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Pee Post

I haven't seen much on a matter of utmost importance, which was the subject of a world conference held in Beijing last week, for which I didn't have time or money to attend.

The World Toilet Organization held its annual confab. The WTO (which everyone in the organization affectionately calls it) seeks to promote sanitation issues in public restrooms; create a world-wide awareness of the importance of a cool toilet environment; promote research in the ever-evolving fields of toilet usage and design, and cleanliness; promote the need for better toilet standards; generate the exchange of ideas on health and cutural matters related to toilets; and to publish and disseminate research and information on toilets, restrooms, and the sanitation of each.

It is no wonder that the public restrooms and toilets in the USA are disgracefully filthy. The USA is not a member nation of the WTO nor has the USA been invited to be a member. When it comes to toilets, the United States is not a world power and more like a third-world nation.

Invited to the conference, however, was a representative of the International Paruresis Association, which counts as its potential members those who find it particularly difficult or impossible to pee in front of or within earshot of others (The IPA recently filed suit claiming that one of its members was fired when he couldn't pee in the bottle for a drug test and that the firing was unlawful because he was discrimated against on account of his disability, which was, you guessed it, paruresis; but that suit is, in my opinion, doomed to failure as the disability does not substantially impair a major life function.)

I am pleased to tell you that soon the quality and cleanliness of America's restrooms will be changing for the better with the founding in September of this year, just 6 short weeks ago, the North American Restroom Association in Baltimore, Maryland, which, come to think about it, is at the mouth of the Potomac River, recipient of all of the effluent emanating from Washington, D.C. What better place for such an organization?

For one who hates using public restrooms and has seen with his own eyes vast crowds of concert-goers peeing in sinks they mistook for urinals, this is good news.

Posted by Bill at November 22, 2004 05:58 PM