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At 9PM we were being driven in a newly equipped minivan from Abu Dhabi to Western region in Ruwais. The education council wanted the teachers to be placed commuting distance to their school sites, Al Ain or Al Gharbia. I, the stateside foreigner, had been chugging water in response to arid desert climate, in response forces me to be on the lookout for bathrooms every known destination. SO, as we were travelling for hours and hours, I needed a bathroom break after two hours straight highway driving on the truck route E11. The driver was kind in response and says ok course. So, he pulls into a small well light station, only 9 men were inside a small glass front office/store. Out of the bus, my glasses immediately fogged over due to air conditioning to desert heat (oven like evening temperatures). I pulled glasses off my face, slowly stepped toward tower with women stick figure posted on door, misplaced my stepped and almost fell flat on face did not see step up to sidewalk. Ok, glasses clear, door on front me, and door handled locked. So, luckily some slender fast walking fast speaking with Pakistan accent, "Miss I will get for you." Ok, waited while sweating under lined pants and jacket style dress necessary for freezing van temperatures, keeping calm, I waited by this door and this man rushed over to unlocked this wooden door. I stepped inside ( then closed this door into) this hotter and blinding white tile, mostly coated white paint, fluorescent lite heat bin where there was no air circulation noticed by the blasting body odors which had overcome every pore and every sensory mode till I saw a white porcelain framed hole in the floor. I had to stand up to release my kidneys and could not bare the heated humid odor closer to me, and forced myself as fast as I could to finish my task and ran out of that closet size room. It was single digit number of degrees cooler outside the bathroom but felt like to needed to crawl to the van in order to make my getaway. And had done just that in order to resume our evening drive to relocate to Western region, Ruwais, Al Gharbia, Al Sila, UAE in the house! yeah-
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