So I had 3 guys stay with me from South Korea for 3 nights. The stay was fine, the guys were very polite and were touring a lot of the local colleges here in Philly. When they left I went up to clean the room and the bathroom was a disaster. There was water every where and hair and dirt. I picked up the bath mat and water streamed off of it, not dripped but streamed. I had to put it in the tub and run water over it and it took almost a full minute for the water to staop running dirt brown from off the bath mat. It looked loike these guys were standing on the bath mat and taking a shower but there is an actual showere right there. Anyway so I was irate! I messaged them and asked if anything had happened like a flood or overflow as the bathroom was full of water and hair and dirt. So they messaged me back and said nothing happened they just had a hard time understanding exactly how to work the indoor plumbing, that they thought there was a drain in the floor and that what they had back home was completely different from here. So that immedialtely squashed my anger, I couldn't imagine not having proper indoor plumbing. I don't think they were being rude or dirty I believe it is just a cultural difference and a bit of confusion at something different than what they are used to. I was actually pretty amazed and it made me think, again, how different life could be in another country. Has anyone else had something happen that was a total culture difference thing?
