OT: Visiting The Loo & Other Fine Tales

I'm enjoying the Loo Tales. Please climb in if there's a fun one from your travels. I confess to being the one Tia Mary is cautioning to stay home. I like ice, familiar food, my own facilities, and tissue with aloe. It's probably a good thing that we don't travel much, there are very few places with acceptable accomodations for gators. Polly

Don't have to go to Turkey for those! Best advice: wear loose skirts. Roberta in D

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I dunno Polly -- after you got to deal with Katrina and her siblings, a trip to anywhere in Europe or Japan would be a piece of pie for you. I won't say a piece of cake -- that's tooooo easy -- LOL! I think the only real problem would be the food but hey -- just about anything is better than MREs! If you stay in Germany, Austria, likely even The Netherlands, you'd likely do OK with the food. Lots of stuff like sausage or schnitzel dishes in that area and potatoes too. We won't even talk about the desserts -- TO DIE FOR. If you could live on dessert and coffee tea or cocoa, you'd have it made in the shade. Even the TP in those countries is OK -- maybe not aloe soft but acceptable :-))). CiaoMeow >^::^<

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I hear the kvetching from New Yorkers all the time down here in Florida. They keep comparing Florida to New York and how backward we are! LOL - I guess you don't have to leave the country to get people to complain. I know people who periodically travel back to NYC just to bring back stuff they feel they can't live without.

We had a friend who had a collection of toilet paper from all over the world. Some he collected himself, others were given to him by friends who knew of his collection. He had them in a binder with protective pockets, and he did public speaking with them that was hilarious. Sadly, he has passed on now.

I am one of those that is better with staying close to home. I did go to Paris with my DD's French teacher's group in 1995. At one stop I could see the man's legs and dropped pants below the door, at another I had to walk past a man using a urinal to get to a stall. And I didn't like having to using a coin to get into others like in a restaurant. That is the only time I've been overseas as since I was about 3 yo. I have had no desire. But now I am planning a trip to the Netherlands to visit my DD who is studying abroad. She hasn't complained to me (and she is a priss) but maybe she is just keeping me in the dark. They have been to Barcelona and Praha and on a "Dicsover Holland" tour. I want her to go with me to Austria. Later they plan to go to Italy and Greece. This summer she went to Oxford, Brighton, Paris and Amsterdam and loved them all. But she also loves NY and I thought one 3 day visit was enough for me. I love Hawaii!

Page wouldn't load! Try again later! There used to be a unisex loo in a Brussels restaurant with transparent doors. The trick was to turn the door lock twice! Then the door would become opaque. Spooky!But only people who troubled to read the fine print in the restaurant guide would know. Probably saved them a lot of cleaning -everybody would wait until they were home to use the facilities :-) Roberta in D

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So Polly, I double dare you to come over and try my TP! Shoot, I'll go all out and put a tray of ice cubes in the freezer :-) Roberta in D

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Found this by accident a while back and never forgot it LOL!

Allison

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That would take a lot of courage - or an overwhelming need to pee.

On my very first trip to Europe to visit Brigitte and deliver her {{{HUG}}}, she went out and bought bottled water and made ice cubes for me! She even bought an extra carton of a wonderful peach juice drink (her DD Marion's favourite drink) that was absolutely divine. She kept one carton in a special spot in the 'fridge just for me so that there would always be some that was cold. Marion had strict instructions NOT to touch Tia Mary's carton -- if she drank all of her cold juice drink and wanted more, she would just have to drink it warm! Two very simple things for Brigitte to remember but they meant so much to me, especially considering her DH had passed away only about 2 months before. CiaoMeow >^;;^<

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Gee, Roberta. I don't know when I've had such a gracious invitation. I 'm pretty sure I'm what you'd call High Maintenance. There's just something about the gentle roar of 8,500 gators that's just so soothing, probably would be tricky to get them past airport security. Polly

There is always an overwhelming need when one goes into a porta-john. I think it's funny. A gussied-up portable toilet that someone wants to call art. Debra in VA See my quilts at

With their mouths properly strapped shut, that shouldn't be much of a problem. But just imagine the thrill of trying to get passports for the critters! Passport Control would just LOVE you and the gatore -- LOL! I wonder wonder what the 'gators would think of Passport Control personnel -- maybe if you had to go through Charles deGaulle in Paris, the 'gators could get a taste of authentic French edibles? Whaddaya think -- might be worth the trip after all?? CiaoMeow >^;;^<

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Well they *are* different to the ones in the UK!

Suzie B

I have a pond! Roberta in D

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And I'm sure you have plenty of tourists for the gators to take out to dinner. We'll be on our way. Polly

Jeez -- I'm afeard she'd have to looking a mite hard to find authentic French edibles in Lizard Land. Then again, I could ask DD -- remember she's a chef and I be willing to be she'd know a few that she could recommend -- LOL! Just think, if you took the 'gators to France, THEY would be the tourists. I would just LOVE to see what the 'gators would do to the locals under those circumstances! I'm sure you would have instructed them in the niceties of being (or not as the case may be) an Ugly American whilst traveling abroad -- RIGHT? HMMM -- have you seen the needlework sampler that says something to the effect of "Do not meddle in the workings of Dragons for Thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup"? We could change that to say something like "Tourists, do not meddle with 'Gators for Thou art crunchy" -- 'gators don't have a need for ketchup, I'm sure :-). CiaoMeow >^;;^<

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Several million came last year for Oktoberfest, which starts in mid-September. In case the gators are especially hungry. Tourists marinated in beer! Roberta in D

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