Alec and I went for an hour long elephant ride. This was thoroughly badass. Impressively, the elephants smelled no worse than, say, cows, and were much more fun to ride.
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Thai toilets (again)
One other thing about Thai toilets: they have small doors. Initially, I thought this was a fluke, a unique characteristic of the cheap room I was in. But after visiting Alec’s place (which, by the way, is basically a garage…), his friend’s house, and a new room, I realize that nearly *all* Thai restroom doors are tiny. I have no idea why, all the other doors seem perfectly normal (well, except for the doorknobs, but that’s another thing entirely).
Thai Toilets
Pit toilets are old news. I broke myself in on those within my first hour on the ground in Japan. They`re quite easy to use, provided you have reasonably good balance. Thai toilets, however, are a whole new adventure.
As you probably realize, toilet paper is used very rarely outside the Western world. In fact, it wasn`t even common in America until the advent of the ubiquitous Sears catalog.
Thai toilets feature what appears to be a vegetable washer hanging next to them, not unlike what you might see as extending from your kitchen sink. This, as Geoffe the expat phrased it, is a `bum gun`. Like most Thai water, this is unheated, which — again as Geoffe put it — is `rather bracing`.
Ostensibly, this veggie washer is an ingenious way to achieve levels of post-restroom, intimate cleanliness that you`ve never before experienced. In the unpracticed hands of a Farang tourist, however, it appears to be an excellent way to spray fecal soup across your anatomy, trousers, and perhaps the wall of the restroom that the 7-11 employees kindly allowed use of.
Oops.
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Thai numbers
Last night, Alec taught me how to say the numbers one through seven, ten, and a hundred. So if something costs 1, 5, 13, or 47 baht, I`ll understand. But if it costs 7, 80, or 98 baht, I`ll have absolutely no idea what they`re talking about.
I should probably go see about those other numbers, then…