Flushin' Roulette

Another five days in Quito, another five days of Flushin' Roulette.  That is the game we play every time we go to the bathroom.  At the risk of taking this blog further into the toilet, the game works like this.

Step #1: Go to the bathroom.

Step #2: Flush toilet.

Step #3: Hope everything disappears - realizing that paper is never tossed in the toilet here or you are an automatic loser.

Now then, here is when the game gets really interesting.  After one person plays, it is the next person's turn.  And the fact that one person survived the flush means that the next person is playing with what you might call a "loaded chamber" - if you know what we mean.  

Just like a pistol has only six chambers, you can only play "Flushin' Roulette" a few times before switching rooms or finding new locations to try your luck.  That said, changing rooms often means you are joining a "game" in progress.  Just today, we inadvertently checked into a room in which the last resident was clearly a big loser as there was plenty of "water" on the floor of the bathroom and the toilet didn't even flush.  Needless to say, we had to switch locales quickly.