Worst Toilet Experience

I keep getting notifications that the toilet thread goes on and on, how can I stopped it, I gave my small contribute already for experience sake, now I start getting sick, please flush the water once for all!

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Walking from Darjiling to the Tibetan self-help whatever, I felt a pressure to empty my bladder. There were no convenient walls around. Before a real crisis emerged, I encountered some kind of wayside shops cum conveniences site. The cubicle doors of course had no locking devices, but thinking that anyone happening to open the door would be in more of a shock than me, I entered. Being prepared for the worst, I had no major problem, but I wouldn't want anyone to have that place as their first not-quite-like-home experience.

A not too dissimilar experience was some 40 years ago at a German camping site. The flush toilets didn't work, but had of course to be used. At least, the floor was fairly clean there.

georgt:
as can sometimes be the case with non-native speakers on an english-language website, i'm having trouble understanding the point of your post. do you want the thread closed? (no, we won't do that) or do you want to stop receiving notifications of new posts in this thread? if so, you have control over that. go to your "user cp" and, where your subscriptions are listed, you can delete any in which you are no longer interested.

If you are male, then you are free to have a "no toilet" experience:

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In knocking around a good portion of the world, including Africa and South America, I have to say that the public display of excretory and urinary functions is unique to South Asia.

Central Trains, UK -- blocked toilet with urine all over the floor. As bad as any Indian train toilet I'd ever seen (and I've travelled unreserved) but with no excuses.

I have seen women availing themselves of a similar 'experience'!

Try Paris!

Sorry georgt, I want to share my toilet-experience too

Two months ago I was in Nepal, invited to a traditional Nepalese wedding in a village without electricity, running water and of course no toilet facilities.
I was worried beforehand and tried to be prepared for the worst, because I knew we would stay there for one whole week. (I even practised at home )

The private toilet was a simple hole in the field, surrounded by some planks (with hugh spaces in between) and some small tree-trunks around to put your feet on. If you are not able to keep good balance you are in deep sh*t

Anyway, I managed to do my thing when nature called, that is, on the days before the wedding. On the wedding day itself there were more than 150 guests, who all had to use the same toilet!! (Can you imagine the crowd!) By the end of the day the place was one big stinking S**thole
My husband and the father of the bride "cleaned" it for me, with hot water, banana leaves, and sand, and made it acceptable to use again.
But sometimes, in a bad dream, the smell and sight still overwhelm me

Definitely POTALA toilet in Lhasa, worse than in Dheli train Station. Anybody tried it?

Georgt, I'm afraid it is your karma to be trapped in this thread now.

Must be because of your reaction to people crapping on the railway line!

That reminds me of a trip on British Airways (small propeller 'plane) from Southampton to Newcastle. They had forgotten to empty the can, and when I went to use it I found it was overflowing (not just urine either). Nice - the stewardess locked it, thankfully.

no one told me about the pigs on Anjuna, until I FELT one . . . . 36 years later, I still remember THE HORROR . . . .

May I interupt the fun and ask the obvious question, which is

WHY???

Why why why do Indians not clean the toilets?

Ok, I can understand a public public toilet which needs to be cleaned by some government employee who found a way to sneak off ... But in the restaurants, airplanes, trains etc? Harpic and brushes are available, disinfectants are, and these little sponges with the green side to scrub - so why? Or rather: why not? Why is the need for cleanliness and fresh smells missing from the Indian idea of an acceptable life? I've always been wondering about it and after many years in India still haven't figured it out. Is it only about costs?

To the one who can satisfyingly answer me this question I will ship a toilet brush!

Well, that's brought us all down to earth! And while we are, I'd add the one that surprises me the most to that list --- In their own homes.

OK, ok, ,I know this is gross generalisation... but I have seen more than enough spotless houses with toilets I just don't want to breathe in...

Anyway, the men's room was in the back in a dark closet-like room that smelled more intense than anything i have smelled in asia. Through the dim light from the other room (had to keep the door open so i could see) I found the "toilet", which was simply a shattered hole in the corner of the concrete floor. It looked like someone built it with a sledgehammer!
After I did my business, I felt like I was ready for the worst toilet that India had to offer. (Coincidentally I had just returned from a six month india trip so to see a makeshift hole-in-the-floor toilet made me feel homesick.