Sunday, August 2, 2020

Godda boomer post...though not really. Reached a decision concerning day-trips and rest-room facilities, decades ago.

Back in the 80s, i recall hearing - and if not mistaken - the National Organization for Women (are they still around?  will have to google that one) were pushing for government legislation that businesses and such provide extra stalls in women's restrooms.  Some women were fed up with always meeting long lines wherever and whenever they weren't home.

Reason for this post is: another blogger mentioned day-trips, and the hassles for both he and his wife finding restrooms - with this covid...  Yeah, i think this covid is a big scam, but i'd nevertheless be alot more cautious if my husband was still living - he had a heart condition that left him so weak, it was enough for him to go to the mailbox.  Oh yeah, if he were here, i'd be spraying and sani-wiping, and masking - and getting very irritated with people for not wearing their masks.

Anyway, about the restroom issue some 35 years ago.  Reading what the other blogger (Tom) had posted, jogged my memory concerning restrooms, back when boomers were far, far from retirement and unhurried travel.

i was in my 20s, when i had gotten to that amusement park (about an hour from here).  Must have drank a soda on the way, because when i got there, was met by a long winding line.  Outside the men's room, there was less than a dozen men and boys.  Basically concluded, right there and then, going places isn't really worth the hassle.  A few years later, at a rock concert...yep, more lines, less concert.

Btw, some of the women there gave me disapproving looks.  You see, i committed a most abominable sin.  No, i didn't cut in line, or take too long - actually, in the contrary...  The horrendous sin was (oh horrors, if i admit to this one, will i get tossed oudda blogville?)

Drumroll...

i wore a skirt and blouse - to a rock concert.  All the other women were wearing jeans - there might have been one or two wearing dress pants...maybe.  So, just for wanting to wear women's clothing...but i thought the rock-and-roll scene was live-and-let-live.  Evidently not.

Gonna end this post, because i'm curious about what NOW has been up to.  There used to be two chapters in a 20 mile radius from here.

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