i used to as part of my weekend job working in an old hospital have to walk the breadth of it and at some point decided that i would try to use every single bathroom in the place. Over the course of months i found many cool nooks and quiet bathrooms but i never finished the mission because i found the PERFECT bathroom.
in the middle of an access hallway, up some narrow stairs, was a dead-end office. The only entrance was this one stairwell. Sun-facing windows looked out over the roof of the building and west, shining in on a bank of training computers. smell of warm dust and absolute quiet.
someone knew of it, cuz there was always toilet paper, but in my many trips to that special place i never saw a soul. Something about that place i can’t describe to you, the vibe, the feel. it was perfect. I abandoned my efforts to find better and instead would walk past other open bathrooms just to use that one again.
I still think about that room sometimes. Never been paid to poo in a better one.
I’ve often that about that if I could design a house, I’d have a room just like this. Like there would be a section of the house that was tower like and the only way to get to the room at the top would be to take an exterior balcony-like-staircase from the second floor to the room in question - the sole room on the “third floor”.
There’s just something about a room like that that makes it fell so isolated, peaceful and serene. And the exterior access makes it feel like a little adventure getting there. Like if the weather were bad you might opt not to go there because it would mean gearing up to make the trip.
I want to build a house that has stairs that go nowhere and a bunch of hidden passages and rooms that only makes sense if you live there
Ah, the Winchester Mystery House approach
that’s where you can find the BFG in this early level
The factory I work at has a bathroom like that. Most of the place is loud and noisy as hell. One place is quiet. Quiet enough to where you could remove your earplugs. There is a bathroom there that always has its lights off. Nobody else uses it. THAT is my “secret” throne.
FromSoftware HQ.
I have badly needed a shit all day but I work outdoors. Unfortunately not quite outdoors enough, though. Two more hours to go, or thereabouts, wish me luck and sphinctoral fortitude.
Reminds me of that bridge in Half Life 2
