Is there no lock on the door?

Huh. You know what? I have no idea. I've actually mostly gotten her to stop doing it, so it's not a huge deal.

ION: Elmo Doesn't Speak Up on His Cellphone, Mom's Suit Alleges

Has Tickle Me Elmo been replaced by Bait-and-Switch Elmo?

Where most toys for preschoolers are designed to make a racket, Elmo's World Talking Cell Phone doesn't make enough noise, a Pasadena mom contends in a lawsuit.

She's accusing Mattel Inc. and subsidiary Fisher-Price, which sells toys based on Sesame Street characters, of rigging the phone so it is audible only when shoppers try it in the store.

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Elmo is easily heard when the phone is in the box, according to the complaint filed on behalf of Elisabeth Marchetti, who bought the toy for her 18-month-old daughter, Ava, in February.

But when the toy is out of the box, the suit contends, Elmo speaks barely above a whisper, making children and parents as unhappy as Oscar the Grouch. Opening the box removes a plastic strip from the phone, resetting the volume.

Urinals and the ability to pee standing up. That is all.

Sorry, is that a pro or a con? I'm so okay with not having that common genitalia space, you don't even understand. How can I pretend I'm alone with a stranger's labia right there????

Also, I can pee standing up.

Huh.

I have no problem with talking in the bathroom, to people I came in with. To me, it helps increase the privacy, so I can pretend that the other people can't hear any other noises I might be making as well

Although many women will cop to envying the ability to pee standing up thing, it's surely not because of the urinals. The urinals are a drawback. No privacy, man. It is the potential ability to be circumspect, like say in the woods, or whatever, and not have to lower one's clothing quite so far, thereby exposing ourselves, that we envy.

I always love freaking out new male co-workers by telling them about the couch in the ladies room. They don't have one theirs. Between that, and the fancy lounges in department store ladies rooms, I think that women have it pretty good, bathroom-wise.

Yeah, there used to be a law in RI that at least one ladies room in every non-residential building had to have a cot or such like. Which often led to a lot of yelling first thing in the morning at the URI chemistry dept. when someone would stumble across a male graduate student sleeping in the staff ladies room.

Elmo Doesn't Speak Up on His Cellphone, Mom's Suit Alleges

That sounds like a case for Tommy Hotcrotch!

To me, it helps increase the privacy, so I can pretend that the other people can't hear any other noises I might be making as well

No! It means their ear-attention is pointing right at you! The gaps inbetween your words? They can't escape hearing you tinkle. The stalls have ears.

there used to be a law in RI that at least one ladies room in every non-residential building had to have a cot or such like

Was there a rationale for that? I mean, a good one?

Big and/or fluffy skirts aren't impossible in regular bathroom stalls, but I prefer the handicapped stall.

I don't know how you do this everyday, Jilli. The one time I wore Elizabethan with the 20-yards of skirt (in two skirts) and the hoops and the boned bodice that prevents normal bending in the torso, I was trapped with only normal sized stalls at the event site. I sat there nearly in tears wondering if I was going to have to take the whole damned mess off to cope properly.

There are a million untold stories in history. How people coped with normal bodily functions in crazy clothes is one of them.

How people coped with normal bodily functions in crazy clothes is one of them.

Peed right there in the street, right?