Another marvelous thread, Steve Shaw! Frikkin' awesome!

Regarding "food to go", about half the North American population has become so lazy and sedentary that they don't really want to ever go to the trouble of getting back out of their car once they have gotten into it. Hence, the prevalence of "drive-through" facilities everywhere. We now have drive-through restaurants, drive-through banks, drive-through drugstores, drive-through liquor stores, drive-through gun shops, drive-through just about anything at all. Some people almost never leave their car if they can manage it...but they are still required to get out to use a restroom now and then, and this suggests an untapped area that the drive-through industry would do well to take advantage of ASAP.

The drive-through urinal!

This would consist of a kiosk where you pull up, put a dollar coin in the slot, and a panel opens...out pops an extendable sort of vacuum-hose arrangement which you can pull inside the driver's window of your car. You then unzip, put your "junk" (to use the current popular term) into the funnel-like end of the hose, and relieve yourself. A sensor is triggered and a powerful suction makes sure that the inside of your car doesn't suffer any "spills", and PRESTO! Bob's your uncle. All done, zip back up and on your way!

There will also, of course, be a high tech form of sanitation applied by the machine to the hose immediately after use, employing various carcinogenic chemicals and ultra-violet light to ensure that your junk isn't compromised by anything harmful from anyone else's junk that was there before you....

Come to think of it, probably best to charge two or three dollars for this service. Dollars are worth less and less lately.

I think this would be hugely popular with the suburban man, the business man, the couch potato, the hostile cop, the drive-by shooters, and the hardcore drive-through addict. No need to WALK to the restroom anymore!!!

The only problem I can foresee is this. It just wouldn't work for females. And that could lead to objections on the basis of sexism.

It will obviously require a clever marketing campaign to popularize this idea and persuade North American men that it is incredibly cool and trendy and "ballsy" to use the drive-through urinal, while not arousing hostility among women's rights groups at the same time.