Gaijin!: Nam versus the Japanese Toilet

The toilets in Japanese are stupidly sophisticated at times, what with integrated bidets, musical buttons to allow discrete excretion, seat warmers and automatic seat opening. However, attached with this sophistication is a great deal unnecessary complication.

In one such restaurant, I was trying to figure out how to flush the toilet having done my business. I consequently stood up and started tampering with some of the buttons on the electrical panel beside the toilet. I of course managed to press one of the bidet/spray buttons and consequently, as no derrière was in place to shield the room from the water, it sprayed right into the room and into my face.

Cue some Fawlty Towers farcical humour as I try to switch off the unintended spray-age and trying not to re-emerge into the restaurant as a drowned rat.