31 December 2006
Besford
For my money, the very best places for food, drink and recreational urination are those in which the staff – clearly concerned about ensuring that whether the customer is there to ingurgitate or gormandize, every part of the ‘experience’ should be enjoyable – has placed a large block of ice into each urinal just before the dinner rush. When required to make a visit to the facility, the user is entertained by the prospect of trying to help melt the block of ice. Sometimes it’s clearly too large a task for one man to accomplish in one visit. In those cases there appears to be some unspoken male bonding thing that persuades the previous user to see if he can at least split the block into more manageable pieces so that those who come after him can carry on the work.
I’ve run into these frozen urinals in various places. Most recently I encountered one in Spain.
On a commercial basis, especially for bars, they make sense, there is something addictive about trying to melt a small iceberg that encourages the purchase of more beer.
Happy New Year!
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