Few items of European culture give Americans more trouble that the bidet. It is pronounced: bid and add the Aussie way of saying day as in, “good day” and you have
bid day. I need to stress that this is not a urinal. Lastly harm will be done to Euro zone, American relations if you piss in the bid day. No blue nasty smelling pellet: no urinal.
Further, in no way suggest that Europeans need the bid day because they take fewer baths than Americans.
You will be required to confront the bid day in every bathroom you enter. Do not use it! When you do not understand something: leave it a lone. We have used our bid day for various purposes.
Hold the towel while taking a bath
Water the plants
Keeping cleaning supplies off the floor so no scorpions can crawl underneath.
I researched many videos on U-tube with no success as to the meaning of this porcelain jewel. I saw many people, fully clothed, sitting on their bid day. I learned to never use the towel which is always hanging, purely for decorative purposes, besides the bidet.
From my research I have concluded that the bid day is a place to sit and chat while someone else, hopefully a close personal friend, either uses the toilet or takes a bath.
I will admit it is not a comfortable seat, but what price friendship? Clearly the bid day was made to fit into the whole porcelain decor of most bathroom. I do believe they also come in stainless steel for a more modern look.
If you only learn one thing from this post it is do not mistake a bid day for a urinal and do not try to use it or the towel hung, strangely, near by. If you feel you know the true meaning of bid day, please keep those thoughts to yourself. This is a family blog.
Laundry
Laundry, especially the hanging of underwear at street level, has been discussed last year, but new things on the subject have come to my attention. Any Italian housewife worthy of the name will have laundry hanging daily before the sun is over the mountains. If you would like to fit in, you will also hang laundry out everyday early till late. What is the point of a million dollar view if you can not have laundry hanging in front of it? Who has time to sit down anyway? There are floors to be surged, washing to be done, every kitchen appliance to clean weekly and possibly daily.
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| Fake Laundry With View. |
Clothes barely count in this wash race. No, you need to be able to hang a variety of blankets, sheets, towels and rugs daily. Each should make a minimum appearance of once a week.
If you cannot keep up with this amount of laundry: you will need fake laundry. You don’t really have to wash it, especially if you are on the second floor. You only need to hang it. A discrete pile consisting of a sheet, a blanket, you won’t be using that anyway, two towels and a couple of throw rugs and your reputation will be made. If you feel like washing, a wet sheet makes a great sun block on these hot days. Unfortunately all this washing you will never see the view from your terrace. It means your clothes will be thin and faded from the sun. This makes them better suited to the hot weather. It is win win.
Mass or coffee
Some people, mostly women in black, go to mass everyday. Some people mostly men, go to the coffee bar everyday, possibly all day. Mass is only 30 minutes and those women had stuff to do. The men, possibly, do not.
We also make our pilgrimage to the coffee bar daily. This is our favorite bar: Al’kafhe. All summer this was the first day it was not to busy to take a photograph. I keep hoping to do a Manet rip off photo, but this is the best I have managed. We lurk at the bar while Salvatore makes a great cup of coffee.
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