Kala wrote and added one more quick chapter to the story of the "California girls" as she called the finicky short term helpers. She relates that one of the gals noticed the sign requesting that all toilet paper be put in the trash can by the toilet instead of being flushed. This lady had already griped because the paper was beige ("eww!") instead of white. When Kala explained that Guatemalan toilet paper was not white because it was recycled (which of course it was, but not from the waste basket stuff!) the visitor assumed the worst and nearly had a fit.
My international friends will appreciate this since toilet paper cannot be flushed in many third world countries. I could tell other "TP" stories that involve the reverse: training my own children to please flush the used toilet paper when in the U.S. People used to wonder why on earth I was whispering to my daughters in the other bathroom stalls to put the toilet paper IN the commode. "Where else would they put it?" they must have thought. My own prim and proper mother used to be horrified to find that my children had forgotten the new rule in her house. Ick. Enough said.
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2 comments:
Yep - that's exactly what we have to do with our kids on 'that' side of the border. "YES dearie - it goes IN."
Perhaps I'm priming my dc for live in the "M" field. Seeing as our septic system is out of whack, and has been for a while, and $$ to replace it has not been dropped in our laps, lol. One of our dd's still forgets when we're not home to flush the paper. :D
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