redsturgeon wrote:Belgo Nord in Chalk Fram Road, London has had unisex facilities for at least 20 years with no problems,
The French have that system where the urinals are outside the cubicles which are unisex and it seems to work OK.
As do the Japanese, or at least they did when I worked in Tokyo in the mid 90s. I can tell you it's hard to keep your concentration when 'that beautiful girl' you've been privately drooling over for months walks in and passes behind you!
I recall another quirk there. At 5pm each day a musical theme was played over the PA that covers the entire building. Heaven's knows why, maybe it was the 'company tune', but in our building owned by Mitsui Corp it was a tune that a Brit would know from the 1980s [?] series of TV ads for Hovis bread. All 'Aye, when I were just a lad' and visuals of war-era children riding bicycles along cobbled lanes etc.
And I recall one time I was very home-sick, and standing at a urinal, and that theme came on. I was in there alone at the time, and was suddenly hit with an instant and large wave of nostalgia. I was standing there and fighting back alternating tears and laughter when a female colleague walked in. God only knows what she must have thought!
