Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Dear John

Public bathrooms are very difficult to find.  In NYC,  there is a program to install self-cleaning public bathrooms.  So far, only three have been installed because it is very difficult to find locations where plumbing is esaily accessible to install these public toilets.  Even then, the program plans to install 20 in 20 years.  That is not going to help anyone. So what do people do when they need to "go" and they are not at home.  They go to the nearest establishment where there is a toilet and it is usually a privately owned establishement that provides tolilets for their customers.  Places such as hotels or restaurants. 

So the private establishments have to pick up where the public sector cannot even provide for the basic needs for their citizens to relieve themselves.  The owners of private establishments must then maintain the very public use of these toilets and with very little thanks from the government.  Instead, the government then goes into these places and rate them on their cleanliness.  A good deed never goes unpunished. 

Private establishments are stuck between a rock and a hard place.  They bear the scorn of the general public when they do not allow non-paying customers to use their toilets, but if they do, they have to spend the time and money to maintain the facilities that the government cannot provide for its own public.  One of  the few injustices that business owners must bear...but do they really have to?

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