Sanitizer Where You Want It

Numerous time I have heard lamentations over the fact that bar rooms tend to be extremely gross. With immense numbers of unidentified microorganisms crawling all over every surface, it seems a wonder that such queasy people enjoy spending time bellied up to the bar at all.

One experimental bartender in Iowa is pushing for a solution to this problem, providing a bottle of hand sanitizer right on the bar top.  Whether you accidentally touched the bottom of the stool you’re sitting on or you were forced to awkwardly shake hands with an unsavory old high-school classmate, the bottle of germicide is just an arms-length  away.

The bartender has not yet discovered a way to sanitize the bar snacks, “spraying the peanuts and pretzel sticks with Purell just doesn’t seem like a good idea.”

Topsider

The top sides of buildings are often ignored when considering the aesthetic, aren’t they?

Yet, clearly a two story height is not tall enough to keep the roof out of the public eye in Brooklyn.

Looking down from a friend’s apartment, I see a thoroughly rusted-out roof on this gas station, and I begin to think:

• Is this why gas station canopies always seem to leak in whichever spot I park?
• What does this say about Mobil gas?
• Funny to see this kind of roof when BP is out there fitting their gas station roofs with solar panels.
• If I’m paying so much per gallon, why can’t they fix the roof?
• Does it even need fixing? Or is it still structurally sound and just looks bad?