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bathroom lines

October 20, 2006 at 7:25 pm · Filed under random

We get to the Shanghai airport, and after standing in line for 1.5 hours waiting to get through immigration, I have to go to the bathroom. Lo and behold, there is a line to the women’s bathroom. Why is it that no matter where in the world you go, there is always a line to the women’s bathroom?

The men’s room was free as a bird.

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thallreader wrote @ October 20th, 2006 at 8:23 pm

Somehow I guessed you were a Shanghaier.
1.5 hours through immigration? Red passport?

Shan wrote @ October 21st, 2006 at 5:26 am

i’m actually not a shanghaier … i just fly into shanghai, and we have to drive another 4 hours to get to my hometown :)

i have a blue passport, but pudong airport had a ton of flights all land at the same time, and the lines were not really moving. a red passport would have actually been faster b/c the line for China Nationals was much much shorter

thallreader wrote @ October 21st, 2006 at 5:53 pm

Ah, my bad. Ningbo? Am I moving in the right geographical direction? :)

So it has gotten better with the lines for Chinese nationals. I hear people say you can get in any line despite what the signs say. I’ve never tried it myself.

Shan wrote @ October 24th, 2006 at 8:58 am

hmm … i actually don’t know where ningbo is :) my chinese geography is really bad. is ningbo part of the 沪宁高速? but i thought somebody told me that “ning” stood for 南京? it’s all very confusing to me …

i’m from 镇江, of vinegar fame

thallreader wrote @ October 24th, 2006 at 1:29 pm

Ok, yeah so I was going the wrong direction (south). I have a good friend from 镇江 and of course everybody has 镇江 vinegar :)

thallreader wrote @ October 29th, 2006 at 10:55 pm

Wow, just read this. Toxic styrene spill just south of Zhenjiang on the 28th.

http://www.yangtse.com/pub/yzweb/dzbpd/shsh/t20061029_180043.htm