Adventures with WCs

No, WCs are not some strange viral condition you get when you visit Europe. WCs are short for water closets or toilette.

Toilets, I thought I knew how to use one. I've been potty trained for several years now but aparently I was very wrong.

Meet the French toilet. Many have a dual flush system. One button for pee, one button for poo. One has a small flush, the other a bigger flush. Okay, I can follow that.

But wait, some toilets you have to pay for to use, either through handing someone a .40 cent coin or through inserting a coin into a coin box.

Perhaps the flushing mechanism is on the wall above the toilet, an auto flusher, a chain over the toilet or on the top of the toilet.

Every freaking time I had to use the bathroom (restroom for you Midwesterners), I spent more time trying to figure out how to flush the damn toilet!

In the era of H1N1 flu, I thought it extra important to make sure also I washed my hands extra thoroughly and more often. That was another adventure. Some taps had the standards taps, others had the automatic taps while still others had a foot pump on the floor!

I was left trying to do simple tasks that required Sherlock Holmes to figure out. Needless to say, I didn't drink as much water as usual and I used my hand sanitizer more often to save trips to the Lou.