Monday, September 12, 2005

Evil malls with evil toilets

Went shopping to Kluuvi and Kämp Galleria. Or rather tried to. Problem was, needed to piss.

Both places are now featuring toilets that ask you for a card that you are supposed to get from a business where you are a customer. This is just mildly annoying in some reasonably quiet restaurant. In a mall - you gotta be fucking kidding. Do you mean that I am supposed to either stand in line or fight through the line in H&M in order to ask the cashier "auntie, auntie, may I go on a potty?" Yeah, right.

I don't even see a point. Do they want to limit the toilet use to real customers? Doesn't work: pretending to be a customer of a clothing store is quite trivial. Do they want to limit it only to customers who actually buy something? I am sure everyone who wants both to piss and shop will just happily browse through the racks of clothes and keep hoping they manage to find something appropriate, try it on and buy it before they really need to go.

Bugger them. Went to Aleksi and Stockmann, which have normal toilets, and shopped there.

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