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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
In Lithuania, they had squat toilets in the bus stations. There was an old lady sitting at a table outside the washrooms, and it cost 10 cents to get your two squares of toilet paper and go in and use the toilet. The mens washrooms had urinals too, actually - they were a big cattle trough, with a water pipe running across the wall that had nail holes punched in it to provide a rinsing stream of water.
The previous poster who said a squat toilet was better than a poorly kept western toilet was totally right - the only time I was sick to my stomach was paying my 10 cents to take a dump, and finding the toilet piled full of excrement to above the seat.
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This is what it was like in parts of Bosnia as well. I remember going into one at a bus station to take a leak and complaining about pissing into the hole in the ground while it all sprayed back all over me. My friend that I was traveling with then proceeded to laugh at me and call me an idiot because I didn't walk around the corner to find the freaking urinals.