{"id":145,"date":"2010-03-26T18:40:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T17:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2010-03-26T19:06:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:06:01","slug":"invalid-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/invalid-toilet\/","title":{"rendered":"Invalid Toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sign on the door of one of the cubicles in the men&#8217;s restroom (why is it called a restroom anyway? We don&#8217;t rest in there, we &#8220;drop something&#8221; &#8211; drop it like it&#8217;s hot) at PH International airport reads &#8220;INVALID TOILET&#8221;<br \/>\nSo politically incorrect! Is that not discrimination based on condition? Or is it affirmative or positive action?<br \/>\nOr let&#8217;s pretend not to know what the sign means and read it another way.<br \/>\nThe toilet being invalid.<br \/>\nSo what does that make the toilet and where does that leave us &#8211; the pressed, stamping-foot-in-place air traveller?<br \/>\nIf the toliet is invalid, does that mean for example that we can drink from it rather than &#8220;let-go&#8221; in it?<br \/>\nIs the toilet &#8220;ailing&#8221; or broken? If broken, why is it not fixed? Do we call for a medical doctor or a plumber?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSCF4940.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-146\" title=\"Invalid Toilet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSCF4940-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSCF4940-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSCF4940.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSCF4941.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-147\" title=\"Invalid Toilet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSCF4941-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSCF4941-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSCF4941.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/invalidtoilet3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-149\" title=\"Invalid Toilet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/invalidtoilet3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/invalidtoilet3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/invalidtoilet3.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It just goes to show I was jobless at the airport waiting for a flight.<br \/>\nA nice lady also came to offer me a chance to be massaged at &#8220;Tosan&#8217;s massage corner&#8221; &#8211; an electric massage chair. My colleague told her he is only interested in a massage delivered by a human being \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign on the door of one of the cubicles in the men&#8217;s restroom (why is it called a restroom anyway? We don&#8217;t rest in there, we &#8220;drop something&#8221; &#8211; drop it like it&#8217;s hot) at PH International airport reads &#8220;INVALID &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/invalid-toilet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}