Take a trip to India CB and see how hordes of people live. It is obvious that human immune systems are capable of coping with a LOT of bugs. After training of course; best done while very young and being fed with mother's antibody-laden milk to help.
Many "bathrooms" [quaint American word] are open-air, which avoids the need to touch the door handle.
The best bathroom I've ever seen was at The Bridges golf course in Rancho Santa Fe, California. thebridgesrsf.com It was so plush, fancy and beautiful it seemed absurd to be using it for such a foul activity. I doubt that there was even one bug in the place.
Using the toilet was a bit like taking a divot on the beautiful, perfect, manicured grass on the golf course and practise range, which seemed like vandalism.
Thinking of them now, life at The Bridges and life in the slums of Bombay are so far apart, it's surrealistic, which is how I felt driving in a taxi with wife and youngest daughter in the rain at night from Bombay airport to a hotel by Victoria Station, through muddy back "streets", unable to communicate with the driver.
The gap was comparable with the opening scene of 2001 A Space Odyssey. A bloody battle for survival and the ethereal world of Hal.
It's amazing that such differences exist in the human realm.
I wonder how sars will go in the two places.
Mqurice
PS: I flew once first class from London to New Zealand. I don't remember the dunny, but the vodka served in carved ice fascinated me. I suppose the toilet was pretty good. The Swiss motorway toilets are great. Best in the world. Belgian public toilets are clean [a lady hangs out in them ensuring the visitors pay and keeping them clean - blokes get used to being watched doing their business by women in Belgium though it's disconcerting to newcomers]. It's a far cry from the open pit toilets of my youth [camp grounds] where my brother gave me lollies to suck while visiting them, to help overcome the stench.
PS: I hit two balls into the canyon before getting over here: thebridgesrsf.com on the par 4 10th, then doing it in 7, if I remember rightly, [which was fun]. My host suggested we go to an easier tee, but I wanted to succeed, and did. Beginners would find the course impossible. |
