{"id":82783,"date":"2020-12-22T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/?p=82783"},"modified":"2020-12-22T05:00:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T10:00:49","slug":"the-old-coot-cant-find-a-terlit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2020\/12\/22\/the-old-coot-cant-find-a-terlit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Coot Can\u2019t Find a Terlit"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a subject that nobody talks about. Yet, it\u2019s a serious problem, has been for decades. We\u2019ve got a \u201cterlit\u201d crisis on our hands, at least that\u2019s how they say it in Brooklyn. <\/span><\/p>\n

In the rest of the country, it\u2019s called a rest room crisis. There aren\u2019t any! At least not when you need one. Public rest rooms are scarcer than proverbial hen\u2019s teeth. Our government has turned its\u2019 back on the issue. They\u2019ve thrown us a few bones, there are rest rooms along interstate highways and sometimes we are allowed to use the facilities in municipal buildings, provided we get there on Monday through Friday between nine and five, it isn\u2019t a public holiday, we are wearing a mask and we can make it through the security checkpoint with a nail clipper (or some other deadly weapon) in our pocket. <\/span><\/p>\n

But, for the most part, our elected officials have ignored the \u201cterlit\u201d crisis.    <\/p>\n

Actually, they haven\u2019t just ignored it; they\u2019ve exacerbated it. They\u2019ve made nature\u2019s call a crime. If there aren\u2019t public \u201cfacilities\u201d around and you get caught with your pants down behind a bush, you will be arrested. <\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve just finished an election cycle and not a single candidate mentioned the terlit crisis. Politicians have strapped us in our cars, taken cell phones out of our hands, defaced all the products we buy with warning labels and are forcing our favorite restaurants to prepare food in politically correct cooking oil, but they stick their heads in the sand when we ask them, \u201cCan I use the terlit please?\u201d Candidates are promising all kinds of new programs: free health care, $5,000 savings bonds for new babies, 401K accounts, but not one word about what we\u2019re supposed to do when we\u2019ve had three cups of coffee and are looking for a public rest room. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGo find a gas station,\u201d they tell us.  <\/p>\n

We\u2019re lucky; there is a public rest room in our village (it\u2019s in the same building as the Tioga Visitor Center on Front Street). The town also provides restrooms at Hickories Park. I walk there quite often; it\u2019s a busy place. A lot of walkers, runners, skaters, bikers, sled riders, x-country skiers, picnickers and kids go there. Even in the winter! <\/span><\/p>\n

I thought we had a Terlit crisis this fall. The rest rooms were locked, and all the port-o-johns were removed. The whole place became a rest room; find your favorite bush. <\/p>\n

But I was wrong. I called Town Supervisor Don Castellucci to complain, my favorite pastime. He thanked me for the heads up and said he\u2019d check into it and fix it. <\/span><\/p>\n

HE DID. The bathroom on the hill in the main campground is heated and open, though the road to it is closed. But, so what; we\u2019re there to get exercise. They also plan to install a port-a john on the other side of the creek, in the vicinity of the dog park. All they need to do is add a message to the bathroom-closed signs that says the one on the hill is open. <\/span><\/p>\n

As for the rest of the country, maybe some entrepreneur will come along and figure out that there is money to be made, and a lot of it, by simply opening a chain of public Terlits; like the ones in many European countries. I hope so. I hate to keep asking, \u201cWhere\u2019s the Terlit!\u201d<\/p>\n

Comments, complaints? Send to \u2013 mlessler7@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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