The sewers are so bad in Mexico one doesn’t dare put any paper down the toilet. They just wipe their arse and toss it in the garbage. If no garbage they just toss it on the floor.
It can get pretty sick around South San Diego if not Tijuana itself.
“It can get pretty sick around South San Diego if not Tijuana itself.”
I lived in Imperial Beach, CA from 1980-’82, two minutes from Tijuana. I can testify!
“The sewers are so bad in Mexico one doesn’t dare put any paper down the toilet. They just wipe their arse and toss it in the garbage. If no garbage they just toss it on the floor.”
So true. And Mexicans do not restrict or limit their sanitary behavior once they are out of Mexico.
When my father was in the hospital in Southern California, dying, there was a family of Mexicans in the waiting room, there for one of their relatives, I assume. Public bathrooms were about fifty feet away, and were clearly marked, in English and Spanish. However, that meant nothing to these folks, as they changed the shitty pants of their kids right there in the waiting room and simply dumped the soiled and offensive diapers in the waiting room waste baskets. They thought nothing of it.
I live in a semi-rural area that is not infested with too many illegals, so I was not prepared for this charming cultural practice when we traveled to NYC 2 years ago. Could not believe the piles of used toilet paper on the floor. And I am an old woman who need to make frequent potty breaks.
Perhaps it would help if the poor individuals who have to clean up this disgusting mess posted signs in Spanish explaining that it is perfectly okay to flush the paper.