Monetizing your puny bladder

This just in, similar to how you used to have to carry around an "emergency quarter" in case you needed to make a phone call?  For the younger ones in the crowd, there used to be these things called "phone booths", which were helpful to have scattered about cities and other areas because there were no "cell phones".  If you needed to make a call, you had to use the same one that hundreds or thousands of other people had already used.  If it sounds barbaric and nasty, it was. 

Anyway, at least Europe is keeping this tradition alive with the "pay for peeing" program.  You shall not pass!

The picture below was from a pretty modern version of these - it used to be that some person would be hanging out in there ("stage fright", anyone?) and you would have to pay to get in . 

I ran into a hybrid of these models, where it had the mechanized, cold efficiency of the model below, COMBINED with the terrifying human element of an old woman who will kick your ass if you try to get past without paying.  I saw her ruthlessly turn back a guy who was all but begging her for entrance.  Before I noticed what was going on though, she had dispatched with him and I didn't get a chance to help a brutha out. 

It's a cold, dead heart that sends a grown man out to piss himself in a busy public square.

No money?  Looks like you'll be peeing in your pants today!