The Grooming Lounge Blog

Our blog post a few weeks back dealt with the crossroads one of the Grooming Guys was at after dropping his treasured Ray Bans in the Dodger Stadium urinal trough.  The laws of good grooming dictated that he part ways with his shades that day — but it seems many readers of that post hold varying opinions on how the situation should have been handled.  Some of the responses were so interesting/funny, we thought we’d list them here for the community.

#1

“You pick them up. Worse case you pull a little paper towel so you don’t have to jam your mitt into the piss pool. But you pick them up. Unless of course you haven’t been following your own advice about moisturizing your hands and they are dry and cracked. Then you might consider leaving them. Otherwise, snatch those puppies out of the trough, throw them in the sink with a couple of teaspoons of that pretty pink soap and scrub away.”

#2

“Most of the guys I know, myself included, wear their sunglasses hooked in the neck of their shirts, or arms hooked around the front or back of their necks. The back of the neck trick would’ve kept your Bans in your hands. In this awkward sitation I doubt I would have picked them up, especially if guys were queued behind me. If there had been only another guy or two in the loo and no sons, I probably would have gone to get a paper towel and picked em up. Probably a good lesson for the boys though: leave stuff that falls in the toilet in the toilet.

Time was, troughs used to be floor to height, so a boy could use it too. In Australia I saw ingenious floor troughs that included a grate to stand on over a shallow gully. They easily wash the gully (to clean up after the missers and drippers) by giving the trough a good flush.”

#3

“Were you wearing the glasses or just had them pushed back up on your head? I’ve lived in Asia for over 15 years and over here (China, HK, Thailand) only girls push their glasses up onto their hair when not in use. I’ve been here so long that I can’t push my glasses up knowing only girls do it. Instead I hang one arm of my glasses down the inside of my shirt. If you had them this way then they wouldn’t have dropped in the soup!”

#4

“A little urine has never killed anyone… Not putting the glasses back on, definitely, but losing a pair of glasses that could have been soaped for a few seconds seems silly.”

#5

“You are a giant pussy. Those are $150 glasses.  You pick them up, spit on them and avoid squinting your eyes.”