{"id":6261,"date":"2007-04-20T07:23:24","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T11:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6261"},"modified":"2022-10-12T20:40:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T00:40:10","slug":"welcome-to-the-tribeca-dungeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6261","title":{"rendered":"The Tribeca Dungeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I come down the stairs into the basement area &#8211; and at first glimpse think: Okay.  I am about to be killed by an angry penis-hating butterfly-loving lunatic who orders me to put the lotion in the basket.<\/p>\n<p>One look at this view and I am sure I have only moments to live.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-180532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon2-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon2-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon2-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nI move further into the basement.  Here&#8217;s the corner.  God, doesn&#8217;t it look cozy and inviting??<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-180533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon3-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon3-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon3-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nI turn &#8230; and find what I am looking for.  Although it sort of has a &#8220;GATEWAY TO HELL&#8221; feel to it.  Dare I continue on?<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-180534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nCloser &#8230; through the mirror, the &#8220;ladies room&#8221; glows with the fires of hell.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-180536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon5.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon5-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon5-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon5-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe ceiling of the dark blue hallway.   I&#8217;m being buried under bricks &#8230; or I&#8217;m waiting for a small lonely FBI agent wearing night-goggles to come and save me.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-180537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon8.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon8-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon8-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon8-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I look down the blue hall to where I want to go &#8230; and see a floating roll of toilet paper &#8230; beckoning to me through the gloom.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-180538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon6.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon6-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon6-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon6-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis is what I see, looking up, as I am perched on the ol&#8217; can (actually, I should say as I am <i>hovering over<\/i> the toilet bowl &#8230;).  It&#8217;s so cramped that my knees touch the door.  This is far cry from the Charmin Brou-Haha.  It almost looks like a torture device.  Bricked in, so no one will hear you scream.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-180539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon10.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon10-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon10-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon10-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nI am now fully ensconced in the red glow of the fires of hell &#8230; yet I glance back out &#8230; and can still see the blue cool hallway to freedom &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-180540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon11.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon11-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon11-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon11-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nIt puts the lotion in the basket.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-180541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon12.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon12-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon12-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon12-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nOn my way out, I decide to check out the men&#8217;s room.  To see what kind of ambience they&#8217;ve got going on in there.  This is my first glimpse.<\/p>\n<p><p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-180542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon13.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon13-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon13-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dungeon13-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>\nI hightail it out of there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I come down the stairs into the basement area &#8211; and at first glimpse think: Okay. I am about to be killed by an angry penis-hating butterfly-loving lunatic who orders me to put the lotion in the basket. 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