Now we have all used public bathrooms before. And we have all used HORRIBLE public bathrooms. So imagine the most filthy bathroom you have ever been in. Where you maneuvered in such a way that you didn't have to touch anything and you considered throwing your shoes away when you left.
Now take it down a couple of notches. Remove the toilet. Replace it with a hole in the ground and some foot pedals designed to help you "squat" a little better. Remove toilet paper, toilet paper holders, and anything that might provide some decency. And then add a spout and a bucket. Honestly, I'm not quite sure what the bucket was for. I could only figure that it served to "clean up". At least that is what I tried to use it for.
At this point, I am standing in the stall and wondering if this is actually the lowest point in my life. I am really regretting drinking the 1.5 liters of water. Boy, what I wouldn't give. Thankfully, I had a small pack of tissues from the airplane. It had two tissues in it - each about the size of a square of toilet paper. This is my saving grace. But too add salt to my wounds, about a minute or two into this whole affair, women start pounding on the door yelling at me to get out.
And all the while, I keep thinking "and I PAID to use this?!" I can't possibly imagine what the FREE toilets look like. I probably cannot do this justice in describing the horrible scene. But it took me several hours to recover. I refused to eat anything, touch anything, or otherwise spread these horrible germs around until I returned to my hotel that evening.
I returned to Tomax today and told one of the Indian women that works in our SLC office about using a "pay-to-use" bathroom. She gasped and said "no! no you didn't!". She said it all.
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