It helps to have a captive market when it comes to selling toilet paper. There's a café on the road from Cairo to the White Desert, the only one for scores of miles, and when a coach-load of tourists stops for the inevitable comfort break the price rises to 1 Egyptian pound per sheet! No limit on quantity, of course, because more sales = more profit. Needless to say, there was much grumbling and mumblings of 'b----y crooks' from the Australian group I was with.
John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob W Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2013 5:45 AM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: RE: Travel > From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Sessoms > > A few quick notes because I haven't even been home 10 minutes & I > already have to reboot this computer to install updates. > > 1. The most wonderful thing I discovered in all of my travels is the > joy of coming home to a bathroom that has the right kind of toilet > paper. > Luxury to have TP at all in some places. In the Ras Hotel in Addis Ababa when I was there you had to ask the toilet paper lady, sitting outside, to let you have some before you went in. You get 3 sheets, and have to spend a lot of time persuading her that this is not going to be adequate. Especially after some types of Ethiopian food. There are young lads in the streets who sell the stuff, one sheet at a time. > 2. Why do traffic engineers love traffic circles (aka round-a-bouts) > so much when most American drivers have no idea what to do when they > come to one? > > I'm thinking specifically of the driver who came to a complete halt in > front of me and waited until traffic cleared so she could TURN LEFT. > > For those who are unfamiliar with driving in the U.S., we drive on the > right side of the road, so traffic circles naturally flow to the right > (counter-clockwise). > Here's an interesting challenge then: <http://www.itv.com/news/west/2012-10-09/40-years-of-swindons-magic-roundabo ut/> It helps if you have a PhD in celestial mechanics, and a sound understanding of the 3-body problem. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
