When You Gotta Go Should You Have To Read?

When the urge is there reading is the last thing on most folks minds. Most are on auto pilot. You find the sign and enter, assuming all the while you are in the right place. At McGuire's in Destin and Pensacola, however, reading is required. Not reading may get you to the wrong place, and the butt of an Irish joke as well.

bathrooms. The Department's bottom line seems to be that the sign can't have any fine print about gender or be confusing. It seems, however, that the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation thinks doing your "business" is serious business and in need of professional regulation. So this Department is enforcing its regulations to insure appropriate signage on Women's and Men'sWomen's can be "Ladies," of course. Men's can't be "Ladies" and certainly not "Girls."

To the Department, which is gender neutral, it's all too confusing. So it has told McGuire's to put up signage "properly designating bathrooms" or risk being shut down.

So here's our suggestion for McGuire's: The sign for the Men's might read: "Men (except when the line for the Women's room is out the door)." The sign for the Women's might read: "Women (hurry up so you don't have to go next door)." That should be clear, even to the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation.