Well, sort of....
Doug
On 2013-04-02, at 8:43 AM, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> "America, can do, does."
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> Possibly not the most thoughtful of boasts for a place without public
> toilets?
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> On 2 April 2013 14:44, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> In Brooklyn waiting in a queue at Starbucks for the unisex toilet
>> because there do not appear to be any public toilets in New York
>> the African American girl behind me looks like she might know
>> how I get to the start of the Brooklyn Bridge so I can walk
>> back to the Manhattan side? She looks it up on her phone for me
>> while the queue in front is reduced by one and I am now next.
>> Controlling my jiggle as well as I decently can, she directs my gaze
>> to her screen and asks if I want to write it down. Left on Lafayette
>> then take the next left on ... Excuse me, I'll see you in a sec, I say
>> as I ease past the exiting previous toiletgoer.
>> Now, Lafayette and ... what was it again, I ask, on egress.
>> Check with a guy in a purple t-shirt outside, she says, amiably.
>> He's my brother. I just phoned him. He'll direct you. Thanks.
>> And there he was outside. And direct he did. Most accurately.
>> I walked the Brooklyn Bridge with blissfully enencumbered bladder.
>> America, can do, does.
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