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Membership-Only Streetside Bathrooms Coming to NYC
- pavel_lishin 13y agoRemind me of Snow Crash. "Hiro has an account with The Rest Stop. To live at the U-Stor-It, you sort of have to have an account. So he gets to bypass the front office where the attendant waits by the cash register. He shoves his membership card into a slot, and a computer screen lights up with three choices: M F UNISEX He has to override a well-worn reflex to stop himself from automatically punching SPECIAL LIMITED FACILITIES, which is what he and all the other U-Stor-It residents always use. Almost impossible to go in there and not come in contact with someone else's bodily fluids. Not a pretty sight. Not at all gracious. Instead - what the fuck, Juanita's going to hire him, right? - he slams the button for LAVATORY GRANDE ROYALE." On another note, it's nice that they mention that the bathrooms won't be overflowing with homeless, but I feel like there should be some solution that would let them have access to basic sanitary utilities without turning them into make-shift campouts and drug dens.