Wednesday, November 16, 2005

(the oddest) toliet (in knoxville)

you know the infamous bathroom scene in trainspotting? where ewan mcgregor finds the door marked toliet and the editors inserted text saying "the worst" toliet "in scotland."

last week in knoxville i came across a bizarre bathroom in the knoxville airport, at the private jet hanger.

i've mocked up a diagram. so picture this:


  • walk in the men's room
  • two sinks immediately on the right
  • two urinals past the sinks, also on the right
  • on the left, across from the sinks, are three toliets, WITHOUT STALLS
i mean, what they hell where they thinking? i've seen some stalls that lack doors, but no stalls at all? in a public bathroom? in an airport?

how bad would you have to go in order to crap out in the open like this?

thankfully, i was just there to wash my hands (having spilled half a gallon of gas refilling the rental car) and no one was on the shitter.

i'm not sure which of four scenarios would be the worst:
  1. walking into the bathroom to take a leak or wash one's hands and finding someone shitting out in the open
  2. taking a shit out in the open while people come and go, taking a leak and/or washing their hands (hopefully they follow the former with the latter)
  3. taking a shit, and having someone else come into take a shit. now you're really too close for comfort
  4. walking into to shit and discovering that not only is someone on one of the three toliets, but that he has claimed the middle one. so no matter what, you are sitting next to him.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I kid you not, this was the exact same setup as in the Sigma Nu frat house at Purdue University in 1988. I'm not sure what kind of brotherhood they were hoping to foster.

(In their defense, they have since moved to a new house.)

10:42 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I kid you not, this was the exact same setup as in the Sigma Nu frat house at Purdue University in 1988. I'm not sure what kind of brotherhood they were hoping to foster.

(In their defense, they have since moved to a new house.)

10:42 PM  

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