From: Alan
Date: 08 May 97
SONDRA delighted with her tale...
(snip story best read over dinner)This reminds me a lot of Sweeney Todd's, the bar we frequented as students -well not the entire bar but certainly the back 1/4 closest to the toilets. You see there were a few fundamental design flaws in this pub. Firstly the ladies was closer to the bar than the gents so by midnight when things really got going, no one would bother walking all the way to the gents and anyway, by that time it was totally useless due to the second flaw.
Some people would continue to use them regardless of whether or not they flushed and so they became filled with a tasty combination of discarded, un-flushable pads/tampons; piss; fecal matter; toilet paper and vomit. Imagine the colors. Can't ya just smell it?
The gents had a good solid steel trough raised about half a foot above the ground but sadly not a puke-proof drain. By the end of happy hour what was once merely a disgusting piss-house had turned into a truly disgusting piss-house with full motion water feature. This led to some interesting innovations: To start with people would stand on the bowl in an attempt to keep their shoes dry, then empty beer crates would form a bridge but the best I saw was a group for friends simply standing in the (mostly) dry doorway doing their best impression of fire hoses in the general direction of the trough.
The amazing thing about Sweeney's toilet was that no matter how bad the previous night had been, in the morning it was always back in shape and ready to do battle once again.
Cheers
ALAN
To think I 'slept' on that floor more than once...