Josh and Yona's Blog of Many Things

Josh started this blog when he was doing disaster recovery work after Hurricane Katrina. Now it is mostly our travel blog.

Monday, December 26, 2011

When You Got to Go

When you have 1 + billion people, you generate a lot of human waste. One way to help concentrate the problem is public urinals. All over the streets of major cities are public urinals, which drain to the gutter and are not much more than a couple of stone partitions to give a modicum of privacy.

Before we realized this, Yona and I were walking on the sidewalk and there was a, well a stone partition parallel with the street, and I went to the left of it and Yona went to the right of it. And next thing she knew, Yona was hanging out with the guys in the urinal.

Also, Yona had another run in with a bathroom. We were in a pretty nice guest house and our room had a private bath as well as the normal assortment of furniture, an armoir, etc. It was dark and the middle of the night and Yona had to pee. She got out of bed and felt for the door to the bathroom and was reaching around on the wall, trying to turn on the light. I woke up because I heard this rubbing and scratching. Confused and not sure if there was an intruder I turned on the light by the bed. There was Yona one hand on the wall and one hand on the door to the armoir. Evidently in her sleepy state she confused one for the other. The good news is that we laughed so hard that the armoir was no longer in danger.

3 Comments:

Blogger Kate and Jordan said...

I wish there was a "like" button for some of you stories and pictures.

10:51 AM  
Anonymous Dorian said...

why didn't Josh end up with the ladies when he was on the other side of the partition from Yona? Or is the partition different from how I imagine? Please keep track of my questions, so you can answer them with appropriate slides when you return (if you ever return. it's been eons).

5:51 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There is no lady's urinal/bathroom. The partition splits the road from the mens urinal. Women don't exist on the street or have bigger bladders.

9:04 PM  

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