A Song of Water and Porcelain

Here's a fun fact: you'll spend about 1.5 years of your life in the restroom.

That is, if you even have one. The numbers provided by The World Toilet Organization (which is an actual thing) suggest that lack of access to plumbing - and therefore toilets - is a serious global issue. Worldwide, more people have access to cell phones than toilets.

Meanwhile, locally, we don't face the "cell phone or toilet" paradox. This is because we are all considered rich (in global terms); even our $30,000 per year households are statistically among the global one percent.

Despite these advantages, in a sprawling metropolis like Atlanta it's easy to find ourselves doing the bouncy dance in unfit surroundings, or to settle for less than our one-percent (and beyond!) lifestyle demands.

After all, there are only two rules of power and wealth:

The first rule? Only the finest restrooms.