14 December 2007

Brilliant!

A woman in London has come up with a superb idea: a cell phone–based toilet finder. By sending the word “toilet” to the specified number, the user gets info on the nearest public lavatory.

I have on occasion been caught in public with dire need of a WC, but little idea of where to find one. Those experiences are awkward and often embarrassing. One such occasion ended in a particularly cathartic visit to a Catholic church (luckily it was not during mass). The 50 cents for the text in one of these situations would be well worth it.