My good friend John Goalby recently sent me a link to a story about an "art toilet" in London.

The thing is sitting out on the sidewalk, and its walls are one-way mirrors, allowing people using the facilities to get a full view of everything going on around them, but allowing outsiders to do little more than check their hairdos in the reflection on the outside.

I, for one, think this is the most awesomest toilet in the whole universe. I wish there were one near my home, because I'd use it in a heartbeat - OCD be damned!

I don't know why, or what's wrong with me, but the idea of peeing while knowing that I can see people who can't see me just seems so cool. It also reminds me a bit of time I spent living in France, where you could pee on the sidewalk in front of everybody, except that they could see you because there weren't any walls. You also had to share the sidewalk with several other people, and things got complicated when there was a lot of pedestrian traffic.

The English solution, methinks, is quite a bit better.

And, as Kori and I discussed, people aren't just going to use this for potty time. It's totally unavoidable that a couple people are going to go in there and engage in some hanky panky.

Now that would be fun.

If any of you, friends and readers, have had any direct experience with this fine toilet, then please make a mention of it in the comments - I'd love to hear about some real world looing with this thing.