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Is this stairwell leaking?

By Roger Clarke on Feb 12, 09 12:39 PM

Anyone else think that Britain, or at least the British, are not housetrained?

I was in a pub car park a couple of weeks ago; it was early evening after a meal so we are not talking stagger out singing Nellie Dean time and I was sitting in my car waiting for someone who had decided to inspect the plumbing before we left when two men in their mid 30s or so came out, walked to a car, urinated in the bushes behind it, got in and drove off.

Now I will admit it is possible they had noticed that the bushes in question were showing signs of marked deficiencies of nitrogen and phosphate and were providing emergency horticultural first aid - but I somehow doubt it.

Last night I was in a multi-storey car park and like almost every multi-storey in the land it is advisable not to touch anything and to avoid breathing as much as possible while passing through the stairwells. This particular one seems to be cleaned on a fairly regular basis with fire hoses. If the floor is uniformly damp then it is clean(ish) but if it is patchily damp then watch where you walk.

Many shops start their day with a mop and a bucket of water and disinfectant in their doorway and we are a nation where public toilets are closed because left open they are either wrecked by vandals or used for nefarious practices.

We just have to admit we are a filthy nation these days.

2 Comments

talkytee said:

I agree with Roger that many stair wells where the public have access to seem to be used as a public toilet it does not seem to happen in other countries which do not have a public convienience so it must indicate that the british public suffer from weak bladders

Roger Clarke Author Profile Pagesaid:

Surprising really. You would have though with all the exercise it gets the bladder muscles would have been toned to give iron grip control although any stroll though a city centre late on a weekend evening would tend to indicate a difficulty in carrying alcholic beverages internally in any quantity for any distance without some sort of mishap.

We seem to be very good at binge drinking but less effectuve at binge thinking.

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