The Remarkable Fools Letter

The Remarkable Fools Letter

oh les toilettes

on public washroom symphonies

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Jim Dalling
Sep 23, 2025
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Ah dear reader,

Though I’m a troll,

I’ve found some who have outdone even yours truly.

You see, this summer, I’ve spent a great deal of time in public washrooms.

No,

I was not ‘looking for love in all the wrong places’.

My work was such that when I needed to leave a politician at the swirly porcelin palace, I had to do so in a very shared, public, somewhat pubic place.

With this in mind, I’ve come to discover some of the most masterful things you can do in a public restroom without baiting a single soul.

Today for example, I encountered a real power move.

In the stalls?

Two men were grunting out grinders.

They were a chorus of heavy breathing and gutteral groans as they gave birth to activists.

They sounded a bit like two bound up fog horns gagged with a codfish and tinged with brass clamp on their testes.

In short, they were majestic.

(I was there in the handycapped can, changing into my work shirt listening with delight as they literally changed the air in the room.

Soon?

The atmosphere changed wh…

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