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National Mall Bathroom Fiasco
Ulmius

Posted on 12/25/2015 10:36:19 AM PST by Ulmius

Me and my family were touring the National Mall this Christmas. One of us had a bathroom emergency, but when we went to every public restroom, they were barred off from public use. We even tried to kick the Plexiglas window down near one's door to no avail, and the nearest usable restroom was more than a mile away, so we had to go on the ground. The park police told us they refuse to open them, but we saw then busy feeding the horses. They kept driving right by the bathroom.


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1 posted on 12/25/2015 10:36:19 AM PST by Ulmius
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To: Ulmius

Government sucks.


2 posted on 12/25/2015 10:39:33 AM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: Ulmius

The next president has some house cleaning to do.


3 posted on 12/25/2015 10:44:15 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Ulmius

They were probably for transgendered only.


4 posted on 12/25/2015 10:44:16 AM PST by lowbridge
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They’re probably closed to avoid “discriminating” while they retool to accommodate the new profusion of imaginary self-identified genders.


5 posted on 12/25/2015 10:45:40 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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Conclusions?

They should have arrested you for trying to kick in the window.

6 posted on 12/25/2015 10:48:21 AM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35

Lol


7 posted on 12/25/2015 10:49:24 AM PST by Ulmius
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To: Ulmius

I never had a problem finding a public bathroom in that area. Jefferson Memorial and Lincoln Memorial has them. Also, an abundance of Starbucks locations nearby.


8 posted on 12/25/2015 10:51:52 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Ulmius

The 8 Best Public Bathrooms In D.C.
http://dcist.com/2015/08/when_you_have_to_go_dcs_best_public.php

Union Station is my destination of choice at the north end of the mall; things a little more difficult at the south end.


9 posted on 12/25/2015 10:52:21 AM PST by PAR35
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All of DC is a toilet... pick your spot.


10 posted on 12/25/2015 10:55:08 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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Are these the ones that were closed? And what time of day was it, anyway?


11 posted on 12/25/2015 10:55:20 AM PST by PAR35
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Oops; omitted the link:

http://washington.org/DC-faqs-for-visitors/where-can-i-find-public-restrooms-national-mall


12 posted on 12/25/2015 10:56:03 AM PST by PAR35
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If the doors on the government bathrooms sense a clear gender, they won’t open. The gender privileged, as you did, must pee in the outdoors now. It is to shame you by making you expose and thereby acknowledge your penis or vagina, which you stole from the Sioux with small pox blankets.


13 posted on 12/25/2015 10:56:23 AM PST by tinyowl (A equals A, And C Edmund Wright thinks I am an idiot and a Trump Sycophant)
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To: PAR35

We were near the Lincoln memorial, and it was a few minutes ago. NOTHING was open.


14 posted on 12/25/2015 10:59:55 AM PST by Ulmius
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We were near the Lincoln memorial, and it was a few minutes ago. NOTHING was open.

That sucks. No Smithsonian buildings at that end of The Mall, as I recall.

Plenty of restrooms in the Smithsonian buildings, for what it's worth. Sorry you had to go through that. :-(

15 posted on 12/25/2015 11:02:41 AM PST by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: tinyowl

That was “A Moment Inside A College Liberal’s Mind”, brought to you in hilariously accurate detail by tinyowl.


16 posted on 12/25/2015 11:04:25 AM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Ulmius
nearest usable restroom was more than a mile away, so we had to go on the ground.

It's times like these we really could use a Clinton or Obama statue around the place.

17 posted on 12/25/2015 11:06:11 AM PST by Zack Attack
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You do realize your activities were recorded by hidden cameras with facial and nether regions are being identified by NSA and a 12 year old Chinese hacker already posted a youtube of you.


18 posted on 12/25/2015 11:21:17 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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He can see me then, in ALL of my glory.


19 posted on 12/25/2015 11:23:17 AM PST by Ulmius
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To: Ulmius
Hotels almost always work. There's at least one within a half mile of the Lincoln Memorial.

ML/NJ

20 posted on 12/25/2015 11:25:43 AM PST by ml/nj
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