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From: kolling@decwrl.UUCP (Karen Kolling)
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Subject: Re: paris, france (really: how to find a bathroom)
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Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 14:40:10 EST
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>>My brother had a different experience in France. In the international
>>section of the Paris airport, he approached a police officer and asked
>>"Where is the bathroom." The officer shook his head, so my brother asked
>>again in German, and then in Spanish - still no luck. Finally he pointed
>>toward his fly and shouted PISS. Somehow, the officer seemed to understand.
>
>Acutually, this is another example of American pruience.  I doubt if your
>brother wanted to take a BATH, he wanted to PISS.  If he had asked for
>a toilet (which is what it is), most likely, he would have been
>satisfactorily directed.  (Many European toilets are in separate rooms from
>bath tubs and showers, and vica versa.)

And don't ask for a "restroom" in England or Denmark, or you'll be surrounded
by concerned people who think you've become ill and need a place to lie down.
(In France, they'd probably ignore you if you were dying in front of their
eyes.)