Opa Johan’s Suffering
I was warned never to pee on the road side in Australia. When we decided on a far trip from Adelaide to Melbourne in a car I asked whether there were public toilets along the way. “Be assured, there are plenty and they are free.” So someone said.
Could you imagine my agony, horror when after more than an hour, we met almost no homes, no shops, no supermarkets, no public toilets. I saw no man walking on the road, except cows, sheep, horses in the fields and these could pee without fear of being fined or being watched.
You plan to have a nice, comfortable trip and it’s so very offensive to take a pee-pan or an emergency empty aqua bottle and urinate in the car or go out of the car and do it as a thief in a hidden corner, behind a bush. How fine is it in a country as Indonesia, which is not very civilized as European countries. You could pay and pee in a toilet, or just pee somewhere in the open behind a tree or hide yourself in a corner for free if you want to. No one would be offended.
“Never lose your wits I say. What do you think?” So said Opa Johan to his wife.
January 2010
I was warned never to pee on the road side in Australia. When we decided on a far trip from Adelaide to Melbourne in a car I asked whether there were public toilets along the way. “Be assured, there are plenty and they are free.” So someone said.
Could you imagine my agony, horror when after more than an hour, we met almost no homes, no shops, no supermarkets, no public toilets. I saw no man walking on the road, except cows, sheep, horses in the fields and these could pee without fear of being fined or being watched.
You plan to have a nice, comfortable trip and it’s so very offensive to take a pee-pan or an emergency empty aqua bottle and urinate in the car or go out of the car and do it as a thief in a hidden corner, behind a bush. How fine is it in a country as Indonesia, which is not very civilized as European countries. You could pay and pee in a toilet, or just pee somewhere in the open behind a tree or hide yourself in a corner for free if you want to. No one would be offended.
“Never lose your wits I say. What do you think?” So said Opa Johan to his wife.
January 2010
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