In North Carolina, I stopped to gas up at a Humble Oil station, then walked around the corner to use the toilet. There were two doors and three signs. MEN was neatly stenciled over one door, LADIES over the other. The third sign was an arrow on a stick. It pointed toward the brush-covered slope behind the station. It said COLORED. Curious, I walked down the path, being careful to sidle at a couple of points where the oily, green-shading-to-maroon leaves of poison ivy were unmistakable.. There was no facility. What I found at the end of the path was a narrow stream with a board laid across it on a couple of crumbling concrete posts.. If I ever give you the idea that 1958's all Andy-n-Opie, remember the path, okay? The one lined with poison ivy. And the board over the stream. Stephen King
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In 1958, a man named Andy Griffith was a star on the television show “The Andy Griffith Show,” a situation comedy about a small-town sheriff and his family. In one episode, the sheriff takes a detour from the path to use the restroom at Humble Oil Station. He walks down a narrow path that is lined with poison ivy and then over a stream that is covered by a makeshift bridge of boards. The scenario is similar to this one: A man makes an uncomfortable trip to the restroom at a gas station.

There is only one door, with two signs. The men's restroom says MEN on it and there is an arrow pointing to the other side of the building. The sign for the ladies room says LADIES on it and there is another arrow pointing to the other side of the building.

The third sign is an arrow on a stick that points toward the brush-covered slope behind the station. It reads COLORED POISON IVY. Curious, he walks down the path, being careful to sidle at several points where there are unmistakable signs of poison ivy...

There is no facility for women at Humble Oil Station. What he finds at the end of this path is another narrow stream with boards laid across it on two crumbling concrete posts... If I ever give you the idea that this was all Andy Griffith's fault, remember the path, okay? The one lined with poison ivy and then over two streams that can be seen from miles away because they are covered by boards on concrete posts…

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