Showing posts with label toilet paper shortage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label toilet paper shortage. Show all posts

08 August 2009

Cuba Running Out of Toilet Paper.

Reuters.

It's "back to the future" in Cuba...using the Communist Party daily newspaper "Granma"...as toilet paper!

In 1997, I was visiting a friend in Santa Clara. He was a full professor of Engineering at the University of Santa Clara..and his monthly salary was about...$11 USD per month!

I especially remember his casa's bathroom. It was DISGUSTING! But not by choice. You had to fill a bucket to flush the toilet...and the only choice for toilet paper was using strips of the newspaper "Granma."

After that trip, I always remembered to buy half a dozen rolls of the plushest toilet paper I could find...to use...and give away as gifts.