Published by Swiss James on 30 May 2007 at 07:14 pm
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A few firsts for me over the last couple of days.
Last night was the first time I’d ever ridden a bike with one person sat side-saddle on the parcel shelf, and one perched on the seat. It can be done, but it’s exhausting and you tend to sway hither-and-fro hitting pigeons and trucks.
Those parcel shelves are dead handy.
Monday night was my first time in a Sichuan restaurant- a region noted for it’s fiery, oily cuisine- and Tuesday morning was the first time I’ve ever had to call my girlfriend to have her explain to a taxi driver we need to stop the car urgently.
This was shortly followed by my first, and hopefully last time pooping in the communal squat-trough of a Chinese marketplace W.C.
As shown below.
If you were disappointed when that last image didn’t show up, you may want to get some help.
Where do i get said help?
And can i see it if i pay you?
If you go to Harbin in the Winter for the Ice Festival (which I’d highly recommmend but remember to take a pair of gloves cos it’s -30c), then you might be lucky enough to see a guy with what I think is one of the worst jobs in the world. He has to take a spade and chip the frozen turds out of the trough toilet for disposal…give’s a whole new meaning to the phrase McJob…
You should see the things that James’s ayi has to do..
Can’t believe you’ve not had Sichuan till now. It’s my favourite. There’s no apostrophe in “its” by the way. And surely when the turds are frozen, there’s less odour so it’s really quite a pleasant job to have!
I’m with Wo Ai here, frozen tudds are much preferable to fresh, and it’s not like he has to eat any yellow snow.
Anonymous, for 8,000 Angolan Shillings I’ll go back and recreate it, but sadly I didn’t take a photo and it was all a ruse.