Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Privacy, please?

No one ever really wants to use a public bathroom, let alone go number 2 in one. But when you do use one, and inevitably, we all have to, you would expect to get some semblance of privacy. Well, that's the US way of thinking. You get almost none in Taiwan in the public restrooms, with cleaning ladies cleaning the urinal next to you when you're doing your business or mopping the floor and getting some splash on you. I figured that was just in public, but oh no, it's the same at companies as well. Regardless of what's going on, those cleaning ladies barge in and start cleaning away. It's like the US Postal service slogan, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" but for cleaning ladies. I half expected them to knock on the bathroom door to offer me an industrial roll of toilet paper. They do it to the girls room as well, but at least they are the same sex. Although I'm pretty sure that a male cleaner would get hit or slapped if he went in to the women's room to try and clean it if a girl was in there.

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