women and loo's

A friend and I were pretending to power walk but were actually strolling and the topic of the power/stroll walk was .... I don't know how this happens and it does, so often .... the toilet.

Women's toilets and worse still, toilets at busy international airports have no place to put your hand bag. One would think that the centre of the door would be an ideal place for a hook or the left or the right side of the cubicle and what is with that space on the left and the right so you can see whose feet are peeing on either side of you? No, you have to strangle yourself with the strap of your hand bag while you perfect the not-quite-sitting-on-the-seat position which we, in a previous power/stroll walk, have called hovering. God forbid if you are an Indian woman and have to lift 6 yards/metres of saree or are wearing a catsuit .... you know, those things that abba used to wear or that your friend's mom bought from colpro or deacons in 3 different colours of beige, red and blue that you got as hand-me-downs and had to wear for most of the 70's .... what with you being the grunt of the pack ... and still being the same height as most 12 year olds in Europe or North America. Then you have to do a kung fu panda elbow 'chappa' to flush the loo as you naturally can't use your hand ... who knows how many other germy hands have been there before you and you do remind the 3 yr old. 'don't touch anything, i mean anything in this loo'. God help you if you were wearing a ball gown in Jeddah as you wait for a connection on Saudia ....one can't tell if the wet on the bottom of the gown is .... new picture, please .... hurry! Assam domestic airport ...... it gets worse, no?

I hear Zurich loos are fine ... the loo is, well, you sit and pee and then..... seriously, wait for this, a fine spray of disinfecting water sprays the seat and then dries it for the next bottom ..... and, here comes the piece de resistance, the flush is activated by your foot! BUT .... and there always is a but, even in Zurich, they do not have somewhere to hang your bag.