soc.culture.china

"PaPaPeng" wrote in message
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>>Though I think PPP is actually referring to fancy Western restrooms
>>where there is a well-dressed "servant" in the bathroom who hands you
>>a towel after you wash your hands and you're supposed to tip. I'm
>>pretty sure those still exist in the US.
> You bet. Now I am all for public toilets that have a caretaker. They
> keep it clean and keep out the riffraff, or at least keep them under
> control. Come to think of it had there been a caretaker at the
> Minneapolis airport Senator Larry Craig wouldn't be deep in the
> doggydoo he is in now.
> On those nattily dressed toilet towel hander outs in the pricey
> establishments I feel very uneasy about them. Its a very undignified
> way to earn a living. I can pee or take a crap all by myself. Why
> would I need someone to hand me a towel? My uneasiness is no man
> should pander to me that way.
> One more toilet story. I go to my favorite Chinese noodle house twice
> a week. It has the typical malodorous Chinese restaurant toilet.
> Since its the men's room the waitresses won't go in there to clean it.
> Bless be that there is still modesty amongst Chinese misses. So the
> male cooks do the honors. Hey I have been eating there for 30 years
> now. Since I haven't caught serious illness yet its too late for me
> to change restaurants. The others are not much better anyway.
>
I have actually seen a few top-scale hotels in Beijing (Beijing Hotel,
Ritz-Carlton Beijing to name but a couple) that have attendants in their
restrooms on the ground floor. These attendants not only would hand you
freshly-cleaned towels, but would also offer to give you a massage. Here in
Hamlet's Kingdom, there are always attendants in the public restrooms, and
their function is not so much to hand you towels, but to act as a deterrent
against any attempt to turn public restrooms into meeting places for junkies
and homosexuals.
J.