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San Francisco Public Restrooms
Posted Aug 19, 2001
I recently visited San Francisco, mainly because it is the nearest place of interest to where I live. I had just finished drinking a couple gallons of water, and realized that I needed to pee really really bad (hey, it was hot that day). Out of the corner of my eye I saw the promised land, a green cylinder approximately ten feet tall...It was the legendary French Pay Toilet System - Origionally produced to populate the streets of New York, they were accidentally shipped to the wrong city, but we weren't going to tell the French that. Anyway, I couldn't use this one because it was missing a door. So I ran as fast as I could into the St. Francis Hotel, nice bathrooms by the way (seven out of ten-very clean), but I was in no mood to enjoy the bathroms at the St. Francis, these pay toilets had slapped me in the face (metaphorically speaking), and I do not take offence lightly. I was detrmined to find at least one workng pay toilet. I went to the one by pier 39, the door wouldn't lock and the seat had been removed. The one by the financial district, no soap, no mirror, and there was somebody sleeping in it. Needless to say, every toilet I went to had something wrong with it, so I have decided to give these toilets my worst rating, a one, stay away from these at all costs, you would be better off just going on the streets, and you wouldn't have to do it next to two kids shooting up.
Afterthought: maybe the French don't like us as much as we thought they did.
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Posted Jun 20, 2001
I don't have many skills, I'm not all that predisposed to sudden bursts of sports or violence. But I've found that I have a drive for perfection in three areas.
First and most importantly is the best drink in the entire world, which for some strange reason, water is in first place. after much deliberation, I have decided that I badly need a drink.
A decent place totake a nap, which I consider one of the most important things to have while visiting a strange new place, or even when you're tired from fleeing a radical band of rebel terrorists across Zaire (that isn't it's name anymore, but you know what I'm talking about).
And of course, what I've made my life's passion and most likely my claim to fame, the international toilet rating system. While this might seem a horrible and disgusting waste of time, you must remember that if you ever make a mistake in your choice of eateries, you may be spending your entire vacation sitting on one. I just plain like to know that my toilet was approved by a toilet raing professional.
I hope that whether you are going to New York or Moscow you will rely on my personal rating system, or even contribute some constructive critisizm.
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