Post by NHLWinnipeg on Dec 14, 2011 14:05:45 GMT -6
Hockey fans call for return of urinal trough
Chinta Puxley, The Canadian Press
26 minutes ago
WINNIPEG - Winnipeg's male hockey fans want a faster way to answer the call of nature.
Hundreds have signed an online petition arguing bathrooms at the home of the Winnipeg Jets can't handle the current flow of traffic. And they have a retro solution — they're calling on the MTS Centre to replace the modern single urinals with old-fashioned metal troughs.
The petitioners say most of the 15,000 hockey fans at games are beer-drinking men who need the bathroom at least once.
"Bring back the trough," reads the petition, signed by more than 200 people as of Wednesday morning. "After finishing 4+ beers, the average Joe has to go do his business. The new washroom service in the MTS Centre cannot handle the capacity."
They complain male fans have to spend too long in between hockey periods to pee and risk missing some of the action. The lineups also slow down traffic in the arena concourse, the petition argues.
"I think it's ridiculous that when u leave at the end of the second period to take a piss and come back in the middle of the third," wrote one signatory. "There is something seriously wrong with that!"
Replacing urinals with a trough would mean 10 guys could relieve themselves at a time instead of just four, they say. The troughs were used in the old Winnipeg Arena and the city's CanadInns Stadium, former home of the CFL Blue Bombers.
Resurrecting the communal urinal has caught on among some die-hard fans, both male and female.
One petitioner fondly remembered the trough as a "drive-through bathroom" with no lineup. Another said the trough "made it a joy to go pee."
"The system now is totally flawed and I almost pee my pants just waiting in line," he wrote.
"Everyone talks about the trough and how they miss it," wrote another. "We can get a lot more guys going to the can at once if we had the trough. I have missed the beginnings of periods and other events (concerts after intermission) just because I had to wait in line to take a leak. It's also incentive to buy less beer!"
At least one petitioner grumbled the current setup means men are being forced to line up "forever" just like women.
"MTS Centre washrooms must have been designed by a very bitter female," added another.
But many women — who are no stranger to long bathroom lineups — were sympathetic and supportive.
"Get it back," said one woman. "I hate waiting for my husband!"
Some were even a little envious.
"In keeping with equal rights, I want one for the girls washroom too," wrote one woman.
ca.sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news?slug=capress-hkn_brite_urinal_trough-15601426
Chinta Puxley, The Canadian Press
26 minutes ago
WINNIPEG - Winnipeg's male hockey fans want a faster way to answer the call of nature.
Hundreds have signed an online petition arguing bathrooms at the home of the Winnipeg Jets can't handle the current flow of traffic. And they have a retro solution — they're calling on the MTS Centre to replace the modern single urinals with old-fashioned metal troughs.
The petitioners say most of the 15,000 hockey fans at games are beer-drinking men who need the bathroom at least once.
"Bring back the trough," reads the petition, signed by more than 200 people as of Wednesday morning. "After finishing 4+ beers, the average Joe has to go do his business. The new washroom service in the MTS Centre cannot handle the capacity."
They complain male fans have to spend too long in between hockey periods to pee and risk missing some of the action. The lineups also slow down traffic in the arena concourse, the petition argues.
"I think it's ridiculous that when u leave at the end of the second period to take a piss and come back in the middle of the third," wrote one signatory. "There is something seriously wrong with that!"
Replacing urinals with a trough would mean 10 guys could relieve themselves at a time instead of just four, they say. The troughs were used in the old Winnipeg Arena and the city's CanadInns Stadium, former home of the CFL Blue Bombers.
Resurrecting the communal urinal has caught on among some die-hard fans, both male and female.
One petitioner fondly remembered the trough as a "drive-through bathroom" with no lineup. Another said the trough "made it a joy to go pee."
"The system now is totally flawed and I almost pee my pants just waiting in line," he wrote.
"Everyone talks about the trough and how they miss it," wrote another. "We can get a lot more guys going to the can at once if we had the trough. I have missed the beginnings of periods and other events (concerts after intermission) just because I had to wait in line to take a leak. It's also incentive to buy less beer!"
At least one petitioner grumbled the current setup means men are being forced to line up "forever" just like women.
"MTS Centre washrooms must have been designed by a very bitter female," added another.
But many women — who are no stranger to long bathroom lineups — were sympathetic and supportive.
"Get it back," said one woman. "I hate waiting for my husband!"
Some were even a little envious.
"In keeping with equal rights, I want one for the girls washroom too," wrote one woman.
ca.sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news?slug=capress-hkn_brite_urinal_trough-15601426
