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What Happened In Vegas

Posted 05.19.2006 by PINWORM (138)
My job requires that I go to Las Vegas at least once a month. Many people are jealous when I tell them this. Personally, I am not a big fan of the place. Let me apologize in advance to any PoopReporters who reside there or visit there and love it. I find Las Vegas to be inauthentic, insincere, and the biggest rip-off since the pet rock. The strip is wall-to-wall tourists and the outlying suburbs are rather bleak.

I am not a gambler in any sense. Once a month I go up there, check into one of the strip hotels, and spend the days covering the company's Vegas markets. I go back to the hotel and crash. No fun for me!

I was just there last week and believe me, if diarrhea were money, I would be the loosest slot around.

I was lucky enough to score a room at the Palms Casino and Resort at a rate I could justify to the bean-counters at corporate. I like the Palms. It caters to an adult crowd, so I didn't have to deal with the discount Vegas riffraff one finds at places like The Stratosphere, where the throngs of white trash country folk bring their kids into the casino. The Palms is expensive and has a rather erotic theme, which keeps the elderly gambling addicts away, too. The rooms are luxurious; the bed in mine was more comfy then the bed at home.

It was with much surprise, then, that when I ordered a thirty-dollar tuna fish sandwich from room service, I noticed a funny taste to it. I had gotten up that morning at four AM to catch my flight and had just finished eight hours at work; my judgment must have been shot, because I was hungry and tired and I just didn't have the sense to stop eating it. Fatigue can really be dangerous. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I considered that this sandwich might give me food poisoning -- but like a robot, I continued to eat it.

I felt fine until about noon the following day.

I was at work, simply walking along, when I started hearing disturbing sounds from my abdomen. Gurgles, whines, and pops seemed to be emanating from my belly as if my bowels were boiling water like a teakettle. I felt no cramps, which was good -- but I did feel a strange looseness in my intestines. I wasn't in panic mode, but I figured I should try and get to a toilet and offload the percolating tar in my colon.

I went to a men's room and was confronted with the last thing a person with fizzing internal liquishit wants to see: an "out of order" sign on the single crapper. The crapper was locked from the inside. I have no idea how they managed it, but they locked it tight.

My bowels are directly connected to my brain, so as soon as I read the sign and tried the door, the bubbly looseness in my guts instantly ramped up. I needed a toilet, fast! I quickly went through my options. I thought about crawling on the floor under the door and trying my luck with the broken toilet. I had no idea what condition the toilet was in. It could have been filled to the brim with the diarrhea of dozens of people; or it could be waterless altogether. Once I was done, though, I would have to deal with the workplace politics of having been the guy who decimated the toilet and would probably be obligated to fix it. I pictured myself red-faced and plunging.

I decided I would hit the street and try to find a nearby store with a toilet. I only hoped I could make it. In addition to feeling loose, my bowels now felt strangely hot. I was breaking out into a nauseated sweat. I hightailed it out of there into the ninety-nine-degree desert sun and saw a CompUSA store next door. I went inside and made a beeline for the toilet.

Unfortunately, there wasn't one. I am sure the staff had one somewhere in the back, but there was no toilet for customers. Damn.

My sphincter was starting to throb. I could literally feel the liquishit sloshing with every step. I left the store doing the duck walk. I could feel the staff giving me the fuzzy eyeball.

Next door to this place was a TJ Maxx. I went in and spied the customer washrooms. I had to run -- that, or subject the store to a fecal supernova.

I entered the most revolting washroom I had seen in a long time. There was shit on the stall walls, piss all over both toilet seats, and no paper towels. I sat my ass down on a pissy seat because I had no time to wipe it up and there were no ass-gaskets. I detonated my explosive diarrhea like a suicide bomber -- and I say "explosive" because it literally exploded out of my anus, splattering the walls of the bowl with hot, brown shrapnel. Foamy tuna-bile hosed out of my body and filled the air with a stink that frightened me. What was going on inside me to make such a stink? Wave after wave of this wretched foam sloshed out. I did a courtesy flush. Not a courtesy to anyone in the washroom, because I was alone -- no, just a self-courtesy flush.

I wiped up with the cheap toilet paper and left, feeling clammy and queasy. My guts were still making noise.

I had only been at work that day for three hours, but with a broken toilet and a scary case of the squirts, there was no way I was going to stick around. I wanted to get back to my hotel and stick close to my toilet-away-from-home. But this added another problem. You see, traffic in Las Vegas is terrible ALL the time, thanks to a rapidly growing population and roads littered with tourists in rental cars who have no idea where they are going. It would take me at least an hour to get back to my hotel, and I was sure that I was going to have another attack before then. I could feel it. I also thought I might puke, as most food poisoning starts with a diarrhea and follows-up with puke and more diarrhea.

I was driving a rental car. Had it been my own car, I would have taken the risk of shitting my pants in it; but a rental car has to be returned. I could imagine myself bringing it back with a big ol' squishy shitstain on the driver's seat. Not a pleasant fantasy by any stretch of the imagination.

I put my jacket on the seat and got in the car. It was a hundred and twenty degrees in there. I began to drive back to the strip. After ten minutes, I felt another attack coming. More bubbling noises -- louder this time. I scanned the landscape for an oasis of toilets and saw an Arby's sign. I pulled the car into the parking lot with a screech of tires and ran inside. At this point, my bowels were thinkin' Arby's.

This toilet made the one at TJ Maxx look like Shangri-La. This one didn't even have a toilet seat.

I sat on the seatless can and nearly fell in as my pucker-hole vomited hot excrement on all sides of the bowl. My abdomen shrunk with each spasm and my anus burned with the acridness of it. My poor bunghole was screaming in pain; I could see 'roids in my future.

I crawled back in the car and drove back to the hotel, nauseated. I stayed in my room and had a few more attacks. I didn't eat dinner.

Even after it ended, there were still aftereffects, some of which I am experiencing as I type this story. You see, to stop the flow of liquishit while traveling I wolfed down two Imodium and two Pepto-Bismol tablets. It stopped the immediate shit storm, but it caused all manner of other problems. I became constipated and racked with stabbing gas pains that haunted me through my flight home and still to this day. I am shitting somewhat normally now, but I continue to have outrageous gas.

Let this be a lesson to you all: if it tastes funny, don't eat it.

C Everett Poop (633) -- 05.19.2006

Good story! I concur that Vegas sucks a large and hairy donkey dick. My wife loves the place. I tell her "Have a nice time and I'll see you when you get back".

Thunderbox (825) -- 05.19.2006

Very funny and sorry tale Pinworm - it`s an amazing trick of nature to turn a half pound of fish into seveal gallons of stinking liquid.

doniker (1535) -- 05.19.2006

tuna fish sucks. I haven't eaten it in over 25 years.

"fuzzy eyeball"...that was funny. I get parinoid that the employees of a store are going to give me a hard time if I use the public toilet without buying something but in reality why should they care?
Unless they have to clean it or use it themselves it shouldn't be an issue. Most stores have private employee only toilets.

next time order some beef....well done....

Anonymous Coward (not verified) -- 05.19.2006

I have lived in Las Vegas for 5 years. One thing thing that you learn after a while is... Never eat fish in the desert!

Shatty Cake (135) -- 05.19.2006

I was just there last week and believe me, if diarrhea were money, I would be the loosest slot around.

Damn, Pinworm, that was funny. Overall a hilarious and well-written tale.

CC (not verified) -- 05.19.2006

If you stay at a hotel on The Strip you should be able to find a nice place to eat.You can find a nice coffee shop or a 5 star restaraunt.I would avoid the buffets.You have to be careful.If the food looks lousy don't eat it.If it tastes lousy throw it out.I can't knock a place that has legal sports betting and legal hookers.If you are not into gambling it won't appeal to you.You always should be able to find a crapper.If you are not in your room,every hoel lobby and every casino has crappers.

GottaGoGirl (2615) -- 05.19.2006

Pinworm- Yep, the "fuzzy eyeball" line cracked me up, as did the whole story. I have never trusted room service, and as you pointed out, it's way overpriced!

I think if you have to eat tuna, only eat it if you prepare it yourself at home.

"...One thing thing that you learn after a while is... Never eat fish in the desert!..."

Them're words to live by!

One should probably also avoid eating fish in a dessert!

sharty mcfly (211) -- 05.19.2006

two words man, fecal supernova. brilliant. sorry this post isn't more copious or coherent but i'm on massive amounts of vicodin because i'm in process of passing a kidney stone. but awesome story nonetheless, why is it that everyone has probems with tuna but me?

GottaGoGirl (2615) -- 05.19.2006

Wait, sharty. Just you wait. Just you wait and see!

Blaster Caster (4) -- 05.19.2006

Nicely written account of a terrible event. It conveys the horrors you endured (and are still enduring) very well.

Knock wood, I've only had one killer bout of food poisoning in my life, but that was more than enough for me. One year my mom, dad, and I all came down with botulism from some ham in our Thanksgiving dinner (!). We were all in terrible shape for several days, but for whatever reason I seemed to be hit the worst. It forever changed the way I look at the Holidays.

As for Vegas, I've never been and I have no complaints. What it's become in the last few years isn't my cup of tea. I wish you better luck and better health there in the future.

Blaster Caster.

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Vini, Vici, Poopi.

The Shit Volcano (3741) -- 05.19.2006

Yes, Vegas is truly a vile pimple on the ass of the Nevada desert. I live in Nevada and I sit halfway between Vegas and Reno. Whenever I have to do big city business I ALWAYS go to Reno. Vegas is like a television program trailer on NBC. All show and no filler.


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Cream rises to the top. So do dead fish.

Double Flush (597) -- 05.19.2006

I've never been to Nevada, and I don't plan on it. Also, it seems there are only two of us so far (sharty mcfly and me). PINWORM, awesome story. I was laughing nearly the whole time!

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Practicing the ancient Chinese art of double flushing... because sometimes, a single flush just isn't enough.

Northy (107) -- 05.21.2006

Fantastic, its typical that when you get shits like that you cannot find a suitable toilet - the one without a seat is just typical and as you find a stall your clenched arse always relaxes as punishment for being hopeful. Leaving no time to leave and find another. My tip WHENEVER abroad make sure you have a pack of Mr. Immodium close by

daphne (3527) -- 05.22.2006

I've had the tuna runs before, and what I've noticed is that tuna can still be tuna when exiting.

Ironic that tuna is the one food I cheat with on my veggie diet about once a month, as I will use the good italian tuna packed in olive oil in a tomato marinara with olives.

Thirty dollar sammich? Wow. Pinworm, that sucks.


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.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

The Dumpster (2506) -- 05.22.2006

Great story, Pinworm. I don't think there'd be much in Vegas for me, either.

BTW--If you're out and about and need to let some crap out, try to find a hotel/motel and use the lobby restroom. For some reason, these always seem to be a shade cleaner than fast food joints.

AB2K, didn't we have a poll on that subject some time back?

The Dumpster (2506) -- 05.22.2006

I just found it. In fact, it appears to be the first PR poll ever: Favorite chain store in which to poo.

An appropriate observation for the sixth birthday of PR's first post.

Shitty Lawyer (not verified) -- 05.22.2006

Great story! I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see if you would find a toilet in time-- not once but twice!

krzyzewskifan (55) -- 06.01.2006

funny, yet disgusting=excellent story, but you ordered fish in the desert...i think i see the problem there

Anonymous Coward (not verified) -- 06.11.2006

"At this point, my bowels were thinkin' Arby's." I don't know why, but I could not stop laughing after I read that. Excellent story!

Hunter S. Thompson (not verified) -- 11.21.2006

"The Circus-Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. This is the sixth Reich. The ground floor is full of gambling tables, like all the other casinos . . . but the place is about four stories high, in the style of a circus tent, and all manner of strange County-Fair/Polish Carnival madness is going on up in this space."
-- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Bowl Clogger Blogger (71) -- 11.22.2006

Sorry, I'm not buying this story. In Vegas, especially on the Strip, you're never more than a few minutes from a spotless bathroom. Particularly the ones in the casinos, which are cleaned regularly, 24 hours a day.
Also, no idea when Pinworm ate the sandwich he thinks caused the problem, but it's rare for spoiled food to take until "noon the next day" to create a violent diarhhea/food poisoning attack.
We go to Vegas at least twice a year, usually in early summer before the real heat arrives and again in mid-winter. During rush hour, and along the Strip, the traffic's heavy, but the rest of the day it's moderate, and anyone who's supposedly there once a month probably should know the alternate routes to get around. Believe me, there are plenty of ways to travel through Vegas in a car without sitting fuming at the "tourists in rental cars who have no idea where they are going". Sounds like the guy who's whining about the traffic is just as bad as the clueless tourists.
And then he has to take a shot at the "white trash" that stay at the Stratosphere, and this is the big wheel who's ordering a tuna sandwich! Hey Big Spender, were they out of bolgna and yellow cheese?
Sure, every toilet he found was worse than the one before. Why, the fastest growing city in the country is a sham, full of outhouses, out-of-order crappers (of course, there's only one in each restroom where Pinworm has the misfortune to visit), stores that have no toilet whatsoever, etc. Wouldn't make the story interesting if he just parked his ass on a clean toilet and shit out his tuna melt. Gotta be an ordeal. Considering the fact that you're never more than about five minutes from the nearest large hotel/casino where there are literally hundreds of well-maintained shitters, the only thing really strained in this story is my credulity. Pinworm probably forgot to put in the part about how a rattlesnake came up out of the pipe and nailed his package in the last, most disgusting shitter of them all.
For those of you who say, "There's no reason I'd go to Vegas," that's fine, don't go. We go there for the incredible shows, the amazing variety of fantastic restaurants, the tremendous hiking we can do in the beautiful hills and canyons outside town, the great winter weather, etc. We rarely gamble, and we never eat in a cheesy buffet. There are too many excellent places to eat to waste time gorging ourselves in a place where there are a ton of people breathing all over the food we might want to eat.
Yes, the story is entertaining, since it has the requisite explosive diarrhea, the cliffhanger aspect of "will he make it to the next crapper in time", and so forth. Slightly exaggerated, though? Uh, I'd have to say so.


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Please, no more cracks about my ass.

Anonymous Coward (not verified) -- 05.08.2007

I feel a close kinship with this author. On my very first trip to Vegas, I got a deal on a room at the Palms, which I liked OK. However, my first night there was marred by a metal band outside my window that STARTED playing at midnight (my east coast time) and the deliciously spicy Asian curried soup and several bottles of red wine I had for dinner in the coffee shop after not having eaten for about 14 hours. Around 2:00AM I sleepily felt the need to fart, and without warning spewed about a quart of toxic liquid curried death right into the bed. I'd swear that the band's PA system browned out briefly at the exact moment, but I was more concerned about the spicy Asian sauce that I had managed to spray all over my ass, on the sheets, through the sheet onto the mattress pad, and eventually drooling onto the formerly nice carpet. I'm surprised the fire alarm didn't go off.

I'll spare you the cleanup details. I did stay away from the Asian soup specials for the balance of my visit.

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