Heroic tales! of an Aussie abroad ... ;-)
On 3 April 2013 01:55, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Well, sort of....
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> Doug
> On 2013-04-02, at 8:43 AM, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
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> > "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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