Bathroom from hell
Cargo Master
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From: TX
Ship boy- What you just described are the bathrooms here on our FOB. They took a connex and modified it. The showers all overflow, so water is all over the floor. ALL of the toilet seat bolts (plastic) are busted. We fold up paper towels and stick under the seat to give it some traction, well we do that for the ones that actually have seats left. The toilets are often over flowing as well...
The way the Afghanis here do their business is to spread feet and squat over a hole. After the hole is filled they cover it and dig another. At least this is the way it's been at the compounds out in the middle of no-where are done.
We were at another FOB once and had a few surprises. Since the locals are customed to squating, they try and do the same thing in porta-johns...well I've walked into a few and seen that they missed...
At least we dont have to burn our "left overs" like they mainly did when the war first started. Only had to do that once or twice...interesting smell.
It could always be worse though!
The way the Afghanis here do their business is to spread feet and squat over a hole. After the hole is filled they cover it and dig another. At least this is the way it's been at the compounds out in the middle of no-where are done.
We were at another FOB once and had a few surprises. Since the locals are customed to squating, they try and do the same thing in porta-johns...well I've walked into a few and seen that they missed...
At least we dont have to burn our "left overs" like they mainly did when the war first started. Only had to do that once or twice...interesting smell.
It could always be worse though!
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Joined: Jul 2007
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From: Lawrenceburg, TN
Whats with the sinks in the wally world bathrooms. After encountering a situation like the one above hand washing is a must. They make it almost impossible with those motion activated sinks that require you to activate the water with one had while you attempt to rinse the other one with the three little sprinkles that trickle out. The sensors that turn the water on are not in the right place so that you can hold your hands under the drips of water and activate the thing at the same time. Its like this at all of the walmarts ive been to in this area.
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From: The Big, Oregon
What's really fun is when the paper dispenser is at knee height, but so close you have no choice but to hit it to sit halfway square on the can, and then can't give yourself access to wipe-
Logistics Pro
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From: Southern MD
At least he didn't say that he had no TP and had to wait until another shopper came in with change for a $5.00 bill, so that he could wipe!
Talk about 'hard times'. . . . . . and inflation . . .
Talk about 'hard times'. . . . . . and inflation . . .
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From: North Carolina
I cant believe some contractor that built the bathroom would be so stupid as to not know where to mount the tissue dispensor. I think they do it on purpose. Next time it would better just to take a(censored) in the friggin parking lot.
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From: Virginia Beach
Stalls on our navy ships are built for very short, narrow people, too. My shoulders usually touched both sides of the stall. They were smart about one thing, though. They ran a cable across the top of the stalls and would string several rolls of TP on the cable. The thing I liked to do was when someone I wanted to mess with was doing #2, I would reach over and slide all the rolls out of their reach...
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Monkeys in the zoo do a better job of controlling their various discharges than male Eagles fans.
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