Is it true that a person should not flush toilet paper down toilets in the DR?

augustus

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When visiting Dr, I find it hard to use a small trash can in the bathroom, but visitors down there find it hard to throw it in the toilet, because I have found used paper behind my toilet. Now the toilet systems or sewer systems in the US are designed for the paper to go in the toilet with some areas and modern developements having two sets of pipes in the ground, one for waste and the other for rain water and in some of the foreign restaurants, Mexican, Vietnamies, Columbian etc. , provide a waste basket next to the toilet, which is probably unknown to local government or possibly ignored. But even though I explain it to my foreign friends here, they find it hard to accept, the same as I find it hard to accept there. Here in Phila. I repair and replace sewer systems from the house into the main street.
 

augustus

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A friend that I met in Santo Domingo told me he uses his left hand and told me to try it when I stayed at his Motel, until this day I don't know if he was serious ?????????
 

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A friend that I met in Santo Domingo told me he uses his left hand and told me to try it when I stayed at his Motel, until this day I don't know if he was serious ?????????

Why do you think in some cultures it's a no no to eat with your left hand? :laugh:

Some places in the world are so destitute that toilet paper is an unattainable luxury.
 

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As in a lot of country of latin america, you can find a basket for toilet paper because of a lot of reasons. But don't worry, a lot of people is used to flush the paper. Anyway, it is very very slim in DR ;)
 
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It is just a matter of preference. I have been to many houses in the DR and the US and some have a wastebasket for the toilet paper and some don't. The women rolling the toilet paper around their hand is true because I used to do it when I was younger. LOL.