One day about a year ago, I was at the shopping center with Mum. We were just about to leave when I needed to take a dump. I could feel in my stomach that this was going to be one of those long painful dumps -- the ones where you crap, wipe, and think you're finished, but just as you're about to put your pants back on, realize that there's more to come... you know what I'm talking about.
My mum is a cranky and impatient nagger of a woman, and told me that I had better be quick.
I went to the toilet and pushed hard, but I just couldn't do it -- I had some weird case of performance anxiety. The more I looked at my watch and pictured my mum outside in a furious rage, wondering what was taking me so long, the more constipated I seemed to become. I tried several anti-constipation techniques, but nothing seemed to work.
After twenty minutes, I just couldn't stand the pressure. All I could think about was my big fat angry mum yelling her head off: "What the hell have you been doing in there? What took you so long?!"
Of course, I couldn't just tell her that I was constipated, because then she'd nag on and on and bloody on about it: telling me how I wasn't eating right, constantly asking me every five minutes for the next ten years if I was constipated... so I just walked out, silently faced the nagging bugger and went home.
Mum dropped me off at home and drove off somewhere else. I was in desperate need to rid my bowels of this brown bastard bunging my hole.
My old man told me once how he used to give his greyhound dogs enemas to clean them out and make them lighter before they raced. He told me he'd just stick a hose up their bum, gently pour in a bit of water, and then a few minutes later they would dump all over the place.
When I asked more about this practice (I'd never really known what an enema was before I heard this), he told me that once in hospital he had been given an enema. He had to hold it in for a few long hours, after which he let it all gush out in a torrential flood of relief.
Well, I thought I'd try this technique on myself.
I couldn't exactly stand out in my front yard jamming the garden hose up my arse, so I let the hose in through the bathroom window, placing it in the bath as I went outside and turned it on. Then I went back into the bathroom. I grabbed the hose and folded it over, clamping it so the water stopped running. Then I bent over.
For you non-Australians, a quick lesson: we call the room with the bath and the shower "the bathroom." The room with the toilet is called "the toilet." Some houses have the toilet in the bathroom, but most don't. In America, the urge to poop begets the phrase, "I need to go to the bathroom." If you said that here, we'd wonder why you suddenly have this intense need to go wash your hair.
I looked over at my puckered ring in the bathroom mirror. So small. How was I going to fit the end of a hose up in there? But I knew I'd produced some enormous craps before... one's hole is nothing if not accommodating.
With a bit of effort and a lot of Vaseline, I managed (quite uncomfortably) to fit the nozzle into my anus. I slowly released the clamp. There's no weirder feeling than filling one's ass like a water balloon.
Great. I had gotten this far. I had an ass full of water. Now all I had to do was wait a while, then go to the toilet in the basement and poop it all out. Right?
Wrong. As soon as I pulled out the hose, a wave of brown water shot from my ass. Thankfully, it was aimed over the bathtub... no big deal. I'd just go to the toilet now straight away.
Then I turned and looked into the tub, and at the wet sloppy hunks of feces floating in it.
But first things first. I bolted (carefully, so as not to leak any shit onto the carpet) down to the toilet. More chunky poo juice came gushing and spurting.
After I was done, I walked back towards the bathroom to clean up the disgusting mess in the tub. Except -- there, standing right there, there was Wilson, the man who boarded in our house. Wilson, who had come home early from work. Wilson, who had been in the house for God knows how long. Wilson, who was wearing a towel.
He said hello to me. I froze.
Had he just been in the bathroom? Had he seen the bathtub full of buttleak?
Our encounter pretty much ended at that, but I was paranoid about it for months. Every conversation we had, I could hear his thoughts: "I came home from work early, went to the bathroom to wash my hands (or whatever) and found the bath full of crap! What a disgusting little creature this boy is!"
To this day, I still don't know if Wilson had gone into the bathroom while I was in the toilet, or if he had seen the damage even if he had. As for the enema, it cleaned me out nicely. But I don't think I'll be trying it again.
-- Dr James.