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Stop the insanity!

Apr 27th, 2006 by B.

I won’t re-address the whole german toilet issue as both Megan from Still Here, Still Foreign and Jen from Heisse Scheisse (links to the left for both blogs) have talked about it in a much funnier way than I ever could… but I will say that Jim’s potty shtick is getting out of hand.

It all started with him yelling “fire in the hole!” upon, err, defecation. This was bad enough… especially because I once heard him doing it at Karstadt, third floor, men’s department. But now he’s adding to his repertoire by sticking his head out of the bathroom post-evacuation and saying “I’ll be out in a minute… I have to scrub the poop deck first”.

Now, those of you who live in germany know that between low-flow & poor design, a healthy post-dump bowl scrub is essential… and I did snicker the first dozen or so times he whipped out the ‘poop deck’ reference, but this must end before it’s mystery science theatre 3000 in our bathroom….

On this day..

Let it be. - 2008

Posted in Expat Antics: Life in Germany | 9 Comments

9 Responses to “Stop the insanity!”

on 27 Apr 2006 at 8:38 am1christina

Ha ha! And I thought my husband and kids were bad. Thank your for making me spit coffee all over my keyboard this morning.
on 27 Apr 2006 at 9:36 am2Claire

LOL! The toilets here leave something to be desired. I came to Germany for the first time and my first experience with a toilet was at a gas station on the way from the airport to my town. It was overwhelming! 1) you had to pay 50 pfennig 2) the “poop-deck” (WTF??) 3) you had to pull up on the handle to make it flush, which took me about 5 minutes to figure out. When I finally emerged, the friend who picked me up from the airport looked at me, “Are you okay? I thought you had fallen in?” I looked him dead in the face, “I hate Germany. Send me back.”
on 27 Apr 2006 at 11:17 am3Adam

Thankfully the toilet in my apartment is not the inspection shelf kind, otherwise I would go crazy… I hate whenever I encounter one of the nasty kind that you’ve just described.
on 27 Apr 2006 at 11:50 am4megan

and comments like that is exactly what I’m missing out on by marrying a German.

I’m going to steal that and use it just to see what my German does…
on 27 Apr 2006 at 3:08 pm5Lisa

My first reaction to this new entry was, “Jim! Ewwww!!!” lol

Upon reflection tho, I have to say that your entries are never dull B, & I love you for that!
on 27 Apr 2006 at 3:45 pm6B.

Oddly enough, only one of our toilets is the shelf kind… and since we’re here for at least 3 years, I’m planning on installing a new one. I just can’t stand knowing my digestive system that well.

And Lisa, even george clooney poops! (but I’m sure it’s cute, yet manly, poop… maybe in the shape of vintage mustangs or something…)
on 27 Apr 2006 at 5:20 pm7Trish

In theory, I want to travel the world, really I do. But….I don’t think I’m adventurous enough for German poop-factor toilets.
on 27 Apr 2006 at 6:54 pm8Lisa

I know Geoge Clooney poops…..He may be handsome…But I don’t need to know about it! LOL

*On the subject of GC…I’ll always like him, but I’m telling you….There ars some Aussie/Kiwi/English guys turning my head lately…Don’t ask…lol
on 28 Apr 2006 at 11:15 am9Haddock

Those sayings are REALLY funny (must be bloke humour or something!). Fortunately since moving to our house we do not have the poop deck toilets anymore. But we do get to use them at our inlaws when we visit.