Lets make a deal Japanese style
Have you ever seen the tv game show, lets make a deal? Well I feel like I was playing it the other day here in Japan. Only the way I was playing it was a little bit different than the game show. This has actually happened a number of times.
This post will tie into the other post title - Japanese Duece Bucket (http://katyandjoey.blogspot.jp/2013/02/deuce-bucket.html)
So I walked into the bathroom and needed a place to...."rest" so I came to the first door. I felt like the game show host was like, lets see what we have behind door number 1
You can see from the picture this isn't really what I was hoping for at all. This is a Japanese style toilet and basically every public bathroom area has them (maybe a lot of people have them in their houses I don't know). I try to go to the weight room if I want to do squats and don't really care
to do it in this venue. (People's legs must be pretty strong here)
So the game show host in my head moved on to the next door....lets see
what we have behind door number 2.
Same deal.
Now I was starting to get a little nervous as this time practice was going to start in 15 minutes or so and I am not sure where else I would be able to run to get the task at hand completed.
So, I traded in what was behind door number 2 for the last door, door number 3....And, walla! I found what I was looking for. A regular toilet.
Here when you stop at a rest area there are pictures outside the stalls that show what lays in waiting for you behind the door and will say whether it is a Japanese style toilet or if it is an western-style toilet. I have been fortunate enough to have always been able to find the western-style (knock-on-wood) and hope to not find myself faced with the prospect of what was behind door number 1 or 2.
The saying goes....when in Rome - but I think if I can find a place to sit
and avoid the deep squats all together I will be winning.
I'm not sure when the Western style toilet was introduced, but I found this
"instruction sheet" quite interesting.
And if you are wondering how to use a Japanese-style toilet here you go:
Have you ever seen the tv game show, lets make a deal? Well I feel like I was playing it the other day here in Japan. Only the way I was playing it was a little bit different than the game show. This has actually happened a number of times.
This post will tie into the other post title - Japanese Duece Bucket (http://katyandjoey.blogspot.jp/2013/02/deuce-bucket.html)
So I walked into the bathroom and needed a place to...."rest" so I came to the first door. I felt like the game show host was like, lets see what we have behind door number 1
You can see from the picture this isn't really what I was hoping for at all. This is a Japanese style toilet and basically every public bathroom area has them (maybe a lot of people have them in their houses I don't know). I try to go to the weight room if I want to do squats and don't really care
to do it in this venue. (People's legs must be pretty strong here)
So the game show host in my head moved on to the next door....lets see
what we have behind door number 2.
Same deal.
Now I was starting to get a little nervous as this time practice was going to start in 15 minutes or so and I am not sure where else I would be able to run to get the task at hand completed.
So, I traded in what was behind door number 2 for the last door, door number 3....And, walla! I found what I was looking for. A regular toilet.
Here when you stop at a rest area there are pictures outside the stalls that show what lays in waiting for you behind the door and will say whether it is a Japanese style toilet or if it is an western-style toilet. I have been fortunate enough to have always been able to find the western-style (knock-on-wood) and hope to not find myself faced with the prospect of what was behind door number 1 or 2.
The saying goes....when in Rome - but I think if I can find a place to sit
and avoid the deep squats all together I will be winning.
I'm not sure when the Western style toilet was introduced, but I found this
"instruction sheet" quite interesting.
And if you are wondering how to use a Japanese-style toilet here you go:
OMG. I love the directions for the western style toilets. Thanks for posting Joey, makes me more appreciative of our "rest" areas.
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