Oh, a post just for me! And on my favourite holiday, World Toilet Day.
I'll think of you later Anna, as we celebrate with the traditional unwrapping of the toilet paper, and the giving of urinal cakes. Yay World Toilet Day!
I always get nervous walking into the toilets in foreign countries. You never know what it's going to look like. Sometimes it's a normal bowl, other times it's a porcelain trench you have to squat over, and sometimes it sprays you in the butt if you push the wrong button.
@GirlFailer: For me its the whether or not you can flush paper down question that gets me. And then trying to explain to other Americans that it is their fault their toilet keeps overflowing, once you realize the answer is no.
@Kivrin: They didn't have it in Okinawa in a lot of places, too. They sell these little rolls of charmin, and I carried them with me. I'm not a fan of the drip dry method.
@Lymed: Yeah, sometimes I wonder if it's common in certain countries to not poo in public. It would make sense with the lack of TP, and the easily overflowing toilets. #tips
@Kivrin: Toilet paper is not the scary part; you carry a small packet with you. The scary part is squatting over a little trench with NO DIVIDERS and fifty older women squatting/watching you. (This was in Beijing at a tourist restroom, and they're not all like that.)
@shorty63136: I was just gonna say the same thing. That would suck if you *really* had to go. Poor lady is gonna need a step stool (no pun intended....okay maybe. ) to get into that thing. Get it? Stool? Ok, whatever.
I have never understood how it could be legal to drive with a dog loose in the front seat of your car. And people who drive with their dogs in their laps make me positively stabby.
@MizJenkins: You know what, I agree. Only because I learned first hand what can go wrong when dogs ride in front seats. I used to let my large dog ride in the passenger seat and one day he bumped my window button, and it rolled down automatically. He jumped out while I was driving about 50 miles an hour. Luckily he was okay, he just had some scrapes and a skinned butthole, but I learned that I was a fucking idiot who expected my dog to be safe in the front seat. I tell everyone this now, in hopes that it won't happen to anyone else. It was traumatic for both me and my dog. What started out as a fun trip for us ended up scarring both of us for life.
Seriously, the guilt I feel about this is never ending. I REALLY encourage people to rethink allowing dogs to ride anywhere in the car unrestrained.
@GirlFailer: Yeah, if it's illegal for kids to ride unbuckled, then the same rule should apply to dogs. (And I'm now promising never to let my little pup ride without buckling her in! Used to be good about it, but I get lazy sometimes.)
Still, I'd be a lot more concerned about this woman in the photo if she had a cell phone attached to her ear, like 90% of the drivers I see on the road every day. THOSE people make me stabby.
@MizJenkins: Seriously! My dog has to stay in the backseat (he prefers it back there anyway), because he's large and bumbling, and the one time I let him into the front seat he managed to knock my car into neutral while I was on the highway. After I recovered from my heart attack, I pulled over and shooed him into the backseat, where he happily stays.
"consumer spending...rose 15.2 percent in July 2009 compared with the same month in 2010."
dude, china already knows the figures for the future! the way forward indeed.
@dianersb was bit by a zombie: but you're already too late! it's on the way down from here. better see if you can get someone on the phone about Q1 in '11.
Hmm, I just miss my high school music competitions... The only time I felt I could get away with yoga pants, tshirt, and pillow was when we'd be on a bus for four hours. That, and if it was too cold, you could still wear your pajama pants under your uniform (floor length dresses) and no one would know.
Can we work on a crackdown of publicly wearing curlers? And I don't mean, you just came from the beauty shop and needed something from your car. I mean, you're out at the mall in curlers and house slippers. So angering.
Until last September, I would not have been caught dead wearing pajamas in public. Then came Hurricane Ike and the near total destruction of my neighborhood. I wore pajamas in public fairly often after that, because I just didn't give a shit about anything anymore.
A former colleague of mine wore pjs to work often. In a law office. She got fired pretty quickly. I guess clients found it hard to trust an attorney wearing fuzzy Winnie the Pooh pants.
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On second thought, I don't want to know.
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I'll think of you later Anna, as we celebrate with the traditional unwrapping of the toilet paper, and the giving of urinal cakes. Yay World Toilet Day!
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Never mind, there's always Bidet Day!
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#tips
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Also, for ladies (in pink, of course)
For every Queen, there's a throne!
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Seriously, the guilt I feel about this is never ending. I REALLY encourage people to rethink allowing dogs to ride anywhere in the car unrestrained.
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Still, I'd be a lot more concerned about this woman in the photo if she had a cell phone attached to her ear, like 90% of the drivers I see on the road every day. THOSE people make me stabby.
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dude, china already knows the figures for the future! the way forward indeed.
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"Doña, I don't care if you have Misa afterward, just take those curlers out and put a pañuelo for chrissake!
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Just in case they're readin'.