Lou Decruss wrote:

> Sounds like a truck stop. Real classy. I did once see a couple come
> into a laundromat and strip down to their undies and wash the clothes
> they had on. IIRC they went into the rest room for a long time most
> likely for a whore bath.

Oh lord, I thought that phrase was something my grandma made up. She
and my grandpa had a log cabin in the woods down by the Meramec river.
Water had to be pumped by hand from the well, so you took your baths in
the river when it was warm enough, and took a "whore bath" with a basin
of water in the winter. "Puss (meaning face), pits and pubes".

Kind of an odd choice of phrase to use with your little granddaughters,
come to think of it, although I wasn't bothered by it until somebody
told me what a whore was.