My girlfriend and I had just moved in together. It was the first mild pre-spring evening after a particularly lousy winter, so we decided we would take a stroll to our favorite local haunt, to enjoy the weather and some cheeseburgers in their lovely outdoor garden. I got mine with blue cheese -- an indulgence that has often led to butt trouble, but one I've always felt was worth the added wiping effort.
We finished the meal and paid the check without incident. Not five minutes had passed as we were walking back home when I felt a distinct rumbling from the depths of my bowels. I'm no psychic, but I immediately knew there was something brown and smelly in my future. Then the dull stabbing pains in the lower intestinal region began -- this unwelcome visitor was making its intentions quite clear.
I paused to regroup and explained the somewhat embarrassing situation to my understanding (but incredulous) girlfriend. Her confidence in my ability to make it home in time was a mild sedative for my inner turmoil, but was no match for the peanutty beast growing within me. Regardless, I soldiered on, certain I could make it the scant four blocks to the comfort of our new commode. We rallied together -- me squeezing for dear life, and my girlfriend offering words of encouragement and faith in my control over my bodily functions.
A block and a half away from our humble abode, natural disaster struck. It was messy, it was malodorous, and it was in my pants. I was shocked and embarrassed. I could feel it filling my favorite pair of boxer briefs.
My girlfriend remained calm and even tried to hold my hand to make me feel better about this terrible turn of events. Too ashamed to look her in the eye, I told her not to get too close. If I were the type of person who would move his bowels in his pants, she would surely move her belongings out of our home and leave me alone forever with my shit-stained underwear.
I trudged up the stairs through the muck and mire of my soiled ego, sequestered myself in the throne room, and began the clean-up process. After sealing the offending undies in a plastic bag, washing the evidence from my jeans, and undergoing a thorough posterior scrubbing, I emerged like a shameful turd from the ass of life. Surely there would be no way to save face after this ordeal -- just as sure as there was no way I could save those soiled briefs.
Well, more than a year has passed since the incident, and I am glad to report my girlfriend and I are living happily ever after. Despite the loss of that load into my pants, there was no love lost between us. In fact, I think this internal-then-external drama brought us closer together.
Nothing from my past, present or future could measure up to the Freudian shame I felt on that day. Yet I look back upon it with a wistful feeling. Even if my stool was not solid, our relationship was, and remains so. I am secure in the fact that our love withstood the ultimate test: incontinence.
-- S. Foxx Fitzgerald