OK this is a little OT but this thread reminded me of two stories;
1) A friend of mine is a plumber by trade but now off the tools and working for a property company doing property management stuff.
He was out one night at a typically rough Glasgow Rangers supporters pub that the company he works for maintains and went to answer the call of nature. While hes in the toilet he noticed that there was some plumbing that needed attention so to remind himself in the morning he, without thinking of the consequences, whips out his digital camera to take a couple of photos of the offending pipe-work.
Needless to say it is not proper etiquette to start snapping away in the gents.
I wonder how hell word the insurance claim for his camera?
2) My first visit to the US in 1994 en route from LAX to Las Vegas we stopped for a burger at (IIRC) an In and Out.
Having enjoyed some reformed potato-based side and burger I went to the toilet.
I walked through the door needing to make considerable use of the facilities ,as only a 12hr flight in economy followed by an hour or so in a rental car and a meal at the In and Out can make you need the loo, only to be faced with the traditional mens room scene of a row of urinals down one side, with a couple of guys making use, and a row of toilets down the other.
Now the odd, and to me alarming, thing was that although there was a row of four toilets there were no stalls!😱 Just three vacant toilets and one large American taking a dump while reading the newspaper (although I suspect he was not really reading it just using it to shield his face from the arse of the guy using the urinal three feet in front of him).
This was one of my first impressions of the US and one Ill never forget it.