Bawal Umihi Dito 4

The tourist areas may be cesspools but the entire country is a public urinal.

Walking the Dogs and the Little Girl

I was taking the dogs out for their usual walk on a very hot afternoon. Three dogs at one time. Looks intimidating to some even though they are not mean dogs. Up ahead I saw an older lady and a young child walking towards me. As I approached them, though still more than 100 yards away, they veered out of my path and onto the sidewalk. 

I thought for sure they were just trying to get out of the way of me and the dogs but lo and behold the child, a girl, pulls her pants down, squats, and does her business right in broad daylight. She did not even bother to go further into the woods or behind a tree or at least off the sidewalk. Instead she did her business plainly and openly without shame for all the world to see.

Dried up little girl piss

I eventually made my way to the spot where she stopped to piss and seeing her mark was peeved that I did not bring my camera. So I finished walking the dogs and returned with my camera only just in time as the proof was nearly evaporated in the heat of the afternoon sun.

What makes this incident all the more baffling and stupid is that the old lady and the child live in a house not far from where they stopped. Maybe 300 yards? Not far really. Maybe less than that. Instead of instructing the girl to hold it until they got home she allowed her to piss openly and in public. 

In this case it is very tempting to think about Freud's anal stage of psychosexual development and speculate that this little girl will grow up to have an anal-expulsive personality. But really it's probably a lot more simple than that.

In the Philippines if you gotta go, go!

Bawal Umihi Dito 3

Pissing in public.  Part 3.

A little shaky and blurry. Never forget to shake! 

Just finishing up

Bawal Umihi Dito 2

It's pee-pee time! They don't do this in Singapore! 

Bawal Umihi Dito 1

Bawal Umihi Dito!!!!!

That means: "Don't piss here."  Public urination is a problem here in the Philippines. Men, and also women but not as often, simply turn towards a wall or walk towards a bush and start pissing whenever they feel the urge to go.  What a public health nuisance.  It is impossible to take a picture of a smell so look a these photos and just imagine the horrid, overpowering stench of urine after it has been drying on the sidewalk in the sun.

Dried urine on the sidewalk

Gross!  It might not be so bad if these guys pissed in the dirt since the urine would be absorbed into the earth instead of just sitting there stinking up the area. Its not enough that there are literally packs of roaming stray dogs fouling up the roads and sidewalks but grown men are also acting like dogs and pissing wherever they please.

This will be the first of many posts dedicated to documenting this phenomena of public urination in the Philippines.