{"id":31,"date":"2003-09-09T16:12:09","date_gmt":"2003-09-09T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/09\/this-flush-is-brought-to-you-by-charmin\/"},"modified":"2003-09-09T16:12:09","modified_gmt":"2003-09-09T23:12:09","slug":"this-flush-is-brought-to-you-by-charmin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/09\/this-flush-is-brought-to-you-by-charmin\/","title":{"rendered":"This flush is brought to you by Charmin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend at the Mountain View Art and Wine festival<\/a>, they had something I’ve never seen before – sponsored restrooms. The Charmin<\/a> “Ultra Potty Palooza”<\/a> was there, which is a 18-wheeler sized trailer with about 20 individual restrooms in it. There were big plasma screens showing Charmin commercials and playing the Charmin ‘theme song’. Apparently they’ve ditched the baby for this cartoon bear now. Funny, I thought bears didn’t need restrooms.<\/p>\n

It kind of looked like one of those haunted house rides you see at fairs, except the ride was inside you. <\/p>\n

This was so weird that I had to try it. I had to wait in line for a while to get in. A bunch of young Charmin representatives escorted you to the nearest available restroom. It was about the size of a airplane bathroom inside, but with a higher ceiling. Near the ceiling was another monitor playing commercials. You had your choice of Charmin Ultra or Charmin Ultra Plus with Aloe and to dry your hands from the small sink was a big ol’ roll of Bounty. I don’t normally think of toilet paper as the kind of product that you can ‘sample’, but the Charmin folks found a way to do it. I’ll admit, it was better than your typical port-o-potty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last weekend at the Mountain View Art and Wine festival, they had something I’ve never seen before – sponsored restrooms. The Charmin “Ultra Potty Palooza” was there, which is a 18-wheeler sized trailer with about 20 individual restrooms in it. There were big plasma screens showing Charmin commercials and playing the Charmin ‘theme song’. Apparently …<\/p>\n

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