Article: Gimme a break - a stop at Oak Grove.(Travel)(How does the freeway system spell relief? With a clean, pleasant, basic roadside rest area)

Byline: Best of ... by The Register-Guard

According to Restrooms .org - a Web site that offers such helpful articles as "A Woman's Guide on How to Pee Standing" - 7 percent of the American public may suffer from a fear of using public restrooms.

It's called paruresis, or "bashful bladder syndrome," and it isn't a problem here at Team Best of. We love public restrooms, particularly highway rest areas, which have the unique quality of being equally attractive and repulsive.

How's that?

The sight of a blue rest stop sign can spell relief when you're feeling the effects of that Big Slam of Mountain Dew you drank between mileposts 166 and ...

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