All Bathrooms Should Be Public 🚽
Summary
A straphanger advocates for mandatory public bathrooms in all New York businesses, telling Kareem she faces a monthly crisis of "Am I going to find a bathroom or do I kill myself?" The conversation captures a uniquely New York problem: everywhere else, asking to use a restroom gets you a yes, but here you're told it's out of order. She's experienced this enough to declare it should be illegal. Kareem questions why they're not petitioning the city for more public restrooms instead of putting it on businesses. Her answer? Do both. It's a practical take on urban infrastructure that anyone who's desperately searched for a bathroom in Manhattan immediately understands.
Full Transcript
All public businesses in New York should be required to have a public bathroom. 3,000% agree. Can you relate to that? Every time I go outside there's no bathroom. I experience this at least once a month. I'm like, "Am I going to find a bathroom or do I kill myself?" Basically, it should be illegal.
And you only experience that really in New York because most places you just go, "Can I use your bathroom?" and they go, "Yes, yes." Exactly. Here you say, "Can I use the bathroom?" and they say it's out of order. So why are we not petitioning the city to just add more public restrooms? Why are we placing it on the businesses? We should do both, I think.
So what's your take?