A Restroom in a Service Station

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La’Teeia Spain English 093(Revised Essay) Wylee Rogers October 30, 2013 A Restroom in a Service Station After a long and tiring journey, my father and I went to The Costa Rican Restroom Service Station in Reform. My father was driving a 1956 yellow limousine which was extremely expensive and comfortable. I was in the back seat right behind my father. Typically, my father always insists on having the four doors because he did not like bending over to let me over into the rear seat. We had stopped at the station to buy gas and talk to some of our friends who were having some rest at the station. At first glance, of the stations the environment was pleasant judging from the well-fashioned appearance of the service station. After we entered the station, I sought permission from my father to go to the restroom. There were two restrooms in the station with wording such as colored only and white only. I chose to enter the colored restroom, and the doorknob was missing, and a tree limb was hanging on the door. There laid on the floor unsanitary tissue papers with feces on it and dirty maxi pads and tampons. Although, the restroom was filthy, smelly, and nauseating. The racial segregation and unfair treatment of people that still exists was just as bad. The filthy, smelly, and nauseating environment at the colored restroom prompted me to enter the white-labeled restroom. The white restroom was clean and had doorknobs. It was striking to people that a semblance between the colored and white restrooms did not exist. Although outside the door of the colored restroom was white, the inside was dirty it had mud all over the floors, There was tissue papers all on the floor, feces was all over the ceramic toilets and the smell was harsh it smell like mildew and an old garbage disposal it hadn’t been cleaned in decades . The outside seem more available than the facilities
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