Who here remembers the brief attempt at "Pay Toilets?"

Yeah. Just lock the fucking door open.

No one should have to pay to take a shit.

Could we ever mount such a massive non-conpliance for something that mattered,

Good lord. :eyes:

Here I sit,brokenhearted
Paid a dime,but only farted
Next time I will take a chance
Save a dime,but shit my pants.

Hence the memorials to my fossilized shit all over Great Falls, Montana.

The local chamber of commerce is still using my memorialized, fossilized shit to draw new Taco Treat and Circle K franchises to town, without telling unwitting franchise buyers that my stuff had alsways been left much closer to the bus station.

didn't have a dime. Luckily, I was an agile kid at the time and didn't mind germs.

At Intergalactic Airport, which is officially George H W Bush Intercontinental.

The women's advocate in the mayor's office, Nikki Van Hightower, got them removed from the airports because of the fact that foreigners went through there by the thousands even in the 1970s.

If Mayor Fred Hofheinz had not appointed a women's advocate there would have been Johnny Cashes all over the place.

Truly barbaric and cruel to women. Especially women from a foreign country.

where Arnold installed pay locks on the stalls. If I remember right, some guys broke into the restaurant one night, and Arnold didn't have a dime for the phone in the bathroom (who puts a pay phone in a bathroom?) to call the cops, so he broke the lock.

"Looka all this money! I must be only one who crawl unda!"

:rofl:

I remember when my father was in ICU about fifteen years ago. I decided I needed a breath of fresh air so I decided to go outside and walk around the hospital for a half hour or so.

I started noticing parking meters either expired or close to expiring. I had some spare change and figured I need all the karma I can get. So I started dropping coins into meters that needed them.

Some parking butler-nazi sees me and comes racing up on his motorized tricycle at about 13 mph, jumps off and sticks his face in my grill and says that he's been watching me. I told him that I was flattered but that I really wasn't his type. Well, that pissed him off and he said that he could have me arrested.

I was getting pretty pissed off myself at that point and pointed out that it was my money and that I could spend any fucking way way I see fit. The f-word didn't help matters any and he then threatened to call the cops. I asked him if he knew any.

The conversation sort of deteriorated after that point.

I really didn't want to be arrested because I needed to stay close to the hospital. So I wound up handing him my business card and telling him to knock himself out and that I could be found in the god damned fucking intensive care waiting room on the fifth floor. He just glared at me as I walked away.

Nothing ever came of it but I do have a burning desire to take about $100 worth of quarters and spend an afternoon walking around a hospital plugging meters.

Hell, for all I know random acts of kindness actually are forbidden in my town.

If I ran across that, I think I'd go up nice and close and stare at the front door. :evilgrin:

:(

you pay for public toilets.


But I agree with the OP, wish people would mount resistance about some other issues. Such as a national health plan.

I remember the coin slots in the doors at the movie theater when I was a kid, although most of the coinboxes weren't working anymore.

10 cents to get in, if I remember correctly. What a load of shit.

Of course when the Euro came in, everyone saw fit to jack the price up to 1 Euro for a piss, no matter what it cost in the old currency.

I've never found out if it costs more to take a shit.

I had to try and find out how long they have been around -- I found that in America, they have been around since 1910 - the first was at the Terre Haute, IN station - The Pennsylvania Railroad. It is also said that pay toilets date back to 74 AD in ancient Rome. The first ban on pay toilets was in Chicago, 1973. At that time there were at least 50 thousand pay toilets in the USA.

They don't understand the concept of free public bathrooms.

Hell, they even make you pay to use the toilet in a restaurant, after you paid 30 Euro for a meal!