Bidet story - usually when we see a free-standing bidet in a hotel, it’s right next to the toilet, allowing one to make their deposit in the toilet, then gracefully hop onto the bidet to clean up.

Not so at our hotel in Rome. The bathroom, for whatever reason, was cavernous (about the size of my living room here in the US!), and would you believe, the bidet was diagonally as far away from the toilet as mathematically possible?

The result was that in order to use the bidet in the traditional manner, one had to do a sort of Chuck Berry duck walk across the expanse between the toilet and the bidet.

Of course, I could have just cleaned myself the US way, then calmly walked to the bidet, but that’s not the point. Why’s the bidet all the way over there?!