Squat Toilet

[Concerned American]

A tangent, if you please. When I was in Vietnam, I saw for the first time groups of men hanging around on street corners squatted down, feet flat on the ground, perfectly comfortable doing that for long periods. I thought, Damn, I couldn't do that even for a minute.

But if you were comfortable squatting like that, a squat toilet would be no problem.

I can't say why, don't remember, but that squat was my preferred way of sitting as a child and even now in my mid 70s I can still do it. LOL, seating on the furniture was reserved for adults in our house. If there was room we got to sit on the couch.