Thursday, February 11, 2010

Love, peace and whatever to all mankind

Today, I was at Sun Plaza on assignment when I suddenly felt mother nature calling. I was at the ground level and I saw a sign to the loo. I snuck into the nearest one and when I saw what the place looked like, I beat a hasty retreat.

Honestly, if you'd told me at the moment that an elephant had escaped from the zoo, run into Sun Plaza and crapped in that toilet, I would have believed you. I'm serious.

Note to people: When there is a hole in the floor, you crap into the hole, not all around it. Thank you.

So I was like really grossed out, and yet I had a personal emergency to attend to. I did not feel like running to the loos upstairs because I was convinced they would be just as... hygiene challenged.

And at that moment, I saw something divine that sang out to me. It was this.



I know that able-bodied people are not supposed to use them, so I looked all around for any probable disabled people before I did. By probable, I meant physically as well as mentally disabled, like those weird people you see hanging around leering at young girls.

Having ascertained that even those were not in the vicinity, I proceeded to make use of the best toilet in the shopping centre. Clean, pristine, well furnished with its own personal set of mirrors, basin, a nappy changing area where you can put your bag, and a full roll of toilet paper.

I have to say it again. The toilet bowl was white and unblemished. In a public toilet sense that is like striking 4D.

How much more awesome can a public toilet get. Just using it you feel like a king.