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\r\n\r\nLike everyone else, I've spent my fair share of time having to make use of public and private facilities away from home. Here are some of the more interesting things - none of them disgusting! - that I've encountered.\r\n\r\n\r\n

\r\nDeep Ellum bathroom\r\n<\/h3>\r\n\r\n

\r\nAdair's Saloon was never a venue I frequented during my concert photography days, but I did end up on the inside once or twice. The scrawled graffiti covering the bathroom walls presented a masterclass in how to create a gritty, dirty scene just ripe for some urban decay photography.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\n\"Bathroom\r\n
\r\nUrban decay inside Adair's Saloon in Deep Ellum, July 2015\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\r\nA call to action\r\n<\/h3>\r\n\r\n

\r\nPolitical machinations often drive resistance, which in turn drives movements and the dissemination of their associated slogans. This was spotted inside the men's bathroom inside Union Station, in downtown Dallas.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\n\"Disrupt\r\n
\r\nInside Union Station, December 2022\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n

\r\nPrying eyes are watching you\r\n<\/h3>\r\n\r\n

\r\nOn my last visit to Montreal, I returned to a club I'd enjoyed several years earlier for a night of live music. This particular night's act was unfortunately uninspiring and bland, the food was horrible, and the bathroom, with its array of celebrity photos on the walls, was somewhat unsettling given the position of one strategically placed portrait.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\n\"Upstairs\" jazz club bathroom, October 2023\r\n
\r\nBathroom inside \"Upstairs\" jazz club in Montreal, 2023\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n
\r\n\"Silje\r\n
\r\nSilje Nergaard looks down at you from above the bathroom urinal\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n

\r\nSomething to read \r\n<\/h3>\r\n\r\n

\r\nThe fall of 2022 saw me making my first international road trip in three years, and my first visit to the province of Manitoba. On the way to Toronto (and eventually southward back to the U.S.) I spent a night in a hostel in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Occupancy was light due to the recently removed pandemic restrictions, but at some point in the not-so-distant past at least one poet had spent a night there.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\n\"Bathroom\r\n
\r\nBathroom poetry inside the Haven Hostel, October 2022\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n

\r\nThe world's worst bathroom floor plan\r\n<\/h3>\r\n\r\n

\r\nI've put up for the night in many, many motels and inns over the years while on the road, and these have ranged from very nice and slightly upscale to a couple of real shitholes. This Mississauga motel room was fairly nice, but it featured the absolute worst bathroom design I've seen anywhere. Seriously, who puts the toilet directly across from the mirror?\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\n\"The\r\n
\r\nTruly horrible design in this motel room bathroom\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n

\r\nA \"how to\" for dummies\r\n<\/h3>\r\n\r\n

\r\nOne sad fact of life is that some people just can't seem to understand proper bathroom etiquette, particularly when it comes to proper use of the facilities and fixtures (versus using the floor). This type of signage, found inside a record store in Grand Prairie, should NOT be necessary.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nA bathroom \"how to\" for dummies<\/a>\r\n
\r\nHow to use a public restroom for dummies\r\n<\/figcption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n

\r\nLitterbugs beware!\r\n<\/h3>\r\n\r\n

\r\nAnd here's the final image, taken inside an Irving, Texas restroom in June 2019. Someone was unhappy about finding this item outside the trash can and decided to do a call out. I've censored the name.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\n\"Litterbugs\r\n
\r\nAnti-littering activism\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n
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