OK, David, does not provide facilities but does provide citizens to explain. At least when you do get to unleash, you don't pay as you do here, even in
bloody shopping centres.
On Wed, Apr 3rd, 2013 at 1:43 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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