Fresh on the heels of one budget airline announcing that it will ask passengers to pay extra to bring carry-on bags on board, another is considering charging them for using the lavatory.

Ryanair, which is based in Dublin, Ireland, and bills itself as “Europe’s first and largest low fares airline,” is mulling a plan that would require travelers to pay either 1 euro or 1 British pound for using the bathroom on flights lasting one hour or less…

The carrier said it is working with Boeing to develop a coin-operated door release so that when nature calls, passengers would need to deposit the change before being able to use the facilities…

As part of the plan, the airline is also considering removing two of the three lavatories on some of its planes so it could squeeze in up to six extra seats. The move would help reduce fares by at least 5 percent, Ryanair said…

How would it fly with passengers? One hint of how Americans might feel about it may come from an informal poll posted on TripAdvisor.com last summer in which one-fifth of the respondents said they would fly on an airline that charged a fee to access the bathroom; 78 percent said they would not.

Regular readers know I simply will not fly anymore. If I can’t get where I wish to – driving my old pickup truck – I ain’t going.

But if I did, we have a tradition on my side of the family of dealing with absurd rules de pissoir. Usually involving standing in the aisle [or hall or corridor] and pissing wherever we wish. We’ve been at it for a couple of generation AFAIK.