Assorted TASPers Do New York in Style while Relieving Themselves of Bodily Fluids

So, what did we TASPers do on our exhilirating sojourn in the Big Apple? Funny you should ask....we went to the bathroom.
We were walking down Broadway on Times Square, wandering, because we'd missed the train and had nothing to do for an hour. We heard music. Loud, jazzy advertising jingle music. We would've ignored it, but we heard, "Wiggle to the left, wiggle to the right," which was a clear sign that we needed to investigate more. We looked up at the sign, and there were giant Charmin (as in cha-cha-cha) bears right above us, with a sign that said "Charmin Restrooms" (as you can read in the picture to the left of the text). So we rode the escalator up from the entrance into the building.
It was colorful. Actually, it looked like some kind of nursery-meets-political analysts' headquarters. The television screens all had dancing bears and people or maps full of red and blue states and countries. One or the other. The screens with the maps would zoom in on a country or state, show whether Ultra Soft or Ultra Strong was winning in that region, and give the vote tallies (New York and Missouri were blue states, and Arizona was a red state).

The main room was pretty large. There was a line in which one would wait to use the restrooms. There were twenty tiny rooms, each with a nice toilet, six rolls of toilet paper, and a confusing sink. They cleaned each restroom after a person used it, so the place was sanitary. There were also fun photo opportunities in which people could pose with the Charmin bears and some sleds. There was a small gift shop with fairly reasonable prices, and coupon machines that let patrons decide which type of toilet paper they preferred. Ultra Soft was winning.

Love,

Mac AND Laura AND Gili