis".

When I was in the Army and working in the motor pool we had no immediate facilities and I had to walk to another motor pool that did. My sergeant, having done time in "Nam informed me of the method the Vietnamese women used with the thumb and forefinger. From then on instead of telling him I was going to use the toilet I just made that "L" sign.

[Python]

This is fascinating. I can hardly wait to get into the shower to try it out!

Me too.

Anyone ever seen the British comedy film "The Full Monty"? In the opening scenes one of the women shows she can pee standing up (to the delight and amazement of her friends).

It's a film that if you haven't seen it, it is well worth getting hold of