I recalled back in the 1980s, 1984 and it was at the Penn Station rail station. It was myself and my old homie, Derren along with this other kid. We were there in the arcade playing video games; The Pacman games, Centipede, Gallaga, pinball, etc. Tossing them quarters in, we were about to leave the arcade when Derren announced he has used the bathroom, I guess I had to also as in peeing and we left the arcade enroute to the men’s room on the other side of the station on the lower level where Long Island Railroad trains are. Instead, he was going to the nearest men’s room on the lower level, a very large restroom with multi sinks, urinals as you enter and toilets in the rear, where a few of commodes have doors in front, but they don’t latch, 2 toilets inside a booth with no doors. I followed Derren to the rear of the restroom, to where 2 toilets beside the other are. Derren going to one of the toilets, wiping the seat with paper, then lining the seat with strips of paper, taking his pants slightly down sitting on the toilet relieving himself, he teasingly asks if I have to go also on the toilet. We were both in our late teens and I shook my head no as I used one of the three toilets across from where he is sitting, standing in front the bowl pissing. As I was done pissing, Derren was still on the bowl, along with others glancing at him, it looks like a crazy toilet. Finally, he was done shitting, as he rose off the bowl after wiping his ass. I always knew Derren to be somewhat bold and daring back then, I never thought he was that daring, he told me never waited to get home to take a dump when he was in school, like a lot of his schoolmates. I even drop turds in that same restroom. Today that version of that men’s room, no longer exist, which was Amtrak and today another version is on second floor with lots more privacy. Derren, he joined the United States Marines and I haven’t heard him in a while.
