re: #199 calochortus

Actually, I was once in a ladies’ room that did have urinals. It required a quick check back to the label on the door. Yup. Ladies’ room.
IIRC it was in the engineering building at U. of Louisiana in the late ’70s and it had apparently never occurred to the designers that there would ever be a need for a women’s restroom in the engineering building, so one of the men’s restrooms had a quick but incomplete sex change. Presumably the transition was completed eventually.

Ha, reminds me of my first day at a major hospital in Pittsburgh. I went to the correct floor and decided I would hit the bathroom before reporting and being shown around. I knew I looked at the plate by the door before going in, but then the door shut and there was a female supply coin operated machine behind the door and no urinals. I did a quick 2 second panic, turned around and went back out to check the sign. Sure enough it said “Men” beside the door. So I took care of business and went on my way. I brought it up to one of the guys when I got settles in and he told me it used to be female but had changed a year before to men’s. He laughed that I freaked out for a second when I first entered.