“Cesspool” – it’s an unpleasant word to describe unpleasant things. It’s often used as a pejorative, describing awful places like the swamp of Washington D.C. or the 5 block radius in the Bronx around Yankee Stadium. At best, it’s a technical term related to waste storage under the ground.
With definitions like that, it’s not something one would expect to find in the name of a business. And yet?
It’s like someone fed all the words related to toilets into a computer, and then had it to come up with the most unappealing possible name. Hell, it’s not even accurate – the waste isn’t stored underground. Honestly, when I saw it, I nearly pissed myself laughing. Fortunately, it’s a toilet, so pants catastrophe averted.
Thanks to Mr. Cesspool, I can also answer the question which has gone unanswered lo these many years: “Do people give you strange looks when you take a picture of a porta-jon?”.
Yes. Yes they do.
