Japanese toilets

Felt super corny about revealing my birthday to those guys at the Irish pub. It sounded like a desperate cry for attention, but it had to be done. It was my 25th birthday for God's sake!

Went running this morning, stopped by the toilet in Shinjuku central park to shit, but the sight of the squadder without toilet paper turned me back immediately.

Returned to the hotel, went to the bathroom in the basement restaurant/bar area. For some reason I simply couldn't get in to any of the stalls. Either all of the stalls were occupied and locked (in which case it must've been a horrible experience for the person(s) on the other side of the stalls, given my knocking, kicking and prying), or there's some sort of key/lock mechanism that I couldn't figure out. A kid pissing in the kiddie urinal was looking back at me the whole time, wonder what he was thinking.

The bathroom in the lobby were unlocked, and the stalls were wide open. I gladly entered and took care of business. Just as the toilet in my hotel room, these big guys have all sorts of buttons on the side, in an electronic biday/toilet combination. After the busines was taken care of, I fiddled around for at least 2 minutes to flush the toilet in vain. Minutes later, I realized that the flush didn't work because the toilet wasn't plugged in.