I pissed at a construction site on 10th avenue and 18th Street today, which is always a pain in the ass, and I had to do it a couple of months ago too. New York, like most American cities does not have any decent public facilties as do Paris and others. I managed to get finished before two large girls on old-fashioned skates got past 5 feet of me. Richard Gere got arrested about 15 years ago for public urination. In the country, I just do it without thinking, here I only do it when I have to, but it is still definitely easier for women to be allowed to piss in a restaurant where they're not doing any business than it is for a man. They usually mean it when they say that 'restrooms are for customers only', but I have had girlfriends who never had difficulty in convincing owners, bartenders that they must piss in the Ladies' Room.