Instruction sheet revisited

If you read the post  Lets Make a Deal - Japanese Style you noticed an instruction sheet that I included as one of the pictures, I just thought I needed to point out one of the instructions, just in case you may have missed it.

Normally when you come across a sign that tells you not to do something it is referring to a pretty common behavior. For example you may see this sign:

This sign is telling people not to smoke as smoking is a fairly common thing for many people and without the sign people would continue to smoke in that place.
This is also true for parking:
 
Without this sign people would continue about normally and park in this location as driving a car and parking are normal behaviors.
This also holds true for other normal behaviors that aren't allowed at certain times like, no flash photography, no food or drink, no skateboards, no diving, etc...

With keeping that in mind, that there needs to be signs to help people refrain from certain behaviors that otherwise would be normal, lets take a look back at the instruction sheet for how to use a Western style toilet.
Please direct your attention to the lower right hand box:

Um.........?
Yes, please refrain from getting into a 4 point poochie pose and relieving yourself like Fido would. Thank you.

If I ever were to walk into a bathroom and see something that resembled this I think I don't think I would be able to go anywhere for the next 5 minutes. I would be rolling around on the ground, like something got me, as my stomach would be cramping from laughing so hard.

Actually....now that I think about it I understand why this is on the instruction sheet. The guy obviously forgot to lower his trousers as the sign doesn't say anything about that and is going to wet them. Good thing this saved him and he can continue on and go back to business as usual.

Lets make a deal - Japanese Style

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: