By Larry Miller Brentwood
This is in response to a printed letter from self-proclaimed community activist Jean McNeil Wyner, published in your June 30 edition (SMDP, page 7).
Ms. Wyner has her panties in a bunch because Barnes & Noble will not extend defecation and/or urination privileges to her via a public restroom on their Promenade store premises.
To this end, she has written you, Barnes & Noble, the Santa Monica City Council, the city manager, the Bayside District Corp. and the chamber of commerce.
And to underscore her rage, Ms. Wyner has vowed to the bookstore front desk personnel that she and her husband “would not be using your bookstore until the doors to their toilets are thrown open to her personal needs.”
Some community activist. I’d say “pain in the...” (well, you know what) would be more accurate. Perhaps her letter-writing time would be better spent by going before she leaves her house. That way, she’d have even more time to shop, since that’s what you do in a bookstore.
At least Ms. Wyner has an appropriate last name, albeit misspelled.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 3, 2004. Read the original PDF.