Thailand By Train – aka best short story ever.

On a train ride from Bangkok going North (I995 or 1996), there were no bathrooms available on the train. I was reading a newspaper when someone came and asked me to have a section of the paper. I was surprised: as the paper was in Dutch, I was sure he could not read it. Curious what he would do with it, I gave him the sports pages. Which he folded open in the middle of the floor (the wagon was quite crowded), squatted down over it and did his business. Nobody seemed to mind or to be really surprised by this. When all was done, the paper was folded and went out the window!

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