Cheap Therapy

Given that what used to the K.K’s was reopening as (Basement on Broadway – BOB, I thought I’d stop in to its third (in my experience) incarnation (student dive, then faux hunting lodge replete with styrofoam wood beams stuck to the ceiling, now hoseable concrete bunker). One $8 pint of Bock Dark later and I’m too close to the band for quiet conversation, as their music bounces off the hard furnishings. I’m thinking it’s probably going to take until the start of semester 1 2009 for the pub to be properly broken in.

But what I didn’t realise was… the toilets! Hidden behind a curved glass wall, with no signage other than the implicit ‘you noticed there’s a handle, pull’. It’s then into an antechamber and thence into the toilet of your choice. The boys loo was so dark one could barely see, other than the purple cold cathode lighting. Could barely see the curved wall with water running down it from the roof into the trough at the bottom, being the nowhere-to-lean-or-graffitti urinal (at least, I hope it was . But there is another light source somewhere. Oh, that would be because the curved wall is one way glass. And there’s everyone outside, in front of you. Which is why it’s dark on the inside because if it wasn’t all would be revealed much to the horror of all parties involved I’m sure…

Then there’s the ’sink’, which is a pipe from the ceiling with a proximity sensor. The water hits a ledge that deflects it away from you onto the drain in the floor. Much harder for wayward drunks to clog up. Unfortunately the paper towels and bin are a lot less high tech.

Oh, and if you want chips you may want to not drop in until after 6 when the deep fryer has warmed up, but I’m guessing they’ll be turning it on earlier in future.