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Israeli Hospitality Flaw
Jul. 10th, 2009 11:47 amI haven't written much, and there are several reasons for that:
However, I have got a few posts' worth of material simmering on back burners, such as the fact that Israelis all talk at once, and I was raised not to interrupt. When I do have something to say, I tend to shush people who try to interject before I'm done. I'm sure that makes me the Ugly American, but I can't keep my thoughts coherent during those everybody-yammering sessions.
In my darker moments, I believe that they can't keep their thoughts coherent either.
But mostly, Israeli hospitality has been quite nice. They've helped me out at meals, translating and defining certain dishes, and I've tried to be experimental. They learned early on that I like spicy food, so now they try to steer me toward it. All. The. Time.
However, there's one bit that both of the hotels I've stayed at have gotten totally wrong:
The Shower Curtain.
My business hosts tell me that they all have shower doors (y'know, of glass) at home, and those make perfect sense. But both hotels have had shower curtains, and the curtains are billowy cloth, and the curtains are rigged to stay outside the tub while I shower. This nullifies the point of shower curtains, which is to keep the water inside the tub.
And the billowy cloth means that EACH AND EVERY SHOwER has been me wrestling with the curtain to keep it from wrapping itself around me. The stream of the shower has (so far) kept the curtain from getting on the wrong side of the shower head, but I have yet to shower here without a large wet drape laminating itself to my legs, back, or even face.
Still, the bathrooms do have drains in the floor here, even in the nice hotels. Perhaps they expect lots of water to come out of the shower.
Obviously, this is a country which does not have much of a mold problem.
- I don't have internet access until I get back to the hotel after work. That's right, I'm at a business partner company which is high tech and does not allow access to the internet.
- That's because their work, and the work I'm doing here, is highly confidential. As in, I had to get a government security clearance to do this work.
- And I take it seriously. So a lot of what I'm doing, I can't tell you.
However, I have got a few posts' worth of material simmering on back burners, such as the fact that Israelis all talk at once, and I was raised not to interrupt. When I do have something to say, I tend to shush people who try to interject before I'm done. I'm sure that makes me the Ugly American, but I can't keep my thoughts coherent during those everybody-yammering sessions.
In my darker moments, I believe that they can't keep their thoughts coherent either.
But mostly, Israeli hospitality has been quite nice. They've helped me out at meals, translating and defining certain dishes, and I've tried to be experimental. They learned early on that I like spicy food, so now they try to steer me toward it. All. The. Time.
However, there's one bit that both of the hotels I've stayed at have gotten totally wrong:
The Shower Curtain.
My business hosts tell me that they all have shower doors (y'know, of glass) at home, and those make perfect sense. But both hotels have had shower curtains, and the curtains are billowy cloth, and the curtains are rigged to stay outside the tub while I shower. This nullifies the point of shower curtains, which is to keep the water inside the tub.
And the billowy cloth means that EACH AND EVERY SHOwER has been me wrestling with the curtain to keep it from wrapping itself around me. The stream of the shower has (so far) kept the curtain from getting on the wrong side of the shower head, but I have yet to shower here without a large wet drape laminating itself to my legs, back, or even face.
Still, the bathrooms do have drains in the floor here, even in the nice hotels. Perhaps they expect lots of water to come out of the shower.
Obviously, this is a country which does not have much of a mold problem.
