Sunday, June 04, 2006
the trash can border
What many people don't realize is that the line between Mexico and the US is not a distinct one. You can cross the "border" without too much trouble. Then there is a second 20 mile station that you really are supposed to have some paperwork to be able to cross. But US companies do business South of the border, and San Antonio is majority hispanic. So where does the US end and Mexico begin?
In Mexico there is a custom that you throw your used toilet paper in a wastebasket by the toilet. This wastebasket has no plastic bag, so the whole thing is entirely unsanitary. But throughout Mexico nobody flushes toilet paper and there is massive amout of human feces stuck to paper that has to be handled. This is probably caused by terrible plumbing and people often using regular paper that used to have news printed on it.
I've noticed that even back in the US side of Laredo at a Jack and the Box they have to have a trash can by the toilet. The plumbing is up to US commercial code, and the Jack N the Box provides the toilet paper. The trash can is full of paper that should have been flushed. But I've been to another establishment who didn't put a trashcan by the toilet and there is a pile of used toilet paper on the floor where the trash can would have been.
So, I consider that we have a trash can border. If you are in a place that either has a trash can by the toilet full of used toilet paper, or has used toilet paper in a pile on the floor without a trashcan, then you are in Mexico.
In Mexico there is a custom that you throw your used toilet paper in a wastebasket by the toilet. This wastebasket has no plastic bag, so the whole thing is entirely unsanitary. But throughout Mexico nobody flushes toilet paper and there is massive amout of human feces stuck to paper that has to be handled. This is probably caused by terrible plumbing and people often using regular paper that used to have news printed on it.
I've noticed that even back in the US side of Laredo at a Jack and the Box they have to have a trash can by the toilet. The plumbing is up to US commercial code, and the Jack N the Box provides the toilet paper. The trash can is full of paper that should have been flushed. But I've been to another establishment who didn't put a trashcan by the toilet and there is a pile of used toilet paper on the floor where the trash can would have been.
So, I consider that we have a trash can border. If you are in a place that either has a trash can by the toilet full of used toilet paper, or has used toilet paper in a pile on the floor without a trashcan, then you are in Mexico.
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