Bathroom Roulette

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Well, this has been quite a week. I guess what happens when you actually start having fun in China is that you lose the time to write about it. It's Saturday night here and I am blissfully staying home and going to bed early. It was a great holiday week, but super-busy. I'm glad for a night off from the fun and frivolity.

So many parts of my Chinese life that were different and unexpected are now normal to me, to the extent that I forget to write about them!  But here's one I was reminded of today: in a public bathroom with multiple stalls, instead of waiting at the head of the stall line for the next available stall, you have to go stand in front of a stall and wait for it to become empty. And it seems like I always choose the wrong stall and have to wait longer than someone who came in behind me. I have bad bathroom stall karma! There must be some secret to determining which stall will be empty next, but I have yet to figure it out. Maybe by the time I go home next year, I'll win bathroom roulette.

I have some more pictures to upload, but I am just too tired tonight to do it. However, here is one taken on the day we went biking. Aww...aren't I cute with eyeliner raccoon-bag eyes? NOT! Yikes, next time we go biking, NO MAKE UP! It got all over my face.


Comments

Busy Bee Suz said…
The bathroom waiting game is wierd. I loathe it when someone stands outside my stall. I get potty nerves!!!!
Your picture is adorable. I can't see the raccoon eyes, so there!!!
:)
Saturday, October 10, 2009
yrautca said…
Did you notice that you have started to look a little Chinese?
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Scarlet said…
That bathroom roulette game reminds me of one of my favorite restaurants here in Miami. I'll have to blog about it.

Btw, you look beautiful! I wish I looked like that after a bike ride.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Its Just Me - Daring to Dream said…
Aww the picture is fine! And I think the bathroom rule is funny. I would find it an invasion of privacy having someone so close to my stall while doing my business - especially if I were making 'interesting sounds and smells'...I dont envy you there, girl. Bu I guess if you gotta go - you play by the 'roulette' huh?
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Technodoll said…
What raccoon? All I see is a happy and beautiful young layday :)

At least the bathroom stalls have doors. Imagine if not?!
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Rebecca Foster said…
BBS, people stand outside stalls where you live, too? Interesting. I have never seen it in my part of the U.S.

yrautca, I hadn't noticed, but if I am, I'll take it as a compliment. Chinese girls are beautiful.

Scarlet, please do! Can't wait to read it.

It's Just Me, it's totally like that, too. I hate it when people stand outside my stall.

Techno, aw, thanks. And yes, at least these had doors. Remember the others I posted that did not? Ohhh...maybe I didn't post those! I'll have to dig them up.
Monday, October 12, 2009
yrautca said…
Meant as a compliment. Great pictures!
Monday, October 12, 2009
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