Advice for budget travel...and random gossip about (the sexlives of) my roommates...
For all of you peanut lovers out there who doubted the necessity of the flip flops or shower shoes for hostel/hotel bathrooms, never doubt again! Those shoes that take up extra room in your bag and don't really serve a purpose other than walking to and from bedroom to bathroom might not only protect your feet from cold tile in the early morning but also save you from an STD!
This morning, while sitting on the can taking that first-thing-in-the-morning piss, I was startled to see a used condom in the shower drain of our one-room bathroom. (I'm sure there's a proper name for this sort of thing, but it's really just a room with a tiled floor, a sink, a toilet and shower in the corner with no curtain, walls, or any other sort of division to separate it from the rest of the room.) Safe sex is one thing; safe sex in the shower is another. Safe sex in the shower of a hostel is another thing all together. BUT safe sex in the shower of a hostel in this weird one-room outfit is perplexing. It's not really possible to have that whole steamy, up-against-the-wall sort of affair in this sort of bathroom. And while I should be (or could be) totally disgusted by this discovery, I'm more or less confused and intrigued by the logistics of it all. What had to happen for the condom to end up in the drain on the floor?
More speculation is entirely possible--who was involved? how many people? which positions? etc.--but I must be getting to bed before it's too late (and I would much rather be sound asleep when the one-night shower sexfest begins).
This morning, while sitting on the can taking that first-thing-in-the-morning piss, I was startled to see a used condom in the shower drain of our one-room bathroom. (I'm sure there's a proper name for this sort of thing, but it's really just a room with a tiled floor, a sink, a toilet and shower in the corner with no curtain, walls, or any other sort of division to separate it from the rest of the room.) Safe sex is one thing; safe sex in the shower is another. Safe sex in the shower of a hostel is another thing all together. BUT safe sex in the shower of a hostel in this weird one-room outfit is perplexing. It's not really possible to have that whole steamy, up-against-the-wall sort of affair in this sort of bathroom. And while I should be (or could be) totally disgusted by this discovery, I'm more or less confused and intrigued by the logistics of it all. What had to happen for the condom to end up in the drain on the floor?
More speculation is entirely possible--who was involved? how many people? which positions? etc.--but I must be getting to bed before it's too late (and I would much rather be sound asleep when the one-night shower sexfest begins).
posted by Elizabeth at 5:47 PM
2 Comments:
Okay, first off, used condoms gross/freak me out even if they are from my own exploits... not so much immediately afterward, but once they're cold - gag me!!!
We had a giant shower room like that in the hostel in Berlin, and I kinda liked it. For some reason, it felt less like a shared and potentially dirty space just because it was bigger... like no sketchy shower curtain touching my arm or ass when I turn around, etc. The logistics of fucking in such a place are intriguing, I must say... perhaps alarming if you consider the fact that they may have just given in and laid (I should say 'lain,' right? But that feels weird) down on the floor, which was probably at LEAST moist from the previous user... and COLD!
But kudos to whomever these crazy kids are for getting some road lovin'. You can't beat it - especially if it's international.
Ah, the uncomfortable and slightly gross things we will do for/during sex just so that it will happen... all I can think of is red mud, but I am not going to elaborate... at least not right this second...
Once they're cold? OK that may be the grossest mental image I have ever had...and I have spent the last three days in BERLIN, where gross mental images aren't necessary. EW!
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