The Bathroom App

From what I hear, there is an app for everything. From stealing people's butterfingers to Angry Birds, you would think that the companies have got it all covered when it comes to making life a little less stressful and a little more enjoyable. However, you would think wrong!

Today, I stumbled upon an idea that would fill a need for society as a whole and can indeed make some bucks. Imagine you are on a road trip. Nature calls. What usually happens next? For pretty much everyone, you find the nearest roadside gas station to number 1 and/or 2 in and refill on Mike and Ikes and Mountain Dew, thus completing the cycle. Now... imagine your average po-dunk gas station bathroom. If you're lucky they have a toilet seat and colorful writings on the wall from the local gangs and vagabonds, which always makes for great bathroom reading. Occasionally you hit the jackpot with a public restroom, though. You get all the amenities. Touch free sinks and towel dispensers, foaming hand soap, and two-ply toilet paper are always bonuses in making your experience more enjoyable. However, these diamonds in the rough are only found on luck alone. That is until someone creates The Bathroom App.

This is exactly what happened to me today. As I was driving back to Nashville, I had to make a pit stop. So I walk in to this gas station while Apu points me to the restroom where I then enter and get on to taking care of business. It's the usual craphole (pun intended) smelling like pee and vomit. I have a thing about public toilets. I don't trust them at all. I always go through the same routine every time I have to sit on one. I soap up some toilet paper and proceed to sterilize the seat before laying a solid layer of toilet paper on it. So after I've finished all of that, I sit down only to notice a hole in the door where the doorknob should go. I look through it for about a minute until, of course, according to Murphy's Law the next logical thing happens. I see an eye. So here I am, at my most vulnerable, getting peeked in on by some stranger (turned out to be a little kid) as I think to myself there has got to be a better way.

The mouse in my head jumped on his wheel and started running. About 5 minutes later, I had a solution. Why not have a cell phone app that accesses a user reviewed, up-datable database containing locations for clean restrooms throughout the world? With all of the technology out there and apps for just about everything, there is no reason that we shouldn't already have this in place. All you would need to do is either type in a location or have the GPS locator on and it would give a list of the highest rated bathrooms nearby. I did a little bit of research and couldn't find anything like this. I did find a website devoted to bathroom ratings, but an app would be hands down a better utilization. No doubt this would be revolutionary! Not only could it be utilized on roadtrips, but it could also be helpful in any public setting. Let's face it, anytime that you are away from home, you may have to drop a deuce. Hey, for $1.99, you can at least have the choice to do it in a somewhat clean environment.

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On a side note, I've had a bunch of people ask me about the blog, "What happens if someone steals your ideas?" That is exactly what we want to happen. There is no way in hell I am going to sit down and spend countless hours learning how to create an iPhone app that finds clean bathrooms. It would be great but I just don't care about it that much. All of the things we come up with on here would help us in our everyday lives but all we are doing is pitching the idea. We want other people to take these ideas and run with them, because if they succeed then we benefit along with everyone else. We will simply take pleasure in knowing that we were the geniuses that had the idea and that's plenty good for us. And if you feel bad for making money off our ideas, we will obviously take donations.