There are plenty of things we learn as kids that we give up on when we reach adulthood: finger painting, holding hands when we cross the street, cleaning our plate. But old habits die hard when it comes to bathroom etiquette.
That’s why, when a big pink tube landed on my desk a month ago, I laughed off the GoGirl. The awkward, generic acronym for a female urination device, ‘FUD,’ turned me off almost as quickly as the pink, rubbery, silicone funnel itself. We giggled, we passed it around the office, we snuck it into each other’s desk drawers. It became sort of the office joke – until yesterday. I finally worked up the nerve to try the GoGirl last night. In a trailhead parking lot packed with cars and seemingly miles away from any shrubbery coverage I followed the directions, and without an unfortunate mishap, it worked.
I’ve never been squeamish in public bathrooms, so for me, carrying around a product like a GoGirl isn’t quite worth the effort of avoiding a few germs or what their website calls ‘squatting in the usual contortions.’ It might be a better fit for women with physical limitations – broken legs and bum knees or hand-sanitizer-toting types (take a look at their testimonials). But, for me, like I said, old habits die hard. www.go-girl.com
-Kristy Holland
