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Beakybird

(3,333 posts) Sat Mar 21, 2020, 08:49 PM Mar 2020

There are many leaves in the forest. Putting toilet paper in perspective.

In the 1980's I was in a remote and tiny Indian village in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. Most of the inhabitants spoke limited Spanish with a Zacotec accent.

I had to go number two really bad, and I asked a man in the village about a bathroom. He took me behind the row of houses that comprised the village and pointed me to the immense forest. Desperate to relieve myself, I asked about toilet paper. He replied with laconic wisdom, "There are many leaves in the forest."

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There are many leaves in the forest. Putting toilet paper in perspective. (Original Post) Beakybird Mar 2020 OP

The trees around me are all pines intrepidity Mar 2020 #1

You made me SNORT! dchill Mar 2020 #2

many leaves in the forest handmade34 Mar 2020 #3

Leaves three, quickly flee. Girard442 Mar 2020 #4

... Major Nikon Mar 2020 #5

That's called a Trump Taco Blue Owl Mar 2020 #6

The versatile tortilla. Beakybird Mar 2020 #7

intrepidity

(7,307 posts)

1. The trees around me are all pines

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Sat Mar 21, 2020, 08:51 PM

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dchill

(38,505 posts)

2. You made me SNORT!

Reply to intrepidity (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 21, 2020, 08:53 PM

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handmade34

(22,756 posts)

3. many leaves in the forest

Reply to Beakybird (Original post)

Sat Mar 21, 2020, 08:55 PM

Mar 2020

...some poison ivy, some bug laden, some covered with fungus, some with spiky things, some...……………….

been there, done that enough times to always carry some sort of tissue, cloths, etc. with me when out

a genital rash is no fun