John Perich: >why do some public restrooms in . . . bookstores require either coins OR free tokens to use?<
Starting with the observation that bookstore customers can be very odd indeed, and adding in what appears to be an observed propensity no less than average to do weird things in (semi-)private, the bookstore manager may figure that the chances of someone's secreting books on his person, or shooting up, etc., are diminished by the extra bother of paying, and in particular by having to present oneself, in a visible (hence, potentially memorable) way, to a store employee even to get into the place where one intends to do weird things. (I managed bookstores, including one very large one, for three years. And, I hardly need add, hang out in them even now, decades later.) Michael
