Well luckily for the rest of the US, we don't have those "18-wheelers with great big long trailers" that would never be able to negotiate our roundabouts.

That's probably because you don't have any food outlets bigger than AM/PM stores nor Sam's Clubs, Costcos or other sizeable retail stores so no need for large Freightliners to be driving on surface streets

I have passed through Miss. Stayed in Natchez a couple of nights. Lots of Dollar Stores, Thrift Stores and gas station snack outlets so I understand your response very well

US and Canadian toilet paper...don't get me started.

I'll just say that whatever the shortcomings of US and Canadian toilet paper are, public toilets at least provide bum gaskets, something I haven't seen in other parts of the world.

Now you've got me started

What is a bum gasket?

My name for those large round tissues with holes in the center that you place on toilet seats. They even double up for face and hand wipes when the damned paper towel dispensers are empty

Toilet seat covers are a brownie point for the US and Canada.

That is simple and clear to understand.

The California toll roads I am familiar with in the San Diego area have 24/7 tolls, but the tolls are easily avoided.

The South Bay Expressway is tolled but there are free alternatives via other freeways and surface streets.

I-15 express lanes have a toll but the following are exempt and can use the lanes free of charge.

"Carpoolers, vanpoolers, public transit vehicles, motorcyclists and those driving permitted clean air vehicles can use the lanes for free."

Really only ones who have to pay the express lane tolls on I-15 are solo drivers who can pay 50 cents to 8 dollars depending on distance traveled to avoid congestion.



Can't say about the rest of Canada but toilet seat covers are a rare find in BC public toilets, but go into WA state and nearly every single public toilet has them.

When i see a clean toilet those toilet seat covers just scream that you're ass isn't even clean enough before you sit down?

Was it the US or Canada that invented the padded toilet seat? I hear some are even heated and greatly cut down on the pins and needles after too long on the throne.

I don't like the idea of a padded toilet seat. The padding is probably porous so god knows what it absorbs.

They're universal in California. Kind of make up for the wimpy toilet paper you have to struggle to get out of those metallic holders in public toilets

Or toilet seat covers either. Yuck!

If a toilet seat 'looks' clean and is dry why would you bother with the paper thing? What does it matter if the skin around your bum touches germs? What do you do with that bit of skin that warrants it being kept germ free?

Because something that "looks" clean might be far from it.

The paper "thing" is probably unnecessary, but then again so is a car seat belt. In around 450,000 miles as a driver (and probably another 100,000 as a passenger) I have never once needed the protection of a seat belt, and yet I strap myself in every time I get into a car, and I always have. When a paper thing is available I always use one.

I haven't yet got around to buying a supply of paper things, but I have been meaning to do so.