When you need to get some ones attention or you run out of good material resort to toilet humor. At any rate, it’s a glorified whole in the ground. Western toilets are a luxury now, not essential. Often I’m forced to use the “Turkish” toilet when working with my Iraqi counterparts. It’s difficult. It requires balance and if you look closely you will notice that in Iraq it does not require toilet paper, a serious issue indeed. Well how does one make this work? Well my method, a conclusion I came to through observation and trial and error, is to place my hand on the wall behind the toilet to provide balance. I find that if you center yourself it could prove disastrous; aiming is akin to WWII bomb runs. You could place one done the leg of your pants if you’re not careful. The position needed to perform nature’s call is a position one finds many Iraqis when they are just hanging out, much like a baseball catcher. After my first attempt at the maneuver I was left wondering how the toilet paper situation worked, I mean it can’t still be the old medieval adage of using your left hand can it? But I took a shallow breath and realized that was what the red pitcher is for. Then it took me a moment to figure out the mechanics of it. The pitchers have a long crooked spout to place the water in just the right place. The pitcher can best be described as an 18^th century baday of sorts. It’s really hard to imagine what disabled people or the elderly must do to be able to use the facilities, but then I’ve seen the handicap bars over here to. To most of the world, this is the way they go to the bathroom. Western toilets are not the norm and if you enjoy traveling you’d better get used to it