"America, can do, does."
Possibly not the most thoughtful of boasts for a place without public
toilets?
On 2 April 2013 14:44, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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