I can't believe what happened at the 2019 annual conference for the Singapore branch of Toastmasters International, an all day affair with many guests in an auditorium.
At the morning breaktime, lunchtime and teatime everybody rushed to the toilets. One cubicle in the Ladies. Only one cubicle, a male friend confirmed, in the Gents.
This was in the Grassroots Community Club building beside the bus station beside the train station at Yio Chu Kang on the red line.
Station Toilets
Luckily I went to the public toilets between the train station and the bus station on my way. They had three cubicles.
Upon taking possession of a cubicle, I discovered that the toilet paper was outside. (A big roll by the doorway.)
This was the area I had previously praised for the amusing cartoons of musicians on the tiles. Male musicians. I wonder whether the Gents also had male musicians, or female musicians.
Both the station toilet and the Grassroots club had the luxury of a shower head for washing your nether regions. But after you have washed down with water and feel clean it would be good to dry off again. Toilet paper please.
And more toilet cubicles.
One thing I am grateful for, that you find toilets outside very railway station in Singapore.
UK
In the UK the good news is that charges have been scrapped at toilets at stations in the UK.
When I was a child you could spend a penny to use a toilet cubicle. Of the six or twelve cubicles, one would be free. Usually not as clean as the other toilets. And if occupied, you had to wait. But at least everybody could use a toilet whether or not they had the right change.
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