Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge #Australia Trip #4 #lovemelbourne #viewintheloo #dontstallinthestall
Warning: Content May Be Offensive to Some
If you have been in a bathroom in the United States, you have been assaulted by graffiti, someone loves someone else, maybe even phone numbers.
Australia is different. Or if you are Australian, my thinking is a bit skewed. Or maybe my thinking IS a bit skewed. You can decide that after you read.
The “loo” is clean. Australians cures for graffiti by covering the door with instructions.
Seriously or Australian Humor?
I expected to have language difficulties when I came to Australia. However, I thought I would understand icons and instruction drawings.
Wrong.
This poster appears in several bathrooms around Australia. This one accosted me in the airport as soon as I deplaned in Brisbane, Queensland.
“Who stands on a toilet?” I thought. “Is she hiding from someone? Is she exercising – NEXT TO THE TOILET? There must be a better place to do that! What’s up with this? Eeew! I’d almost rather read graffiti.”
Apparently, there is a problem with newcomers to Australia not understanding how to use a flush toilet, so the government solved the problem with these iconic drawings.
OK, I was not expecting that, but things are different in Australia just as they would be in any country.
But I became guarded about using the loo.
A few days later I went to Healesville Sanctuary to see the native animals. The Sanctuary is environmentally conscientious. I found this sign.
So, I wondered, “How in the world the Sanctuary recycled their toilet paper. How does that even work? How could they ever make enough paper to offer it for sale? I was sure I did not want to use it! Notice the paper is brown. Yikes!”
I asked my friends, Leanne Cole and the Eternal Traveller and their friends about it. They did not understand my problem.
I thought it was CLEAR! Crystal Clear! Gross, but clear.
They thought I was “bit of a nutter.”
Finally, Mrs. ET figured it out.
“Companies turn recycled paper into toilet paper. The Sanctuary want everyone to use fewer trees and use recycled toilet paper. They don’t recycle the toilet paper used here.”
You read the sign. It’s ambiguous, right? Suzanna agreed with me. The story got around, and several people including my hubby who came up with some solutions to recycling toilet paper.
Hopefully, you can’t think of any. For more oddball pictures click here.
Recent Australia Posts
- Australian Gold Rush #1
- Melbourne’s Walk in the Park Tour: Treasury Gardens #2
- Fun Flying from Melbourne to Toowoomba #3
Additional Posts
The Eternal Traveller’s posts
Leanne’s Posts
A Wandering Memory’s Posts
Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
Leave a reply to Tina Frisco Cancel reply