So... something that should be pointed out. You know how public restrooms are free and come with free toilet paper? Be grateful for that, because in the rest of the world, that's not how it works. There are public restrooms here, as in Russia, but here, also like Russia, they don't come with toilet paper. But it gets better!
Sometimes restrooms are little more than holes in the ground that you have to pay to use. Granted, it's only about 10 baht usually (about 30 cents), but the fact remains that you sometimes only get a bucket of water to pour over your posterior for cleaning purposes. The nicer restrooms feature a hose attached to a real toilet that you use to spray yourself off with. But wait, there's more!
The reason they don't use toilet paper is because some brilliant mastermind designed for Thailand a septic system that can handle human waste, but not tissue paper. So, in some of the nicer restrooms, when you pay, they offer you 4 or 5 squares of toilet paper to dry off with after you hose your waste all over the place. This must then be thrown into the trash, not the toilet, lest you blow up Thailand via septic blast. This, in turn, leads to not very pleasant smelling bathrooms((
In summary, when you use a public restroom, and don't have to pay, and it has toilet paper, and it's an actual toilet... be grateful.
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