In an attempt to lose weight, I have been on a new food and exercise regimen that includes a large percentage of fiber in my diet. As a result of said diet, when it's time to go, it's time to go.
While at work last week, I had a sudden and urgent need to unload -- but I had no relief to let me leave my desk. When my team's relief came to work an hour-and-a-half late, I found my chance and headed to the restrooms that are just outside the door to our work area. The men's restrooms in our building are shared by hundreds of people from several companies and many different types of jobs. I work in IT; some of the guys I work with are upwards of three hundred pounds. This particular restroom is right near the loading dock, so nerds and blue-collar workers alike share this three-toilet dream palace.
As I opened the first stall, I noticed immediately the toilet paper graveyard that used to be a toilet bowl. "There's no way that'll flush," I thought, and moved to the next stall.
In the second stall I discovered the most ghastly, disgusting, disturbing-yet-hilarious thing I have ever seen. I would have to describe it as something that came from an elephant with a bleeding hemorrhoid. I have never seen a turd so large come from a human being. I could tell right away why it was still in the bowl -- it was literally too big around to fit through the toilet drain! The water was a mixture of yellow and red, which means that not only did someone have trouble forcing it out of his body, but he also had trouble getting it disposed of without something to break it up with. "There's no way that'll flush," I thought, and moved on to the third stall.
With great surprise I found in the third stall something less solid than the last. There before me was Mount Shart: a small hill of half-liquid doo doo butter whose "peak" actually rose a couple of inches out of the water, its base covering eight-inches diameter at the bottom and completely blocking the drain.
"There's no way that'll flush," I thought, and went into a panic. Still being more than a couple of hours overdue for an unloading, I booked it to the west end of the building only to find that the cleanest facilities in our building were under daily maintenance. With Turd Ferguson on my tail (literally), I quickly made my way to the east lobby, taking great care not to unclench my butt cheeks. When I arrived at THOSE bathrooms, I did make it in, and I found an empty stall.
After the business was done and I was washing my hands, I noticed that a co-worker was coming out of the stall next to me. A female co-worker! Apparently her adventures with some unpleasant women's restrooms and routine maintenance had led her to the same exact place. The funny thing is that she didn't realize the men's restroom she invaded in her pee-panic also doubles as the men's locker room for our on-site gym. She was forced to hide inside her stall with the door locked due to the men coming in to shower -- the last thing she wanted to do was walk out of the stall and be eye-to-eye with a nude male coworker. She felt it was safe to come out only when she recognized me through the cracks in the stall; she told me her story on the way back to our work area.
Three turds and a lady!
I wish I could have gotten a picture of that bleeding elephant turd.