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Festivals
and road races are where you find the most impressive displays of
port-o-potty’s. I’ve seen as many as 30 or 40 port-o-potty’s
strung out next to each other. Back 20 years ago you were lucky to
find 5 port-o-potty’s together at an outdoor concert, with long
lines. The port-o-potty business must be doing well..
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The NYC Marathon doesn’t furnish enough port-o-potty’s. I’ve
never run one but I hear it takes 45 minutes for people in the
back just to get to the start line after the gun has sounded
(nowadays 30,000 people run it). By that time a whole lot of folks
have to use a port-o-potty.. So it’s become custom for guys to
pee off the side of the Verrazano Bridge (I don’t know what the women do; maybe they pee off the side
too) – you’ll literally see thousand of guys peeing off the
side of the bridge 30 minutes into the race. (Not to be in the
fireboat at the bottom of the bridge.)
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Grete
Waitz sure could have used a port-o-potty when she was winning 7
straight women’s marathon’s back in the early nineties. Every
year she was getting a bad case of the runs at the 20 mile mark,
refused to use a port-o-potty, and instead, just kind of ‘ran’
through it (read that, port-o-pottied in her pants).
There
are nuances about the port-o-potty too – like how society hides
urinals from woman in all aspects of life, except for the
port-o-potty, where it’s thrust in their face like it or not.
Everyone
seems to have a port-o-potty story: Meeting
someone on the port-o-potty line, making fun of someone who was
taking too slow, ignoring the universal port-o-potty
red-occupied/green-vacant sign and accidentally opening up the
doors on someone, guarding the port-o-potty door for your kid, and
so forth. We encourage you to send
your stories in to us here at paperbacknovel.com.
In
the meantime, we begin our port-o-potty photo essay.
First
installment coming next week.
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