On Sunday Katynka and I ate at Don Pablo's, a Mexican restaurant in Altoona, PA. It's part of a chain, but I had never been there before.

The food was fine, your standard mass-market Mexican stuff, but the really notable thing was the decor. The eating area was wide open, kind of like they describe on their page, like a village plaza. It also had some touches of diner style and industrial architecture, which sounds like overload but it worked okay.

The only thing that was bad, though, was really bad. The bathroom doors and walls were decorated in this faux-distressed finish in lurid red and dirty-looking black. It was very disturbing. I think it was clean in there, but it looked like it could be really dirty and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Plus, the colors made me think of hell. That can't be a good thing in a restaurant bathroom. Somebody made a really bad mistake.

The funniest thing was, I went in there and noticed it, but didn't say anything to Katynka. Then she went in and thought the exact same thing I did. We both thought it was pretty creepy.