Re: The Things You See

[Petals]

#23466

WELL I DONT KNOW WHETHER I SHOULD WRITE THIS ONE,
BUT MAYBE I WILL.

YEARS AND YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS A WEE SLIP OF A GIRL, I TRAVELLED
TO SOUTH AFRICA ON MY OWN. IT WAS A CHARTER FLIGHT AND AS SUCH
I HAD TO FLY TO LUXEMBOURG AND THEREONAFTER IT TOOK ANOTHER DAY
OR SO VIA KHARTOUM BEFORE WE ARRIVED IN LOURENCO MARQUES. NOW
KNOWN AS MOZAMBIQUE.

ON ARRIVING AT THE VERY PLUSH 'POLANO HOTEL' SOME OF THE GIRLS ON THE FLIGHT WHO WERE TRAVELLING ON
TO DURBAN BY TRAIN IN THE EARLY HOURS OF THE MORNING, ASKED IF THEY COULD BUNK IN MY ROOM FOR THE NIGHT.
THAT WAS FINE BY ME. I WAS BEING MET THE FOLLOWING DAY AND
BEING DRIVEN BY CAR TO JOHANNESBURG.

THE NEXT MORNING I WAS AWOKEN BY THE GIRLS LEAVING AND SAYING
GOODBYE.

IT WAS MENTIONED TO ME (ALTHOUGH I HARDLY HEARD OR UNDERSTOOD
WHAT WAS BEING SAID), THAT THERE HAD BEEN AN ACCIDENT IN THE BATHROOM. WHEN I FINALLY AWOKE AND WENT INTO THE BATHROOM
I SAW A TOILET STACKED HIGH WITH PAPER. BEMUSED, I COULD NOT UNDER-STAND WHY THEY HAD NOT FLUSHED THE LOO. I EVENTUALLY FOUND
A BUTTON (NOT LIKE THE CHAIN WHICH WE HAD AT HOME), PRESSED IT HARD,
ONLY TO FIND THAT IT WAS NOT THE LOO, BUT A BIDET!

WELL, I COULD NOT BELIEVE MY EYES! <img src='style_emoticons//ph34r.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’ph34r.gif’ />

I THINK YOU CAN GUESS THE REST…..BUT AS BIDETS WERE NOT FAMILIAR
TO ME AT THAT TIME, THEY WERE OBVIOUSLY NOT FAMILIAR TO MY NEWLY
FOUND FRIENDS EITHER!

I HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN THAT INCIDENT, AND I BET THE GIRLS HAVE NOT
FORGOTTEN IT TOO. <img src='style_emoticons//laugh.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’laugh.gif’ />