FOREIGN TOILETS

Spend any time talking to someone who has been on a missions trip and sooner rather than later it is inevitable that the conversation will come around to the facilities available for relieving yourself. Here are a couple of bathroom snippets from our recent visit to India -

1. On our last morning there, I heard a piercing scream from the bathroom where Gill was showering. Turns out there was a fair size frog clinging to the tiled wall and for some reason my good wife had an aversion to sharing her personal time with the creature! Enter Sir Galahad.

2. During the pastors' conference I was teaching we touched on how it is important that our facilities look their best for the sake of our Sunday guests. The state of the bathrooms was mentioned in this segment, after which the pastor of a large church in Hydrabad thanked me for the insights and said he had decided that from now on they would ask for the use of the toilets in the building they rent on Sundays. Turns out they had never had them opened up because it would cost more!!!! Short services there, I guess!

3. I cannot for the life of me work out why in the men's room of the business class lounge in Mumbai airport there are two urinals and no stalls. I guess posh people don't ... okay, you get the idea!