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KuwYoto

An ephemeral yet memorable Kuwaiti honeymoon in Japan

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Aziz Alangari
Aug 17, 2024
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A newlywed Kuwaiti couple goes to Japan for their honeymoon. They check in to one of the most expensive hotels in Kyoto and just as soon as they walked into their suite, nature had called the wife. She told her husband that she needed to “wash her face” but what she really needed was to unload a ‘number two’ after their 20-hour Qatar Airways journey. 

She does the job, but the toilet seat doesn’t. Scrambling in multiple failed attempts to fix the toilet, she tried her best to prevent the odor from extending beyond the confines of the bathroom and into the bedroom, where her new rich and handsome husband was waiting for her. There’s no way this man will know I just took a shit on the first night of our honeymoon, she insisted. And so she tries to get creative. 

Looking through the bathroom, seeing if there’s anything she can work with, she took a medium sized towel cloth and picked up her own turd directly out of the toilet seat before throwing it out the window. She feels relieved. The piece of shit is gone, and her hubby will never know. It all happened so fast and hastily that it almost felt like dismembering a dead body. Deep down, she did feel some level of guilt and that she did something wrong, but nonetheless chose to suppress her gut feeling and move on with her life.

The couple go out to a nice Japanese dinner and spend a romantic time in Kyoto. Love is in the air. He likes her but she likes him even more, thus won’t allow anything or anyone to fuck this up for her. 

They arrive back at the hotel to a group of police officers and Japanese special agents, in what seemed like an investigation of an incident that had happened at the hotel while they were gone. Before going up to their room, they were called for questioning. The agent speaks to the confused Kuwaiti husband while the wife is in an extreme state of anxiety and disbelief, still choosing to suppress how she

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