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Two Squares?

How many squares of toilet paper do you use?

  • 1

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 2

    Votes: 4 7.3%

  • 3

    Votes: 3 5.5%

  • 4

    Votes: 5 9.1%

  • 5

    Votes: 7 12.7%

  • 6

    Votes: 2 3.6%

  • 7

    Votes: 15 27.3%

  • I use a carrot

    Votes: 19 34.5%
  • Total voters
    55
#61
txbasschik said:
She's obviously never had to wade...yes...through a Pemex station in a remote part of Mexico. TP is the least of your worries then. Not getting whatever is on the floor, inside your shoes, is cause for thanksgiving. To have toilet paper in such a situation is cause for outright celebration. When you are safely back in your car!

Cherie
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Handiwipes are nice too. Never travel w/o 'em. Mexico is a beautiful place. I see you've seen some of the more beautiful places as well. ;)
 
#62
MakiSupaStar said:
Handiwipes are nice too. Never travel w/o 'em. Mexico is a beautiful place. I see you've seen some of the more beautiful places as well. ;)
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Yeah, we had wipes. This was 1981, so those consisted of Handiwipes and a bottle of soapy water. But...Have Mercy!!! After that Pemex station, I used bushes the whole way there and back.

It really was a beautiful trip. We drove down in a van, and so got to see the plains in northern Tamaulipas grow flatter and flatter, then hillier and higher.

The trip was led by two guides from the Gladys Porter Zoo. They had a deal with this old lady up in the Sierra Orientales. She had bought a house and land back in the 50's, and never did much else to the place. All around her, they were ranching and logging and what-all, but her place was pristine except for the house and garden. Wildlife and native plants all over the place. No electricity, cold running water, and little pink parakeet-type birds that came to the window every morning and woke up us. I stayed a week.

So these guys led what would now be called ecotours to her place. She had a local couple who lived with her and cooked, and they were very cool. Taught us to cook the local foods. Played guitars and sang with us in the evenings. Very good people.

We went tubing down a river that sprung from a hole in the rock 275' deep. It was crystal clear. We rode mules and horses everywhere. (She had the only car in the village.) We hiked the jungle and saw 12 military macaws all at once...they're rare.

People in the village had wattle-and-daub homes, with gardens on top, and floors swept so clean, day after day, that they shone like painted concrete.

Lovely, lovely place.

But there wasn't very much toilet paper!!! It wasn't very good, and if you ran out, you might have to wait a day or two before the guy who owned the store decided to open up.

Cherie :)
 
#63
txbasschik said:
She's obviously never had to wade...yes...through a Pemex station in a remote part of Mexico. TP is the least of your worries then. Not getting whatever is on the floor, inside your shoes, is cause for thanksgiving. To have toilet paper in such a situation is cause for outright celebration. When you are safely back in your car!

Cherie
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Aren't there any non cactus trees to lean up against in Mexico?? :confused: I'd rather duck behind a bush and rough it than go into a mexican gas station bathroom!!
 
#64
txbasschik said:
Yeah, we had wipes. This was 1981, so those consisted of Handiwipes and a bottle of soapy water. But...Have Mercy!!! After that Pemex station, I used bushes the whole way there and back.

It really was a beautiful trip. We drove down in a van, and so got to see the plains in northern Tamaulipas grow flatter and flatter, then hillier and higher.

The trip was led by two guides from the Gladys Porter Zoo. They had a deal with this old lady up in the Sierra Orientales. She had bought a house and land back in the 50's, and never did much else to the place. All around her, they were ranching and logging and what-all, but her place was pristine except for the house and garden. Wildlife and native plants all over the place. No electricity, cold running water, and little pink parakeet-type birds that came to the window every morning and woke up us. I stayed a week.

So these guys led what would now be called ecotours to her place. She had a local couple who lived with her and cooked, and they were very cool. Taught us to cook the local foods. Played guitars and sang with us in the evenings. Very good people.

We went tubing down a river that sprung from a hole in the rock 275' deep. It was crystal clear. We rode mules and horses everywhere. (She had the only car in the village.) We hiked the jungle and saw 12 military macaws all at once...they're rare.

People in the village had wattle-and-daub homes, with gardens on top, and floors swept so clean, day after day, that they shone like painted concrete.

Lovely, lovely place.

But there wasn't very much toilet paper!!! It wasn't very good, and if you ran out, you might have to wait a day or two before the guy who owned the store decided to open up.

Cherie :)
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I drove down to Cabo San Lucas. Then we took the ferry across to Mainland Mex. Wipes. Phfft. :scowl: We ended up cutting the cotton sheets that my buddy used to cover the leather of his Land Cruiser to wipe our butts with during a nasty 'bout with goat cheese. :eek:
 
#76
dancehallclasher said:
are you guys mental? That was clearly satirical. Reading comprehension, hooray!
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Have you read the entire blog? It is not clear at all whether its satirical at not. I thought it might be because the comment is so inane no normal human could make it unless they were being satirical, but if you read the entire blog, every other paragraph seems to be genuine, so why wouldnt you supose that that one was not?

Happy to hear why you think its satirical though as I originally posted I thought it might be but was disuaded otherwise by the tone of the rest of the blog.
 

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