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Health / Life Mexican Bathroom Etiquette
Posted by Grant Brissey on Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:02 PM
Sign photographed in Tulum, Mexico.
- Grace Hoffman
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1
What's the guy in the bottom center doing? Reading the paper? I'm sad to see "no puking" -- this would NEVER do up the road in Cancun, where puking is obligatory.
2
It took me a while to figure out No Smoking while standing and peeing.
No peeing standing up and no barfing. Why?
No peeing standing up and no barfing. Why?
3
It was reasonable enough until the last one. I never thought anyone would ever try to use a toilet like that. Why would that position even occur to someone? Even if it was someone unfamiliar with western toilets, it does not seem like an honest mistake.
6
pues, gueyes, hay muchos mayas sin "banos" en la casa, o tal vez faltan poder hablar o leer espanol. En este case, usar metodos graficos para comunicar a ellos es inteligente.
Pero hacer bromas de ellos -- por no haber la educacion o las oportunidades igulaes que gostan Uds. los gringos -- eso es muy feo.
Entonces no mames, gringo, calle la boca y sea un poquito mas simpatico.
Joque?
Pero hacer bromas de ellos -- por no haber la educacion o las oportunidades igulaes que gostan Uds. los gringos -- eso es muy feo.
Entonces no mames, gringo, calle la boca y sea un poquito mas simpatico.
Joque?
9
@6, I think pretty much the same reactions would obtain if the sign were spotted in Pike Place Market.
10
@ #2 - Personally, I find it completely disgusting when I walk into a toilet, only to find that some guy stood up pissing, and pissed all over the seat, and didn't bother to wipe it off. Or better yet, if you want to stand, use the urinal.
As my mother used to say, with 4 boys growing up in my house:
"If you sprinkle
when you tinkle,
Be a sweetie
wipe the seaty."
As my mother used to say, with 4 boys growing up in my house:
"If you sprinkle
when you tinkle,
Be a sweetie
wipe the seaty."
14
@ 3, that one's the funniest picture because of what you said. Do people ever try to pee like a dog, and if so, would they ever do it into a toilet?
15
@11 - maybe the signs aren't for Mexicans. Maybe that's why they're pictures instead of words.
I would think the one in the lower left was absurd, except that I have occasionally seen footprints on toilet seats. Apparently some people actually do this. One hopes not with high heels.
I would think the one in the lower left was absurd, except that I have occasionally seen footprints on toilet seats. Apparently some people actually do this. One hopes not with high heels.
16
One more reason I love Mexico:) Feel free to cruise down the street, a ballena in hand with your toddlers bouncing about in the back without seat belts or car seats.. But PLEASE use appropriate restroom etiquette.
18
For #4, #6, and to some extent #2, I'm assuming the only reason people would voluntarily attempt those maneuvers would be if someone had already caused some nastiness that caused them not to want to come in contact with the seat.
20
@15: Standing on the seat might seem sensible to someone who was used to the squatting sort of toilet.
The sad thing is my immediate reaction was to want to attempt each of these maneuvers to try to figure them out...
The sad thing is my immediate reaction was to want to attempt each of these maneuvers to try to figure them out...
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