Public Restroom at Charleston County Public Library

Public Restroom at Charleston County Public Library - Main

Well, folks, you asked for it and here I am to deliver. This was one of the most highly requested bathrooms I have ever reviewed, so my expectations were high. Unfortunately, I found this bathroom to be largely unremarkable.

For the most part, this bathroom was fairly standard. Two urinals and a handicap accessible stall, so you and all your cripple friends can pee freely. You can also find a baby-changing station and two automatic hand dryers here, as well as the traditional paper towel dispensers for all you purists out there.

The one thing that this bathroom has that no other bathroom I've seen can offer is high quality bathroom reading. They do ask that you not bring reading material into the restroom but I think that's more of a suggestion like not driving drunk or not forcing your children to wear spandex bodysuits and body oil so you can practice wrestling moves on them. Some of the original manuscripts they possess in the Charleston room make for especially good bathroom break material.

Also, the door too the bathroom was open, which I can only think would be a turn off for some of the people who go to the library to read and do homework. The last thing I would want to hear while reading is the librarian relieving himself on his lunchbreak just a few feet away from me.

I wish I had more to say about this bathroom, but there really isn't much to it. I think that if the Charleston County Public Library invested a bit of time and money into this restroom, they would draw in far more customers. One thing my family has always said is "bathrooms bring business, and the bombing of Pearl Harbor was actually a plot orchestrated by the Australian government to distract the United States long enough to steal its Minnesotan peanut oil reserves," and I think that really sums up how I feel about this bathroom. You may think that this is just a restroom, but there is a lot to be learned here. The effect that a good public restroom has on local commerce has gone largely unstudied. I hope to delve into this topic further in my coming reviews. If reviewing bathrooms has taught me anything, it's that professionalism goes a long way and I carry that lesson with me throughout my daily life. I think that by having a restroom that is as plain and simple as this one does kind of suit the library, but in the larger scheme of things, they are losing customers and revenue. This world is due for a "Bar Rescue" type of reality show where patrons of the Charleston County Public Library are secretly filmed upon entering the bathroom to get their real reactions.

Just something to think about.

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