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Skipping to the Loo?
Look Before You Leak
Most people prefer to take care of their personal business in their own bathrooms at home. Few like to use public restrooms, but nearly all of us often find it a necessity. Most public places provide public bathrooms: public parks, stadiums, schools, colleges and universities, workplaces, doctor’s offices, hotels, stores, and restaurants. Wherever we go, we sometimes need to go.
Public bathrooms range from skanky…
…to elegantly posh and deluxe.
Probably we all have bathroom stories we could share.
Here are a few of mine:
In the 1970s, I was once on a trip from England to Germany. On one leg of the trip, we rode across the English Channel from Folkestone, England to Calais, France on a Hovercraft. The hovercraft was a French craft. I learned something new about Europe and the French and bathrooms on this trip.
After two cups of tea, I retired to the nearest restroom and walked inside. I saw two women…