Why is the men's room in a chain bookstore bathroom always such a pit? They're universally filthy and heavily abused, at least the ones I've been to. The bookstore can be in great shape and relatively new, but the bathroom always looks like it's ground zero in a gang war. They smell like the ones in a bus station, they're torn apart like somebody locked a gorilla in there, and they're covered with graffiti. Why is that? Are chain bookstores typically centers for local gang activity? Are avid readers the kind of folks who like to tear up public restrooms and smear feces on the stall dividers? It's a mystery to me. I get the geeky pictures like the one below, that kind of makes sense, but the cigarette burns on the toilet paper dispensers? The urine scent on the walls? The gang-looking graffiti? I go to the bookstore quite a bit and I never see a particularly rowdy crowd there, so I'm wondering who does this?
Figure 1: I took this photo in the bathroom at
Borders Books and Music on Oracle Road in Tucson, AZ. The photo depicts Jack from Jack In The Box restaurant suggesting that we try his
ciabatta sandwich. If you left this picture in the stall there, please
write to me and tell me why.
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