Paying to Pee

Bathrooms in Italy are a challenge for Americans. You have to figure out if the flusher is a wall-mount flat panel, a pushbutton, or a foot lever. The flat panel flushers are easy. The push buttons can be really hard. Thank God I'm flexible enough to put my foot 3 feet up on the wall to push the damn thing in--one was way too hard to push with just my hand. Same issue with the sinks. How do you turn on the faucet? Some have sensors, some have knobs, some have foot levers. It's a game to figure out which it is and we spent a lot of time looking around every bathroom we were in. Then the big issue: paying to pee. What a racket! We want to open public pay toilets in the US. Most toilets cost .50 to 1 Euro. It's not cheap! There were a few places without attendants and one where we could squeeze past the turnstile--what a bargain! We were happy on those occasions when we got a free pee.