The Starbucks thing

We don't need gubmint-provided restrooms down here. We have Buc-ee's.

 

The mall in Paris we ducked into to use the toilet required a payment, and had an attendant.

Still wasn't very nice, and wasn't big enough, or clean enough, to do a diaper change.

 

I think those are great.

And I'm sure local business owners do too, because no one is pissing on the wall of their shop or restaurant, as is so often the case here.

You want a real education in our urban urinal desert, make a lap or two around any downtown NFL stadium an hour or so before game time.

 

When my wife was a grad student she spent a few months studying in Italy, with multiple extended journeys elsewhere in Europe. I met her in Greece once and then later, with her sisters and their boyfriends along, in Germany. On the Greece trip, she found herself suffering from a severe case of Agamemnon's Revenge. Use of the public toilet was free, but ... amenities ... were extra. She jokes that when I sprung for two helpings of toilet paper -- 10 drachmas! -- she knew I was a keeper.

 

Wouldn’t they be brown spaces by definition?

 

Well, I was going to write, "or get the sideeye," but since I'm on my phone I didn't want to type so much. But since you called out my privilege ...

 

Just joshing, really.
Personally, I don't complain about limited access to bathrooms in retail and food service locations.
If I have to buy something, I do, and some times I'll buy something even if I don't 'have' to, as in an employee is not preventing me from using the facility without a purchase.
Business owners have electric and water bills, rent, employees to pay - I get it and do not begrudge someone expecting me to buy something if I want to use the bathroom. The business is paying for the bathroom.

And I'd rather pay $1-2 for some coffee than walk into the horror show that is any of the very, very few public rest stops located along my usual travel routes.

I'm not prissy and I don't have bathroom phobias at all, but I went into a highway public rest stop just a couple weeks ago that left me a little scarred, mentally.

 

You go into a Buc-eee's for a constitutional, I don't know what color you'd have to be to get the side-eye. Because by God there is ALWAYS a gob of people in there.

 

Working on alliterations that include the verb chier for this service's French footprint.

 

Public toilet saves a life.

SF Tenderloin toilet monitor honored for life-saving actions

 

Starbucks’ diversity training won’t help unless it makes white people uncomfortable

 

So, is this a tacit admission that having baristas lecture strangers on race relations in America was a failure?