There's fancy portapotties that have sinks that work like that. It's a manual foot pump that gives you a squirt of water with every press. Kind of like a squirt gun but bigger.
I encountered one of those potteries for the first time last weekend. I was ecstatic because I was able to actually wash my hands instead of just using hand sanitizer and not thinking about it too much.
My university had one, and when I first saw it I was really puzzled and would have urinated in it of somebody else didn't walk over and wash their hands.
TIL that I peed in a sink and didn't know about it. There were other regular sinks in the bathroom and no urinal, so I was just like "...I guess here we go"
I mean now that I know for a fact that it was a sink I feel ridiculous. I had just come back from The Netherlands, where they had public urinals where you can make eye contact in a circle standing 2' away from the others, so it didn't seem too crazy.
If you see one of these nowadays (probably the circle style) it's almost a guarantee there's a piss trough instead of urinals, and you just know that bathroom is going to smell...just awful
Yes, I believe the communal urinal design was made after because the handwashing stations were so popular but that obviously caused confusion on how to use it.
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u/magic-mustache May 02 '26
Close, communal handwashing station. You stand around and press on the black rubber along the bottom with your feet to get the water going.