Are you eating right now or about to eat? Please stop right now and read this later.
Marie and I are in Santiago, Chile for the wedding of Rob and Chelsey. This is our first trip to Chile. However, we have been to Honduras, and we have found that they have a number of things in common – for example, how one uses the bathroom.
One does not flush toilet paper here. After being used, it is placed in a wastebasket near the toilet. Apparently, the plumbing cannot handle the paper.
This is made more interesting here due to the nature of our lodging. The B&B that Rob rented for the wedding has shared bathrooms. That wastebasket is shared by people in multiple rooms.
So, rule #1: Don’t flush the toilet paper.
That is really the only rule. However, it seems to me that there are other things one can do, especially in a shared room situation to make this situation more pleasant – or, at least, less unpleasant. Therefore, I have come up with some additional rules.
Rule #2: Before leaving the bathroom, put some clean toilet paper on top of the pile of used toilet paper. (This is especially important for wastebaskets without a lid.) The reason for this rule should be self-explanatory.
Rule #3: Leave orange peels in the wastebasket. This was Marie’s idea. The smell of the orange peels is naturally pleasant. Is this a useful addition to the wastebasket, you ask? I do not know. Marie only mentioned this an hour ago, and I just finished an orange. I’ll have to get back to you on that. OK, …perhaps not. I think I am done talking about this now, gentle reader, and do not feel the need to revisit this topic. However, if you do, please feel free to leave comments and suggestions below.
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