Urinal etiquette explained
Local Contamination and the Unwarranted Expansion of Its Jurisdiction
QUESTION 16/20
A wet floor is a local hygiene constraint. Treating it as either irrelevant or contagious to an entire row would introduce two different errors into the same short decision.
The situation
The Stadium · Entrance: Lower right.
| Position | State |
|---|---|
| 1 | Available |
| 2 | Available |
| 3 | Wet floor · unavailable |
| 4 | Available |
| 5 | Ordinary visitor |
| 6 | Available |
Recommended position: 1
The closed fixture
The puddle belongs to position three, which is unavailable in the main examination. It does not automatically close two or four. Those positions remain legitimate candidates, to be compared against the ordinary visitor at five and the remaining geometry.
The independent spatial decision
Position one provides the greatest available separation from that visitor. Two is closer; four and six adjoin him. The dry terminal at one therefore wins without requiring a theory that urine migrates between numbered positions merely because they share a room.
Conclusion
Position one is recommended. The Committee advises maintaining a distinction between observing a puddle and granting it administrative authority over neighbouring fixtures.
In plain language
Three is wet. That does not make two and four wet. Take one because it is dry and farthest from the bloke at five.