So, I think there are enough interesting toilets in the world to write a book about them. Or publish a coffee table book about them. Or a little humor book of reviews or something of the ilk.
Mine will kick off as follows:
In the diner made out of a double wide, fully one quarter of the back end is taken up with a boy loo and a girl loo. In the girl loo there are two toilet bowls in one room with the only door opening directly into waitress traffic and, brushing this across the aisle, the edge of one booth.
Many situations can be imagined, and probably have been enacted--its the only place open 24 hours a day in a college town of countless bars in a state where all bars close at 2 am. Most commonly though, I'm sure its just a relief for mothers with multiple weak-bladdered children. For general purposes though, its a bit odd.
An attempt seems, at one point, to have been made to separate the two bowls with stall walls like you see everywhere else. The dingy white tile has a T of orange tile between bowls and a sliver at the walls. One assumes this is where the walls would have gone if the holes had ever been drilled and the whole idea of privacy had not been aborted.
I guess its because the mirror is sequestered in one half of the room and the sink in t'other. If the wall had been successful, they'd have been separated and you'd have to wait for the other party to finish their biz-ness to use one or the other.
I don't know which alternative is worse planned, but both are awesome as an emblem of "we don't give a shit."
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I follow a blog called Made of Wanderlust. She took a picture of a toliet in Korea that might be right up your alley, if you were to write this book. Fun musical pun interjection: Since you have to go to the bathroom every day, multiple times. You'd conduct lots of research everyday. Thus, everyday you'd write the book. There's an Elvis Costello song that could be your anthem.
Thanks Steve!
Coffee table book? I think you should follow George Castanza's lead, and write a Bathroom Book for Bathrooms. Oh, or was that Kramer? Nope, he did a coffee table book about coffee tables, and George kept trying to return books that he read in the bathroom to the bookstore--where they immediately detected that the book had been read in the bathroom and refused the return. Can people who work in bookstores really detect if books being returned have actually been read in the bathroom?
But I digress.
Hey, kiddo! You should talk to Tom about her toilet flower pot. ... Which was unceremoniously hit by a car. :/ But it was pink and beautiful. I think I have a photo of it floating about some place.
It's your turn to pick a topic for the CD swap! Hopefully we all get our asses in gear and send them out on time!
yep, that's my next blog topic... I've been mulling it over for a week or two now...
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