The Interesting Ones
H&G - My department in Florida was History & Genealogy but our bathroom became known as Hump & Grind after some services were performed by a library page.
Traxx - My first over-18 club in Ybor. Since the majority of the clientele was gay and it offered one of the best transvestite shows, all the restrooms were unisex. It was a real eye-opener for me.
Mallory Hall - One would think living in an all-girls dorm would not be adventurous, but the bathroom escapades were legendary.
Milford Outhouse - 4 days of hiking with periodic outhouses available and a law against using nature while altering between marshes and glacier-tipped mountains, which required many layers of clothing. I highly advise stripping off the long johns out on the trail rather than trying it in the outhouse.
HATM - My favorite place with my Florida friends. The signs read "sit 2 p" and "stand 2 p."
The Odd Bathrooms
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The blue bathroom - This was in a jazz club in Ybor one night when Mich and I were trying to find some good music. The light was blue along with everything else.
The silver bathroom - This was at Coyote Ugly in Ybor with Mich when we kept returning for $1 shots. The walls and floors looked like the silver patterned material used in the bed of a truck.
Birmingham "get cozy" bathroom - Hanging out with Mich, Alyssa, and Kris after the AL vs. MI game. The sinks were in an alcove/ back area of the bar and instead of opening the door to a urinal plus a stall with a toilet, the gals opened the door to a toilet with the toilet stall further back hence "get cozy" with your girlfriends.
Maine fort bathroom - After a lengthy drive and no rest areas, we arrived at the fort which was closed, the restaurant which was closed, and the museum which was closed. Though the women's room door was locked, the men's was open. This is the most disgusting restroom ever for me which is saying something considering how many outhouses and port-o-potties I have visited while hiking.
Anyone care to share?
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I had to use a port-a-john at the soccer fields in North Carolina after Hurricane Isabel had gone through the week before. Apparently the unit had tipped over during the storm and had been righted without being cleaned. It wasn't as gross as you might imagine, but there were clumps of toilet paper stuck to the ceiling.
The really interesting thing is that, as bad as some of these were, you still used them. On vacation with my family (I was about 13) in the California mountains, we stopped at a service station and I headed off to the restroom. When I came back, I told my older sister (about 17 or 18 at the time) about the oddly shaped toilet just sitting in the middle of the room, without a stall. She glanced over and said, "You used the men's room!" (Usually, women's restrooms were the first one encountered, so I had just entered.)Several time since, I've dashed unknowingly into the men's, but now I know what the odd thing is!
I totally forgot to mention the tuna incident at the library. Yes, there was an open can of tuna in one of the stall's trash receptacles.
This is really about bathrooms and toilets? I don't have a list, but I sure have memories! The outhouse Dad would build for the campers when I was a kid. It was a hole in the ground with a seat over it surrounded by a dark, plastic, green tarp that made everything hotter and stinkier.
In later years he build a stone outhouse that overlooks the countryside. I think that's Edith's favorite thing up at Mongo. :)
And I remember Grandma having an outhouse when I was little.
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