Dear Queenie,
The other day I looked out the window and saw the man who cleans my yard urinating against one of my trees. He didn’t even have the decency to turn his back to the house, but of course, if he had he would have been facing the street, although there is a fence and the tree would have been between him and anyone on the street.
I don’t speak his language and he doesn’t seem to understand mine (I explain what I want him to do with signs and gestures), so there was no way for me to reprimand him about this, but it reminded me about something someone told me when I first came to the island.
They said it was not illegal for a man to urinate in public on the French side as long as he did not shake his penis afterwards to get rid of the last drop of urine.
Queenie, is that true?—Curious
Dear Curious,
I have heard the same story. I don’t know if it is true. You would have to ask a Gendarme or a lawyer on the French side. Maybe one of them will be kind enough to write to me and set the record straight.
However, legal or not, it seems to me that such behaviour is certainly uncouth, not to mention unsanitary!
