Everyone knows the feeling.
When you’ve got to go, you’ve got to go – and nothing better stand in your way.
But what if I told you there was a land ruled by people who will obstruct your path to the toilet and shake you down for money during your time of need? You would be outraged. Surely, such a place cannot exist. Interfering with such a basic human need just to make a buck is perverse, if not inhumane!
But these horrors do occur every day, and it not where you might guess.
No it’s not in Burma, under the sick dictates of a military Junta.
And it is not some profiteering Somali pirate camp.
No sir. These outrages occur daily in Europe. A place that calls itself civilized.
Imagine, finding yourself in the most dire need of relief, and just when you stumble across a restroom facility it hits you: they are going to make you pay to pee. You’re going to be forced to tear through your pockets in search of spare change to hand over to the bouncer or feed to the often broken automated machine before they will let you in.
The horror and indignity of it all.
For all their blustering and grandstanding about human rights, equality and the dignity of man, the Europeans have a perverted tendency to exploit those in need of a toilet just to make a quick buck. Sure they might have niceties like universal pensions, 6-weeks paid vacation and in-home day care. But the most fundamental right is to pee for free.
Without it they have nothing.*
*Except, perhaps, for a rather acrid smell coming from many of their rivers and side streets, particularly in Rome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBt6uMJSV_M
That fucking stinks! Europe sucks big time!
It’s true – the majority are so full of shit in America – imagine having to pay to release it. Oh, and your public bathrooms are filthy too.
Those toilets are only in places where a lot of American tourists gather…
True… True…
this is the dumbest website i’ve ever seen, almost all of the things you list as benefits in america are negatives. it’s all just a sign of how lazy people are here. drive everywhere, sit glued to the TV, eating junkfood, don’t even know your neighbor. i mean, i like urbanized american cities like San Francisco and the like, but i would take Europe any day.
This issue has actually prevented me from spending money that i otherwise would spend in Europe. Here is the logic behind the last statement. Wow it is a really hot day. no stores have aircon so i have to drink a lot of liquid. oh no i cant do that because i will eventually have to use a toilet. better off to just stay home and go downtown on a cooler day. these thoughts have crossed my mind several times while travelling and living in germany. it is better to stay in the cellar on hot days than go downtown and contribute to the economy. so the measly amount of money that stores save by not using airconditioning and charging customers for using toilets is nothing compared to the money they lose by operating things in a customer unfriendly way.