Taking a leak

What happens when a homeless person has to urinate or defecate? This question presented itself to me one night when I was ascending Madison Street after delivering sack lunches to the homeless. I was in bad need of a urinal, and all the stores were closed. Finally I headed down a dark alley in search of a bush.

But what does a homeless person do in broad daylight after they've had a meal or something to drink, and they are needing a commode?

There is an answer to this. It used to be the pissoir, a public urinal introduced in France in 1830 on public boulevards, just in time to be used as barricades in the French revolution. Despite the inauspicous introduction, pissoirs continued to be used in Paris right up until the late 20th Century, when an improved accommodation, the sanisette, was introduced to serve both natural needs. Wikipedia describes the sanisette as a "self-contained, self-cleaning, unisex, public toilet." Paris pays for them.

Actually, there already are several public restrooms and drinking fountains in Seattle, which I was able to locate on Google map, via a search for public restrooms in Seattle. However, it seems to me that a city of a half million swimming in wealth could do more -- and not just for street people. Seattle is a destination city, and the tourists, hikers and walkers might need to take a leak -- or more --once in a while without having to depend on what sometimes has been referred to as "shithouse luck."
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