We brought a picnic lunch, played baseball/soccer/football/bubbles with Tate, ran around with Lindsey and Dan's dogs and enjoyed the afternoon sun. Perfect.
Except for the rough start in the first 10 minutes, thanks to this:
ROBOT BATHROOM
Seeming like a very modern, clean, port-a-potty-of-the-future, I had no hesitation about making a quick pit stop as we entered the park. I was even a little impressed with the park at first for embracing this space-aged technology.
The instructions were clearly marked. You push a button on the outside to open the door and then push a similar button on the inside to close it. The door slowly closes, a red light confirms that the door is locked, and your robot host (voice from above) welcomes you and tells you that you now have 10 minutes to complete your business. How pleasant!
Too bad that the robot LIES!!!! No more than 1 minute into this adventure - and in the most compromising and vulnerable position possible - I notice the metal door slowly beginning to OPEN! In this situation, I would imagine that one has 2 choices:
- Choice A: Remain calm. Quickly pull up your pants, ignore the few pedestrians (and passing traffic on 10th Street) and casually depart the bathroom as if pushing the button at this stage of the process was the desired intention all along. Result: Very little attention drawn to yourself.
- Choice B: Wildly dash to the corner of the metal box with pants around your ankles and begin shrieking at the top of your lungs - throwing in a few obscenities for added effect. Depart the bathroom flustered and red-faced with a bevy of onlookers from a ~100 yard radius. Result: Entire park now snickering about the 9-month pregnant woman who just got tricked by the robot bathroom and peed in public.
One can only guess which choice I made.
But, hey, this is just one person's experience. You can check out this site on yelp for 16 other reviews...some of while hail this bathroom as a "must do" in Atlanta.
If that's the case, I've gladly checked this one off as "complete".
Only you! This is so funny, thanks for making me laugh this morning. Sorry you got caught with your pants down, literally! Good part: since you are pregnant now, when you return to Piedmont Park, not pregnant, maybe no one will recognize you!
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