A port-a-potty for your car? Only in America!

Walt has lived and worked on four continents, in two worlds (first and third), and... let's see... a number of countries. But nowhere have I met folks more squeamish about relieving themselves outside of a "bathroom" than in the Excited States of America.

Americans, especially of the fairer sex -- is it still OK to say that? -- seem to have a terrible phobia about being "caught short" (as the Brits say) and having to resort to bushes, carparks or dark alleys. That's why you will find "rest areas" every 40 miles or so on the Interstate super-highways -- often in the middle of nowhere [meaning Nebraska. Ed.] -- complete with flush euphemisms.

But what if you can't make it to the rest area? What if you're stuck in a traffic jam? If you pull over and go behind the car door, someone might see... well, need I go on?

But never fear! Relief is at hand! [Where are we going with this? Ed.] American ingenuity wins the day! Dr. James Kolter, a gynecologist, has invented the GoPilot!

According to the website, this handy device:

• will enable a traveller to discreetly urinate within the privacy of a stationary vehicle;



• may help prevent physical discomfort and repeated stops at rest areas to use public "bathrooms";



• can be discreetly used by anyone in a motor vehicle.

Well, this is getting a bit repetitious. Let's hear the pitch from the mouth of the good doctor himself.



Isn't America wonderful?

PS - If you're ordering, please don't tell them Walt sent you. This article is posted as a public convenience.