New member of the family
"You want what ?" said Earl. Having gotten used to the amount of s*!@t I usually get from him*, "A bidet", I replied. And so the story begins. A few months before, our Thai housemate relayed a conversation between he and his mother, my friend. "Why don't Tammy and Earl use a bidet?" she inquired. I later explained to Jack that in fact, people from the US are accustomed to using toilet paper. Free-standing bidets here are often equated with affluence. Not so elsewhere in the world. I knew that bidets are more commonly seen in Europe, but didn't realize how much of the world uses them. I remember traveling through Europe as a junior in high school with a large group. That was my first sighting of a bidet. This group of girls had no idea what it was for. We thought it was a foot bath. I can only imagine that the French girls thought we were rude, ignorant, or just crazy. At any rate, the more I read and thought about it, the more I wanted o