Mill Mt. Coffee and Tea on Main St. in Salem is the perfect spot to hang out, enjoy a hot beverage and a tasty snack. It's a great place to bring your laptop or textbook or novel and hang out for hours on end. However, if you do so, you will eventually end up needing to use the rest room, and that might be a little unpleasant, at least the women's rest room.

Overall, Mill Mt.'s women's rest room is nice enough; it has two stalls, a counter with two sinks and a mirror plus a full length mirror on the wall. Each stall has a chalk board so you can write reviews or messages or random thoughts. The trash is close enough to the door that you can use a paper towel to open the door, then toss it into the trash with a reasonable chance of getting your two points. And, it doesn't stink.

Those are the pros. The cons are not so great: first, the paper towel dispenser is broken (and seems to have been for a while now), so the big roll of paper towels is just sitting on the counter, and it gets wet--wet from patrons' hands touching it to tear off a towel, and wet from water dripping onto the counter. The biggest con I saw, however, was not the soggy spots on the towels, nor the floor in need of sweeping, but rather the poop on the tank of the toilet. Granted, this was only in one of the stalls, and it was only a few spots, but...EWWWW! Yes, sometimes you just can't control those matters, and I'm not faulting the culprit, but MMCT might want to think about supplying disinfectant wipes in the stalls, in addition to checking the rest rooms a bit more frequently.