Road Trip
Well more like a two hour run to Sunset Point to pick up two of the kids – but I digress.
The rest rooms at Sunset Point are designed so that half of the bathroom can be closed off from the other and cleaned/maintained while half the facilities remain available for use. There is a type of locking stall door that blocks the two halves from each other and they used to keep it open so one could use the least crowded space, only locking it when afformentioned cleaning was taking place. This hasn’t been the case in some time, but in theory it’s a great idea. There are two entrances as well so that it all makes sense.
Since I am a “regular” to this rest stop I usually go around to the “back entrance” and use the often less crowded half. Yesterday as I was about to use the facilities the cross-eyed in-bred lowest bidding contractor that the State of AZ Department of Transportation uses to maintain these facilities walked in and announced, “this restroom is closed. There’s another one on the other side,” in a manner eerily similar to “everyone out of the pool!” I guess I must have looked a little stunned at this behavior (which only would have seemed ruder had he grabbed me by the belt and pulled me away from the urinal) since he spoke again, “I’m serious. This restroom’s closed we have to fix it.”
Not really wanting to teach some manners to the plunger wielding moron I merely kept my mouth shut and used to the other half of the restroom. But it makes me wonder how it is that the state decides to award these contracts. In some respects these are the emissaries that our state puts forth as a point of contact for tourists. Great impression. I can only imagine that if someone were in one of the stalls that they would have pounded on the door until that person left.
To top it off, they didn’t even put up a closed sign of any kind. Instead, plunger boy probably just waved his urine soaked instrument at anyone who dared to enter his domain.
