worlds first..
woes of being a parent. woes of having to face public toilets. Woes of having to go out with your little daughter on a sunday afternoon. in crowded singapore. Truly, 4.5million singaporeans take to the streets on the weekends. And there are only so few places to go to? Today, I walked in to the public toilet at City Hall MRT station. You smell the stench before you enter. And there was this helpless mother making her daughter pee into a plastic bag simple because the q was too long and the poor child could not hold it in any longer.I thought that singapore was a clean, green and fine city. Shame on our toilets.
I thought singapore was going to have the FIRST toilet college in the world (see, we really need it). Shame on our toilets.
(A german friend who visited singapore remarked that we have a thing for words like "first", "largest", "biggest"... eg. "worlds tallest man made waterfall", "the southern most point", now to add on will be the worlds first toilet colleage)
Its amazing how in our squeaky clean island, we can have such awful toilets. In particular the ones you find in the MRT stations. Another really gross one is the Ang Mo Kio station's toilet. It was such a traumatizing moment when I have to use it I'd rather not think about it now.
I am not some spoilt city brat who can't go to toilets without gold taps (haha). I've been to Nepal where the toilet was simple a hole in the ground. Yet it was totally bearable. A little shack out in the open, is always full of fresh mountain air and plenty of ventilation. The toilet never stinks as badly as some of them here.
My heart goes out to that poor mother. In fact, i think kids should just stay at home till they can behave and learn to use the bathroom not at the last minute. I remember seeing a family at this restaurant once. Father, mother and little daughter enters restaurant. daughter went into the babt chair. Father leaves the 2 of them behind (to go shopping??).Poor mother had to ensure that daughter eats. All this while she was throwing fries all over. How delightful. how adorable! I have nothing against kids who behave. those who don't should just stay home.
posted by eline @ 8:08 PM
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