PUBLIC TOILET
“…I decided to use the public toilet in the park…”
Hello, Boss:As I walked in Alice Springs in the last days of autumn, the fragrance of the flowers mixed with a faint unwelcome aroma as I decided to use the public toilet in the park opposite Alice Springs Hospital.
I opened the door and was assailed with a replica of the Black Hole of Calcutta.
There was a stench that only hell could improve, the floor was awash with urine and water and the toilet bowl was half filled with excrement. The place was obviously filled with every germ known to man and I could feel my immune system start to falter.
I let the door slam shut on its vandalised lock and walked away.
I then heard the sound of the door being opened again and a voice shouted after me: “Why didn’t you flush the toilet, you white bastard!”
-P. G. Holmes, Alice Springs, Australia.
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