Places to go in Iowa City


View IC You Pee in a larger map

Thursday, February 11, 2010

The Mill

Red! Red is the color of the walls. Also the color of my face if I try
to use this room with another person. That is probably the most
pathetic privacy wall I have ever seen. I do like the color, but the
place is so unclean and the urinals hardly work, which is amazing
because all a urinal has to do to function is flush. They aren't
completely unusable, however, and I was able to go, so I will rate
this a barely adequate 2/5.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Jean Lloyd Jones' House

A beautiful home and a beautiful bathroom. Being at Jean's house made me think about what I might want in a dream home and this bathroom was no exception. A smart and simple design, featuring Kohler fixtures, this bathroom was elegant without being ostentatious and had hints of the Japanese styling present in the rest of the house. I hope to have a 5/5 bathroom like this someday.

Taco Bell

This was actually a really nice Taco Bell, so I guess I shouldn't have been that surprised that the bathroom was nice too, but still, I was
surprised! Clean, warm, and comfortable, this 4/5 will be the bathroom I compare all fastfood bathrooms to.

Menards

I was walking into Studio Arts soon after it opened and a man pulled
up, rolled his window down, and asked me, "Does Menards not exist
anymore"? Well, it does and you can pee there. It's kind of nice to be
able to look at ads while you're there, but this was the only place I
saw the ads, and I didn't exactly want to hang around for light
reading. I was kind of occupied. Nothing else really stood out, but I
guess I was distracted. The price on hand drills gets a 5/5, but the bathroom gets a 3/5.

Thai Flavors

I try not to compare bathrooms, necessarily, I don't use an ordinal
scale, but the bathroom at Taco Bell was a million times nicer than
this. It seems that bad bathrooms are kind of typical for Asian
restaurants, or is that just me? I'm glad to see that they do have
cleaning products, but they shouldn't be strewn about the room amongst trash. Anyways, I won't hold this against Thai Flavors too much, but my love for their curry still won't push my rating above a 2/5.

BS Gallery

I'm a non-practicing Jew, so I don't often find myself surrounded by images of Jesus, but it was oddly comforting. An average bathroom made much more interesting by a chorus of Christ, it also smelled awesome due to burning incense and candles. I review bathroom experiences, not just bathrooms, and this was a 5/5 experience.

Colonial Lanes

Some of the most interesting bathrooms I've been in were at bowling
alleys. Not always the cleanest, but usually pretty interesting. Well,
I can't complain that it looks and smelt like a locker room, because
it literally is a locker room. The urinals had no privacy and the
locks were gone on the stall doors, such that you could peek through.
I did. I left without going, but I could have, so I guess I have to rate it a 2/5.