Dear Students,
The plumber came to the building today and fixed leaks and plug ups in a few apartments, and then we were given the good/bad news depending on your point of view. This building (and the huge majority ofbuildings in Jordan), and in fact the whole sewer system here, was simply not designed to handle toilet paper, and using it plugs up the building and the system. We now have two choices:
1. You can stick to your tree-destroying American ways and continue to use toilet paper, but you must not put it into the toilets. Rather,you should get a waste basket, line it with a plastic garbage bag, and deposit your toilet paper there. You can change the basket (and put the old stuff out of your door for [the garbage man] to take away) as often as you like.
2. You can adapt to local custom and learn to use the bidet or the bidet sprayer, depending on how your bathroom is equipped.
Either way, we need to make this adjustment in our culture so that we don't have to have the plumber in the building every other day.
Think of what a great opportunity this is in what it will allow you to tell the folks back home, and particularly what you will be abel to tell your grandkids. You guys are really lucky.
Thanks,
Dil
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Well you do know what they used their left hand for in the middle ages right? ^_^ lol
ReplyDeleteOh man this post just tickled my funny bone!
What have you gone for?
Be a man, use your hand! :D
ReplyDeleteI totally remember having this kind of conversation with the woman who arranged our home-stays. I got into the habit of throwing TP away and not flushing it that I had to remind myself to revert back to it when I got home.
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