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A modern English public toilet could be an excellent stage for numerous illegal activities — from drug use to fights or even murder. However, the main target of Collins' book is sexual encounters of various kinds, but, logically (it is a men's toilet after all), exclusively those between members of the same sex. This topic certainly offers numerous opportunities for writing very provocative and even quite scandalous book pages, but Collins did not have the slightest intention of describing the possibly intriguing fates or habits of non-heterosexual toilet visitors, but focused primarily on three of his employees. Coincidentally, or more likely not — all three are black immigrants from Jamaica. Faced with daily sexual incidents in the cramped space of the cubicles, manager Reynolds, the somewhat naive and pacifist Ez, and the determined Rastafarian Jason, initially decide on mild educational measures. However, banging on the door or waving a large wooden stick at the legs of the reptiles, as they call them, after a while no longer produces results that would satisfy the morals of the local community. The next step, therefore, is to install a fake video surveillance camera. However, this unpopular move quickly reduces traffic in the toilet, and the halved income is the reason for a new visit from the superiors. The precarious existence of the public institution and its employees is temporarily solved by Jason, who, disappointed in his English black brothers caught in flagrante with the hated white reptiles — goes back to Jamaica. However, this by no means means the final solution to this complex situation.