Bolshoi in Russia: Taking a cubicle to a whole new level
Greetings from Moscow! Bolshoi in Russia is my variation on Big in Japan. (Bolshoi means "Big" in Russian. Get it?) Stay tuned for my live dispatches from Russia this week.
Nothing in Moscow is free. Not even toilets. Worse than that, not even portable toilets. They charge anywhere from 15 rubles - 30 rubles (about 70 cents - $1.3) to use them. And no, you really don't pay for them to be clean. You pay so they can employ a person to collect money from you. See how that works?
This is my favorite part. They usually use one of the portable toilets as an "office" for somebody who collects cash from people. Think about that every time you complain about your life in a cubicle, OK?
From Russia, with love.
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May 22nd 2008 @ 2:03AM
myatsu said...
-Where do you work?
- Oh, that in that toilet the 3rd floor.
hahaha
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May 22nd 2008 @ 9:35AM
DJ said...
You have to pay to use the toilet all over Europe. Very few public restrooms are free. "Madam or Monsieur Pee Pee" is sitting there with her dish, collecting a few cents so that you can relieve yourself!
We went on a dinner cruise on the Rhine River and you even had to pay on that, even though we had already paid $125 for the cruise! That's why so many men pee on the side of the road! Thank God I'm an American!
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