When I lived in the Netherlands for 1.5years I came to realize that we Americans live too... well, we waste.

I mean they have few to no napkins on the table (my Dutch wife says: Well, be neater, eat slower, use your fork AND knife and you do not need them as much and that's probably better for the environment that all you people tout as such a big US-spearheaded effort)

they take shorter/faster/fewer showers (less water being used up, less time in there with less splatter, and everyone is thin, fit, fast moving and takes up less space to begin with)

and there just seems to be something about how water doesnt stick around as much... I mean people ride their bikes to work in drizzle wearing jeans but somehow they are not sticky wet all day in the office. Dunno why. I think the whole culture has some secret pumped in airborne chemical or something that makes all of these things just work. No one complains about pools of water on the floors of those bathrooms you have all probably seen where the tile is at the same level of the rest of the room and there's no divider... and yeah, shower curtains cant really even be found in the stores!

Weird!
Fergit it! I'm a 'Merkin too! Yee haw! Gimme my plastic moldy enclosure every day!



MM