[Augustine23646]

I had never thought of legs showing under a toilet stall, but I will from now on, I assure you. Some reflections on differences in toilet “procedures” from country to country:

(1) European toilets indeed have less water in the bowl. The bowl is a small indentation near the top of the tank with a shallow pool, so that when the toilet is flushed, water flows into the pool and takes the waste with it. The first time one ever sees this… (2) European toilet paper is rougher than its U.S. counterpart, and in the former East Bloc its consistency more resembles a brown paper bag. I found when I was over there that only wetting it down thoroughly with water made it fit to use. When I returned to the U.S., voila, I discovered I had to wet our domestic TP for “No. 2” or else I could not feel clean. I do that to this very day. (3) Why do toilets in high schools not have doors? In an older high school I attended, the toilets in the gym had no dividers whatsoever, and elsewhere, the toilets had dividers that came up only waist-level. I will spare the reader the potential gross visual effect. Yet one more way American secondary education is demeaning and at times even sociopathological.

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Name : Augustine23646, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 38, City : Columbia, State : SC, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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