When Nature CallsOf all the things that, ahem, stink about air travel, the bathrooms are surely one of the worst. Little more than glorified closets, they're tiny, smelly, likely to encourage claustrophobia, and usually--at least by the end of the flight--sporting suspicious-looking sprinklings on both floor and seat. It's enough to make a passenger cross her legs and hope for the best.
But British airline Silverjet--which offers low-fare all-business-class flights between London and New York--is attempting to take the potty problem into its own hands, by introducing the first ever women-only loos on board its fleet. (The rather racy video it used to spread the message was an instant smash hit on the Internet and is certainly worth checking out.)
This isn't to say, of course, that it's men who are responsible for the rather abysmal state of airplane bathrooms--though I'm sure unexpected turbulence doesn't exactly help when it comes to taking aim--but rather that women now have a choice about where to, um, powder their noses when the need arises.
Whether you find it sexist or sensible, I have to say that personally, given the choice, I'd take the ladies-only bathroom over the unisex one every time. Perhaps it's a case of better the devil you know and all that, or perhaps it's just that I rather suspect that the hand soap and moisturizer may be nicer in the little girls' room.
Or maybe it's just the lure of knowing I'll have a near-100% chance that the person before me hasn't left the seat up.
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As long as Silverjet also has a men's room showing basketball on a flatscreen tv I won't cry sexism.
What I want to know is, will there be a lounger in there and a gilded mirror?
I have never understood why women's bathrooms are so much better than men's, but I'm not complaining!
The men's bathroom is a place of great fear for me. The few times I have seen one, it was quite scarring.
Perhaps even worse than the airplane restroom is when your fellow travellers make it plain that they really should be in one, IF you know what I mean, AND I think you do.
Anyhoo, I have to admit the idea of a ladies-only restroom onboard sounds pretty attractive to me!