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Celine Dion THE WRAP 4 | GZ | JUNE 2018 | WWW.THATSMAGS.COM Pen to Paper The winners of the That's PRD Writing Contest, p10 CITY City Snapshot SZUMMER Pride P8 P14 6 | GZ | JUNE 2018 | WWW.THATSMAGS.COM (WO)MAN ON THE STREET (WO)MAN THE DIRTY DETAILS QUEEN OF CLEAN Monthly income: RMB4,000 Of Mice and the Men’s Room Days per week: 6 By Matthew Bossons Hours per day: 12 ublic washrooms in China situation inside the lavatories is water pressure is often subpar, the washroom’s piping in the are by no means known grim. They’ve been unattended something she attributes to the evenings to scrounge for food. Pfor their ‘loiter-ability.’ since 11pm the night before, water consumption habits of the Wang tells us that the city Although we presume there are when Wang finished the folks in the apartments above the sanitation department has exceptions out there, they tend previous day’s 12-hour shift. public lavatory. provided her with poison to to smell bad (often a combo of (Wang enjoys a two-and-a-half- She muses aloud that her dispatch the rodent, but so far it human waste and burn-your- hour lunch and nap break). job would likely be easier with has failed to work. nostrils industrial cleaners) In her absence, human waste higher water pressure. “The poison is supposed to and the sight of a steaming and discarded sanitary pads When asked if she works be nontoxic and not dangerous pile of feces resting in an have festered, unchallenged, alone, Wang nods and tells to humans, which is good,” says unflushed squatty-potty is not all night long and the morning us that her job is a solo one. Wang. “The problem is it appears uncommon. stench is horrendous. Although she has regular visitors: the poison is not dangerous to For most, visiting a roadside With mop and bucket in men from a washroomless rats either.” public restroom is a trip that is hand, she sets to work cleaning. warehouse located nearby stop Like the stench and grime, only undertaken when ‘nature First it’s the men’s toilets, in often to use the facility, as though, the rat doesn’t appear calls’ and there are no other which, she tells us, are always well as boozers at a beer bottle to bother or disgust Wang in options within the immediate the dirtier of the two gender- shop across the road. There is the way one might assume. area. For others, a day spent at a segregated washrooms. After also a rat, who emerges from Maybe she has grown used to community toilet is just another that she tackles the women’s it, having previously worked on day on the job. side of the facility. the sanitation team in an office Ms.