what’s with the toilet seats in niger?

Are you sliding off the toilet, being pinched on the bottom, having to go without a toilet seat or being bounced off the toilet by your toilet seat? You might be in Niger!

On about day two Peter's sister Nina, who is visiting from Alaska, posed the title question. Good observation Nina!

The toilet seat in our master bathroom is off its custom hinges and bounces you sideways off the toilet every time you sit down. Was it a good idea to install toilets with a customized toilet seats so that the seats are unreplaceable? All the toilet seats in our house are either sliding off the broken hinges or missing because we have traded them up to more-frequently-used bathrooms. Then Nina comes to visit us at work, where out of the three toilet options, one has a missing seat, one seat is cracked and pinches your behind hard everytime you sit down, and the third toilet has a normal seat, but don't use that one becuase the toilet sprays water out the side in a gusher of a fountain when you flush.

I'm sparing you by not posting a photo today.

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2 responses to “what’s with the toilet seats in niger?”

  1. Jim Avatar
    Jim

    It could be worse. She visited our house before her trip to Ouaga and locked herself in our bathroom. Last time that happened, it was our Facility Maintenance Supervisor, who called us on his cell phone and I had to provide him with a screwdriver to dismantle the lock from the inside LOL. 🙂

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  2. Jane Avatar
    Jane

    That was hilarious – especially about the three toilets at work, each one with it’s own idiosyncratic issues, but I’m sorry you have to contend with that!

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