Room 101: Fred Burdon – Yorkshire Carnegie centre

1. Pay Toilets
It’s pretty much inevitable that after a long journey or while at some tourist attraction nature is going to call and the situation could be urgent. After rushing to find the nearest toilet – not always an easy task – it is far from ideal to find that you’re being held to ransom for 25 pence, in the exact change. If this fee is to maintain the toilets then fair enough, as no one likes going to the toilet in what amounts to a cess pit, but why not add it to the entrance fee rather than get people scrambling around for small change when they’ve got a full bladder. That’s just cruel.
TRP verdict: Full bladder/empty pockets… that can’t be right. You’re in.
2. Lazy Stereotypes
The Football World Cup has really brought this to the forefront with every stereotype about a nation again becoming applicable to their style of football. The eventual winners, Germany, are particularly vulnerable to this. They beat Brazil 7-1 in the semi-final on their way to lifting the trophy with a brilliant display of attacking football – not that you would know it from the commentators. Oh no, it was all to do with organisation and efficiency…the same traits every German team has had since time and immemorial.
TRP verdict:  The same can be said for rugby. French flair? Do me a favour! You’re in.
3. Bed sheets
Yes, they are necessary but there has to be a better way to cover a mattress and a duvet than through bed sheets. Is there a worse feeling than walking into your room, dog tired, and realising that the mattress is bare and you have to go through the tedious task of putting the newly laundered sheets on? At best, you end up doing a slapdash job, and for the next few nights, until you can be bothered to put things right, your duvet is scrunched together down at the bottom of its cover and the bed sheet regularly pings off one corner if you dare to make the slightest movement. The whole process needs a rethink.
TRP verdict: This is (sheet) music to our ears. That’s 3 out of 3.