[Julie Steiner]

I like the changes (particularly Don't mind your brain!), and the note. (I've never understood why note-haters feel so condescended to by the notion that the author thought they might not know everything. People who don't like notes shouldn't read them.)

I didn't mention it before, but I struggle to see how the parenthetical "like a gas station" is intended to work in its sentence. Who or what is being compared to a gas station? Grammatically, it looks like the narrator, but releasing what one has consumed doesn't seem like something a gas station does. Is the scenario like in the restaurant restroom being compared to one's frame of mind in a gas station restroom, and the relief of finally reaching that blessed destination after a long drive through the boondocks? That seems more likely, but the grammar/syntax is no help.