Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Bottom left corner.


Uh oh.....


Busted.

Not that it matters in Tirana.

"There are only two public toilets in the whole city!" Ilir explained when I showed him my photos of a young Gypsy boy taking a dump at a bus stop, with people all around, on the cement, in the middle of the afternoon (waaaaaay too graphic to post on my blog, since my mom got mad about my Peengapore story...). "Two! How crazy is that? So where are people supposed to go? You have to pay a euro, or buy a coffee if you want to use the toilets in a cafe."

Well... this spot under the bridge seemed pretty popular.


During the course of his session, not one, but two other guys came up, went No. 1 alongside their boy, didn't bat an eye, probably even said, "What up, Suad," and went back up the hill.

And to prove my point that "Borat" actually took its inspiration more from Balkan life than Kazakh culture (for example, the village scenes were filmed in Romania), the man was prescient enough to carry a plastic shopping bag with him.


Very nice!
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