At times we wondered whether the 'open-plan' approach to bathroom design
was in order to allow users to relax and enjoy the view while occupied.
Certainly some restrooms were decorated in a livelier fashion than seemed
strictly necessary for such functional rooms. The KOA site where we stayed in
San Antonio had restrooms featuring a floor painted to resemble floorboards,
a ceiling painted to look like the sky, and decorative transfers around the sinks
- very fancy, but I think we would have rather paid less for the campsite and
put up with dull restrooms! We certainly could have done without the
decoration in the Big Sky Café. This was a restaurant in San Louis Obispo
and it contained a very disturbing range of artwork in its restrooms best
described as monkey porn. Photographs of naked men and women posing
with monkeys - discreetly shot but even so. Then there was the sign in a
restroom in the Hurricane restaurant in the Florida Keys: ‘Employees must
wash hands. If no employee available customers must wash own hands’.
Cute.
However it was a toilet in San Antonio that provided the most
entertaining decoration as Emma (again) discovered the following reading
matter scrawled on the cubicle wall:
'If you love your man show some class,
don’t write his name where you wipe your ass'.
And so, reluctantly, Emma put her permanent marker pen away.
On other occasions Emma was less willing to curb her artistic nature
and left several bits of graffiti across America - albeit easily removable. She is
such a conscientious rebel. This spate of criminal activity was actually my