As the holiday season is upon us, many will be travelling to various parts of the Mediterranean. The sewerage infrastructure in some countries differs from the UK and so there's plenty of signage in the toilets of bars, apartments and hotels requesting users to place used tissue in the bin provided to reduce the risk of blockages.
I guess most people are happy to comply with the request, and a lot of the time you're just glad that you made it to the toilet in time. This is where the fun starts. You've number two'ed for England and start to take advantage of the handy roll of loo paper nearby. With your now pre-loved tissue in hand you go to drop it in the small shiny pedal bin not so handily located in the farthest corner of the toilet/bathroom. After a great death of shuffling with trousers and underwear round you ankles and the previously mentioned pre-loved tissue, you make it to the pedal bin.
Bizarrely, small metal pedal bins found in holiday destination toilets have an opening trigger force of between 50 and 100lbs of foot pressure before the lid starts to rise, by which time it's too late to stop it opening upwards causing a small sonic boom and then a crash like the Rank Organisation film intro gong as it slams into the toilet wall. You may even have to do the shuffle a second time depending on circumstances.
On exiting the toilet as nonchalantly as possible, you realize the whole bar, hotel, apartment complex and local district know that you've just done the poo dance.
Thanks for reading.
I guess most people are happy to comply with the request, and a lot of the time you're just glad that you made it to the toilet in time. This is where the fun starts. You've number two'ed for England and start to take advantage of the handy roll of loo paper nearby. With your now pre-loved tissue in hand you go to drop it in the small shiny pedal bin not so handily located in the farthest corner of the toilet/bathroom. After a great death of shuffling with trousers and underwear round you ankles and the previously mentioned pre-loved tissue, you make it to the pedal bin.
Bizarrely, small metal pedal bins found in holiday destination toilets have an opening trigger force of between 50 and 100lbs of foot pressure before the lid starts to rise, by which time it's too late to stop it opening upwards causing a small sonic boom and then a crash like the Rank Organisation film intro gong as it slams into the toilet wall. You may even have to do the shuffle a second time depending on circumstances.
On exiting the toilet as nonchalantly as possible, you realize the whole bar, hotel, apartment complex and local district know that you've just done the poo dance.
Thanks for reading.
