The David Allen

The urinal on the far right: the David Allen. My friend once worked with a man named David Allen. He is apparently a contemptable, wretched man. My friend's goal: to familiarize the name with the short urinal. To be at a bar in San Francisco (we're in Boston), and overhear a joke about someone having to use the David Allen. Having it wind up on Google, and possibly even the dictionary would be the ultimate goal.

quoted from: http://almoorica.blogspot.com/ (not my friend's blog, but apparently a person who also worked with said wretched man)

It is with the importance of nomenclature in mind, then, that I turn to the “low” or “David Allen” urinal, which occupies the very end of the bench in the already unfairly-disparaged World of Urinals. Named for a man of similarly diminutive stature and undesirable reputation, the David Allen is very much the low man on the depth chart of all urinal blocks. Though it’s often the cleanest of all the urinals, the “David Allen,” which is intended primarily though not exclusively for children, is generally only used when all of its full-statured brethren on the line are occupied. When it is finally called upon, it performs just as well as any other urinal, yet the David Allen user feels a sense either of insecurity--as if their use of the David Allen somehow ostracizes them and mocks their own diminutive stature-- or of simple resignation, like they’re receiving a second-rate peeing experience.