If you noticed a man quite some distance away, standing with his back to you and who was urinating in public - what would your reaction be?

This topic relates to a wee ScrineBlog entry which Keith may, out of sheer good taste, remove before you have time to read it.

(Please excuse spelling errors and whatnot.  I always forget that you can’t edit the poll after it’s published.  Bugger.)

The middle of a public transportation platform is not the best place to relieve oneself, and I would like to think that most people would at least make the attempt at some sort of privacy.  When it comes to bodily functions, however, I think people are much too uptight and act almost as if the acts didn’t exist.  Why are there so few public restrooms in this world?  You’d think in cities there’d be one every couple of blocks or so.  Surely they should be as numerous as churches, banks, taverns, drinking fountains and coffee shops.

It seems you think similarly to me about this one. What a relief (oh, this topic is open to so many puns). I’m sure I wouldn’t have thought much about the whole ‘incident’ if it hadn’t been for the other woman’s staggering over-reaction.  I honestly wished I had a video camera with me.  It was a sight to behold.

I hadn’t mentioned that in the original post - there were public toilets about 2 minutes walk away.  While the women’s loos are clean and working, I can’t vouchsafe for the men’s, so maybe they were broken.  Anyway, you’re right, there should be so many public toilets around that you’d never need to look too hard.  There should be at least as many public toilets as there are pubs!

Since you provided “Something else that you don’t want to even know about” I simply had to pick that answer because the moment I read it that part in Alice’s Restaurant when Arlo Guthrie starts screaming, “I wanna kill. Eat. Dead. Burnt. Babies.” in the psychologist’s exam in order to get out of military service and the psychologist starts singing along and they jump on the table and sing it together in two part harmony flashed in my mind and I thought what a fine idea, Boot must have just given me permission to walk over, stand, next to the guy and join him and maybe we’d start a movement (or at least double-offend Ms. Tsk).  And then I thought, if Boot was properly equipped, I suspect she might have done just that and it would have been Very Funny.

Oh, now that’s beautiful.  Ms Tsk.  I think we have a new Scrine-character.  Heh.

so hereza thing: i didn’t see this until just now.  another needed amenity, then: an rss feed of its own for scrineblog as i keep missing things and when i try to subscribe to it so i don’t it just re-subscribes me to scrine proper.  well, not proper. oh you know what i mean.  while we’re ordering up, see.  oh and speaking of, wordshadows?  no feed.  it was forever before i realized that was back on. (cry)

e, I see it kind of like an easter egg hunt.  Every now and then when I get bored I poke around and there is often something bright and shiny that I’ve missed.  Then again, simple Luddite I am, I know not these RSS feed thingies.

google googlereader.  it’s free and will make sure you don’t miss things.

What ‘mouse said.  I like having ‘spare’ bits of Scrine to poke about in when bored.  Like finding a spare book in your handbag when you thought you had none on you.