Women in Malaysia Have 4 Arms, not forearms
Posted under: We are spending the next few days in the swanky conference rooms at the hotel, for the Asia Pacific Sales Meeting. I can’t make you believe how nice this hotel and staff is. The Malaysian people are all so welcoming and accommodating. It’s been a wonderful experience. Until I had to use the loo at the conference center…
Apparently, Malaysian women have four arms. Not forearms, but 4 arms. Or a life vest? Tsumani backlash? eh?
I head to the facilities to find this on the door to the ladies room:
After a slight giggle, I walked in to the bathroom to not such a laughing matter. Now, up until this point, everything here has been very Westernized. Even a lollypop on the bed with turn down service. So you can imagine my surprise when i walk into the stall to find this:
Yep. You are probably having the same reaction i did. “Wha? uh, huh? What do I? where do my? how do i? Uh?” For 3 solid minutes I contemplated positions. standing? squatting? crab walk? I decided on crab walk, and halfway through, though i MUST be doing this wrong. So though the laughter and pain in my wrists, i finished, and of course immediately decided this needed to be a post to share with you all.
No wonder they have four arms. They need them to use the bathroom! (I’m totally picturing a Bloggess Photoshopped pic of this, so, Jenny, have at it. )
The bathroom situation aside, the other facilities are immaculate. Not to mention I will be spending the next 2 days overlooking the Petronas Towers here:
Hopefully, I’ll make it through the next 2 days with minimal crab walks.
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i’m malaysian and i can assure you i do not have four arms. ;) i’m surprised that the hotel have squatting toilets, which is usually more common at the less swanky places here. sitting toilets are very common here actually.
Aa update on this. Yes, there was a non-squatting stall right next to this one. So looks like i won’t be squatting all week. I’m the idiot. :-) Thanks for the info, Sulz!
hardly the idiot – it’s an interesting learning experience for you i’m sure. :) i read in a newspaper article years ago that some caucasian, haven’t seen a squatting toilet before, got her rump stuck in the bowl because she thought it was to be sat upon!
That is awesome. I’m totally going to use my own toilet as a squatting crabwalk toilet from now on just so I can feel “international”.
jenny: it’s not as amusing when you want to use a sitting toilet and see dirty shoe prints on the toilet seat!
Man oh man. If you had trouble I wonder what a 6’4″ man would do.
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