Day 121
Location 21: Skopje, Macedonia
Mar. 1, 2023
Today happened to be the 11th anniversary of my hostel's inception (here, inception means when it opened, and not when the hostel planted a thought in someone else's brain. For more info on that type of inception, click here). To celebrate, we cracked open a few bottles of СКОПСКО, a beer aptly pronounced "skope-sko" as a reference to the city we were drinking in.
With the potential for the party to get out of hand, the hostel was prepared with signs like the one below.
Like a bizarro version of "please don't touch" sign" next to a painting, this sign warns bathroom goers not to sculpt their feces into perfectly symmetrical cubes before dropping them into the toilet. (No. Due to finicky plumbing, it requests all toilet paper be discarded in the garbage. That said, it's safe to say the former behavior would also be frowned upon).
Things did end up getting out of hand, though. At one point, a girl accidentally cut her hand on a broken glass bottle of СКОПСКО and subsequently dripped some blood onto the table we were eating from. Luckily, the hostel had planned ahead and put down these absorbent pads on the table to—in this case—soak up the blood. I don't know what you'd call these things, but as you can see below, the brand was "maxi".
