Sometimes I like to go in the bathrooms at Elliott Bay Book Company even if I don’t have to use the toilet. Designed like a model showroom in a Pottery Barn catalogue, the three huge restrooms at the back of the store’s cafe are absolutely immaculate. You’ve got the clean toilet, sure, but also so much more. While you do your business, you can turn to your right and doodle on the massive chalkboard on the wall. Pick one of the many colors of chalk available and scribble whatever literary poop joke you can think of. Maybe To Kill a Mockingturd. Or the Charles Dickens classic A Tale of Two Shitties. And we can’t forget Thomas Hardy’s raunchy Tess of the d’Poopervilles. If you are having trouble thinking of something quippy to write, invite a friend! There are little chairs and benches in there too, so your bookish pals can join you. Too cramped downstairs for the reading going on? Host your own reading in the bathroom! There’s plenty of room.