Beauty and the Beast

Before you jump to any conclusions about the title, let me tell you anything you are already thinking is wrong. I am not refering to Darin and I (although it is pretty obvious who is who in that context with all the hair on that man's body). I am not referring to the Disney cartoon (although it is a good one and my kindergartens would love it). I am referring to toilets. Now I am not one to usually talk about this subject, but in this case, having seen what I have seen, I feel it is necessary. So here's the warning: THIS IS A POTTY POST

The lines in the womens washrooms here are among the strangest I have been in. You do not wait in a single line as I am accustomed to; you choose a stall and stand 2 inches from it to prevent someone from cutting ahead of you and that is the stall you use. You have no idea what is behind that door and sometimes it is this:
Yes, that is a urinal in the floor and you are expected to do whatever business you need to into that 5 inch wide hole. I was warned about this before we came here but the experience was in Japan, this is Korea, I convinced myself that things would be different here. I was wrong, but when you have to go, you have to go...

On the complete opposite side of the spectrum of toilets I found this one at a restaurant in Seoul: This thing is like a go-go-gadget-toilet! It has a heated seat (it's so hot you can feel the heat radiating off it, I was taught to hover in public toilets) and it has an assortment of buttons on the side that one can only imagine what they are for (the writing was in Korean so I couldn't tell.) I did discover the use of one of the buttons, quite by accident while I was trying to flush the thing. A nice little lever came from the inside of the toilet and proceeded to spray water everywhere. I imagine that something (ahem) is supposed to be in the way of that water flow to prevent it from going all over your pants, shirt and hair but I was standing, fully clothed, trapped in a little space getting soaked. You try going back to the table to explain to your husband a bidet came out of nowhere and proceeded to attack you. It was pretty funny.

I can't believe I took pictures of a toilet! Twice!!