Eric Bridgman Cafe Closet Bathroom

Now, sometimes I just weird.

I went into the dollar store to use the bathroom (since I needed to buy dollar store items) and because it was an old downtown building, there was no bathroom. Err, well, there was a bathroom? The back of the store had a door to go upstairs since it built in a time when people lived above their shops. So it did have a bathroom, it's just someone's... house.

I was being really not social and I just wanted to use a bathroom. I bought my items and left with as little human contact as possible. Only, I really needed to go. Like terribly so.

I dropped my items into the car, and dashed to the nearest building that might have a bathroom. It was a small cafe: Eric Bridgman's.

Now, when I mean small, I mean tiny. It was a really kozy place for old people. Well, I had lunch waiting in the car and little time to be away from the job site, so I quickly scanned the room for a door or hallway, and the woman across the room (maybe 30' away) asked if she could help me.

"Do you have a bathroom?"
"Do we have a bathroom? Well, sure we do. *sighs* It's in the back of the kitchen."

I dashed as fast as I could, but was stopped in order to sqeeeeeeeeze between the kitchen applicances and few workers. It was the size of a bathroom. Then as I'm almost a foot away from the back exit, I see this less-than-normal sized door leading into a room truly smaller than a closet. Found the bathroom!

I think a port-a-potty would have been bigger. I will say it was cleanish though. Hot, no air, so it was really hot and sticky in there. When I got out, there was an old man standing in the kitchen half-smiling at me, waiting to use the bathroom as he was pinned against the wall between the cook trying to wash a dish or two. As quickly as I had entered I made a mad dash. I knew I wasn't going to buy anything. I thought about giving them a dollar or two for using their bathroom, but I thought that would be more weird, and the lady who greeted me was busy.

I was very thankful for the bathroom even though I probably seemed like the biggest weirdo.

Yes, I straddled the toilet on one foot to take this picture.

Yes, I sat on the sink to take this picture.

Verdict: Not going back. Waaaay too small for comfort and I embarrassed myself with my hit-and-run, so I don't want to show my face around there again.

Lawton Backroom Bathroom

Sometimes in a town it's hard to find a bathroom. There aren't any fastfood places, and the gas stations are too... rustic looking. So I have to get creative or go back towards the highway to find some of my usual places.

In Lawton, I decided to check out the local hardware store, since it looked recently built compared to the rest of the town, so it would have to live up to more modern building codes.


So I'm walking up and down the store for this bathroom, trying to weave in and out aisles not looking suspicious and I see this:

Legit.

It didn't say "employees only" like most back doors do, so I adventured in, and tada! Bathroom.

It was kinda gross looking, not gunna lie. Like the bathroom on the side of an uncompleted man cave in the basement. It was true to the hardware store theme though, complete with random cabinet on a wooden bench/molding thing. The workmanship was good on the wood pieces. Spacious.

Verdict: If I'm ever in Lawton, I might come to this bathroom again, especially if I need something from a hardware store (since I always buy something from the place I go to the bathroom....) However, its far from the best bathroom I've seen.

Big Pipes

Look how big these pipes are! That's what's going underneath I-94 right now that required the crane.

Pipes in a row

Standing next to the row

Communicating by hand signals to the crane operator

Back filling the pipe area

Now we'll be prepared for the worse storm of the next 150 years. (Seriously, that's how engineers figure how big the pipes should be for drainage.)

Owwwies

[From Tuesday, July 16th.]
I got an injury.... Tying my shoes. It was extremely painful. Then sand got in it doing density.

Owww....  All fixed!

The occupational safety guy at the office fixed me up! Everyone was so nice to me, but definitely didn't spare a chuckle when I said I did it tying my shoes.