The first alarming report about toilet availability during the Inauguration Ceremony I saw was in December, when they were estimating, roughly, a ratio for people to toilets of about 6,849: 1. I remember my jaw dropping, the corners of my mouth curling, and the laughter that soon followed.
That was, of course, back when I was sure I would be watching the Inauguration at school, with my students at my side and free bathrooms as far as the eye could see.
Now that I will be attending, let's just say I've given my morning water intake that day more than a little thought. A friend at Grant Wood Elementary today told me the ratio had dropped to 1,000: 1. Let's assume, worst case scenario, that I'm the thousandth person in line, and each person before me takes, on average, two minutes (maybe too generous a guess). That would mean a wait of just over a half hour. Should I be excited by this suddenly improved ratio? I guess it does beat the daylights out of the more than three hour wait the previous ratio would have promised, but come on.
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