Use

I´m convinced that all the dollar bills the US government has deemed unsuitable for circulation & use in the US end up here in Ecuador. The typical dollar is almost brown from so much use, having been green a mere memory for the bill. I had a brand new Sacagawea dollar coin earlier, paid for my breakfast with it and the waiter told me the couldn´t accept it. I knew it was brand new, but I don´t think he´d ever seen one & thought it was counterfeit. Crazy huh? They´re so used to worn in bills and coins that fresh ones are suspect.

Ok, let´s talk about bathrooms. I´m not sure anyone really wants to read this, but it´s certainly been an intersting phenomenon for me. Few toilets here have seats, meaning if you do sit, you sit on the rim of the actual toilet. And even fewer have toilet paper for that matter. You definitely have to plan ahead here. And also, you cannot dispose of any paper of any sort in the toilet. Now that´s a hard habit to break, let me tell you. If you do, you are contaminating the water somehow. So there are trash bins in every bathroom for disposal of all paper. Scary thought to imagine that the paper is worse than whatever else may have been put in there...