quoted in the New York Post [3] as saying: "I'm a fairly wide guy. I tend to spread my legs when I lower my pants so they won't slide," and asking rhetorically, "Did I slide them too close to yours?"
I'll admit to being fairly wide myself. And I can't count the number of times that I've spread out my feet so far that they've shot out under my stall and made contact with the guy next to me. When this happens, I say, "Excuse me, sir. I'm a wide guy trying to keep my pants from sliding off and touching the filthy floor."
As to his hand coming under the stall, palm up:
"I remember reaching down once. There was a piece of toilet paper back behind me, and picking it up."
Yeah. I know when I see toilet paper laying on the floor next to a public toilet, I just can't resist reaching down and picking it up. Now mind you, I don't want my pants touching the floor -- but my hand, that's a different thing. This may seem contradictory, but there is plenty about my life that is contradictory.
So I think we should give this senator a break and take him at his word. He says he doesn't do things like have sex in public restrooms, and I believe him. He's just a wide guy who likes to pick stuff off restroom floors when he isn't passing legislation.
But I'd recommend him making an even firmer denial, something like this: "I did not want sexual relations with that man, Sgt. Karsnia."
