I Hate Urinals
I've never liked urinals. As a child I never liked the idea of exposing myself in public to strangers and that is something that has always stuck with me. I think my Dad tried to introduce me to urinals and provided some basic 'training' but I elected to use cubicles instead.
Urinals are fraught with potential problems, solved my unwritten social norms that I never picked up. Which one do you go to if other people are present? Do you pull you knob through your flies? What if you underwear has no fly? What if your trousers have no fly? How far do you pull them down? How many shakes are acceptable after piss-completion?
Cubicles are far more civilised. I go in and I can then approach the situation however I like. Trousers can come down as much as I want. I can perform as many shakes as I like on completion - I hate piss drips on underwear so I'm quite thorough with this stage in the process which would undoubtedly look a bit strange to any onlookers.
I have used urinals a couple of times when under bladder duress, and possibly under the influence of alcohol too when my inhibitions are lowered and it has been fine of course, but then in this situations I've had to accept a couple of drips onto the underwear. I recall using one once when the room was empty (aside from occupied cubicles) and another time when the room was rammed full of people and I didn't have time to wait for a free cubicle as there was a real danger of wetting myself in public.
This leads me onto the downside of being a cubicle user. Often there are a lot less cubicles in public toilets then there are urinals, which means the cubicles are often unavailable and mean you need to wait, leading to me awkwardly standing about in the middle of the toilets. It's even worse if there is a queue - a line of people with turtle heads poking out. Usually I just need a piss but if you're waiting for a cubicle it is assumed you are needing to drop a haybag. It's made worse when the toilets are cramped so you have to keep shuffling out of the way of other people coming and going using the urinals.
This would all be so much simpler if I could overcome my mental block against using urinals, but alas, I think this is the way I will always be.