The Squatty Potties.

I do not like the squat toliets.
I use them because I am an adult and a world traveller and the alternative is a urinary tract infection or peeing my pants.

But I don't like them.

I find there to be something completely undignified about squatting. Especially inside a building. It's a modern world, I'm in a modern country (despite my friend's and family's idea that Korea is a third world country) and indoor toliets are supposed to be the opposite of outdoor ones. You sit down. You don't have to worry about falling over, touching too many gross things, or peeing on your shoes/pants/self. Going to the bathroom should not be a test of balance and/or calf strength.

I'm faced with the reality of squatty potties at the schools I work at and in public places, like the restrooms at bus stations. One guy at orientation had been here a month and had yet to use the bathroom at his school. I wonder how long he's going to make it?

I am a spoiled American, accustomed to the luxury of indoor plumbing and toliets you sit on. I am also a realist and a practical person. This is how most of the world relieves themselves. Am I not going to travel or live other places in the world because occasionally I have to squat and sometimes I have to bring my own toliet paper? Preposterous.

One last concern I know you're all worried about...explosive diarrhea.
That just got less fun with a squatty potty.


In summation:

If I'm not camping or drunk or (and most preferably) drunk while camping, I don't want to squat.