When walking down the street you will encounter poop. It is a fact of life, and there is nothing that can be done about. While true in any country, here in China it is a bit different. Every time I see one of those familiar little piles I have to wonder to myself if this is human or animal feces. Parents let and sometimes encourage their children to pee and poop in the street. I have seen this numerous times now and its not just on the side streets, often it is on main roads directly on the sidewalk in view of traffic. One time I saw a women encouraging her child to pee in a Walmart. In a Walmart! This is mostly smaller children, toddler sized, although once a kid that must have been about 5 years old was pooping on a newspaper. The fact that I most surprising to me about all of this is that they don’t try to get out of the way at all, or go in an alley or a less trafficked street. Just directly in front of you, pee and poop. That is why if there is one piece of advice that I can give to someone that is thinking about traveling to China it is this: avoid the puddles.

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