things that drive me crazy

Yesterday I went with my boyfriend to Pizza Hut... before the food came I decided to go to the toilet. The toilet was occupied - one single room with toilet, sink and mirror. Mind I am usually rather patient and polite girl. Within the 10 min of waiting, the anger slowly rose in me to such level that I actually furiously knocked on the door to remind the girl inside that there are others who might want to use the toilet (I never do such things). Some more minutes later I went to the male's toilet. You might say I should have gone straight away to the other toilet but being in Egypt I wanted to be bit culturally sensitive.. but this girl obviously was not sensitive at all to my needs so who cares...

And this leads to my complete astonishment when it comes to girls in Egypt and public toilets. Few weeks ago we were in the cinema and I went to the toilet afterwards. In my country, the toilets are always full, here I found hardly anyone actually using the toilets.. yeay, I thought, how cool, no need to stay in the line. Well, to my astonishment I waited in the crowd later on when I wanted to wash my hands and could not pass through the bunch of girls (read 30 in 3 square metres area) packed around the sinks, staring into the mirrors, correcting their make-up, retying their veils... I was shocked as I had to literally PUSH through them to get to the sink.

I would never think that this is where the cultural differences lie...