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Peace Craps

Posted 04.12.2004 by In The Bushes (111)
I was a Peace Corps volunteer a few years back; not surprisingly, I had a lot of interesting pooping and peeing experiences. The first -- but not the worst -- took place when I was in training: I was constipated for two full weeks. I think during the entire two weeks I had a couple of measly little grape-sized turds, and that was it. I finally stopped eating, because I just felt like there was no place for the food to possibly go. I went to our medical officer and asked her to give me something to get rid of the load that was solidifying in my digestive system. For a few days, she refused, and I was afraid to insist because I feared that I would be terminated -- I had not listed IBS on my medical application.

In any case, she finally did give me something to loosen me up (I don't remember what, exactly), and I spent most of that night sitting on the toilet in excruciating pain, listening to Brahms's German Requiem on my Discman and squirting out first hard, and then molten and liquid shits. I kept wondering what my host family must think of the dumb American woman sitting on their toilet (they lived in a town and had running water) for hours on end, making these horrible noises. When I was done I was afraid to flush -- the toilet was completely full and brown, and once in the U.S. my parents had to replace all of their plumbing and tried to pin the blame on me and my big shits (although, they weren't the real cause of the pipe blowout -- there were tree roots growing into the pipes). It took several attempts for me to send the products of my bowels to the bowels of the Earth, but it did all finally go down and nobody in the host family ever said anything to me about it.

Later, while still living with the same family, I developed a habit of occasionally going out at night with my fellow trainees. The family with which I was staying did not approve of any activity that didn't involve the Pentecostal church and speaking in tongues, so they would lock me out if I wasn't home by 8:00 or so. I acquired a certain degree of skill at unlocking and opening my bedroom window from the outside and climbing in to go to sleep, then slipping out back in the morning and walking in through the back door in my pajamas. Nobody ever asked me anything about that, either.

The only problem was peeing or pooping. My bedroom was always locked from the outside, so I had no way to get to the hallway -- and thus to the bathroom -- if I needed to go. I am not proud of the solution I found; but on the other hand, the mother of the family used to use her two-year-old son's shirt to wipe up his pee and then put it back on him, so I guess it wasn't that bad in the grand scheme of things.

The houses in that town were very close together, so even though I could actually see the neighbors watching soccer just a few feet away, I would just stick my butt out the window and do it... Today, for the first time, I wonder why I didn't just go back out the window I had used to climb into the house in the first place and use a more sensible spot. Huh. It's funny what aging makes you realize.

The most interesting poop-related occurrence actually happened to a friend of mine. We we're stationed in rural areas about twenty miles from any tarred road, with families who didn't have running water. Thus, we used latrines. My friend had a cat, and one day when she went to the toilet she could hear the cat meowing. It turned out that the cat had fallen down into the latrine.

My friend tried everything to get that cat out. She tried leaning her body as far as she could down the hole, sticking a long log down for the cat to climb up, even dropping down a bucket full of meat on a rope to entice the cat. Nothing worked. Meanwhile, all weekend, every time she had to go to the toilet, she was forced to urinate and/or defecate right on to her cat while listening to its pitiful meows. She went so far as to ask her host father to shoot the cat, because she figured the cat was going to die and it should at least be put out of its misery. Her host father refused, saying that it was bad luck to kill a cat.

This sounds like a very sad story, but it has a happy ending. One morning my friend woke up and smelled this awful reek. Then she heard meowing. Somehow that cat, after four or five days of being stuck, had managed to get out. My friend had one hell of a time trying to wash off the poop smell, and never did figure out how that cat had escaped the latrine. However, her host family was afraid of the cat from then on -- since there was no way the cat could have escaped the latrine, they decided it must have been a ghost.

-- In The Bushes

the shit reaper (not verified) -- 04.12.2004

hahahahahaha! "ever since then the family was afraid of the cat" funny story, In The Bushes! LOL @ ThreePly's theories about cats and efficient sewage systems

daphne (3514) -- 04.12.2004

Huh???

My God, ITB, how did you not get a 2 by 4 and go postal on the mom? Or, pee on her? Or, let the cat have at her?
So, you're locked out of the house for, gasp, fraternizing, but she can wipe urine on her son.
Whew.
First, I'm glad the cat's OK, and I'm surprised it didn't get any horrible eye infections.
Second, you're the first person I've ever heard of who got CONSTIPATED in a forgeign country. Usually, it's the other way around. I am to assume even your poop was so alarmed at the state of the place you were that IT didn't want to be there either, and was attempting to hang around long enough sneak back out of the country home.
Can't say I blame it.

Rob D. Troit (not verified) -- 04.12.2004

I hate people not from my country, always defecating on cats and making people climb into windows. It's for those types of reasons that wars occur. Xenophobia rules! First post kicks ass. Never let them stop the sweet deuce.

pooQueen (not verified) -- 04.12.2004

What a bizarre story, from the whacko mom putting a pissy shirt onto her kid to the poor cat stuck in a shithole. I don't know what else to say.

pooQueen (not verified) -- 04.12.2004

Oh, yeah, it's people like Rob D. Troit that start wars.

ThreePly (not verified) -- 04.12.2004

See this is why I don't travel outside of the great USA. I don't give a damn what sights I'm missing, there is no greater comfort than a country that cares about their sewer systems. That's why we're the most powerful nation in the world, our sewer systems cater to the needs of the human digestive system!

As for the cat, its obvious. After mounds and mounds of crap piled up, the cat just climbed up and crawled out.

DB Pooper (not verified) -- 04.12.2004

I would have called all my friends to go to Taco Bell and then come over and bury that cat in shit. I hate cats.

Chuck (not verified) -- 04.12.2004

This story sounds like watching a "Twilight Zone" episode after a couple of Nyquil gulps.

Insane Wayne (not verified) -- 04.12.2004

My cat would have bitten her ass

The Shit Volcano (3737) -- 04.12.2004

CSI: Poop Report strikes again. I know exactly how that cat got out of the latrine. If she was living in a hot location the shit probably swelled with bacterial growth and gas. Eventually with all the piss and shit that was coming down the tremendous crap mound would bulge up toward the opening of the latrine. The cat probably climb Mount Poop and jumped out on its own.

Crapslikeclockwork (58) -- 04.13.2004

One of my friends cats, now sadly departed, used to like to drink from the downstairs toilet. Only the downstairs one mind. Occasionally it would fall in. Not the brightest one in the litter unfortunately. You'd be sitting in their living room and hear a splash. Shortly afterwards a bedraggled moggy would walk though, trying to look for all the world as if plunging headfirst down the pan was an everyday occurance.

The Shit Volcano (3737) -- 04.13.2004

You know cats. They always meant to do it.

daphne (3514) -- 04.13.2004

Shit Volcano, I will play the part of the defense attourney, always played by some buttwipe............
How could the mound have built up if the cat is from a poor country? She would have not been declawed. Thus, any gas accumulation would have popped due to the cat's claws digging into the bubble as it frantically scratched for the top of the hole.

Then again, counselor, are you two steps ahead of me, suggesting that the explosion of gas from the claws projected the feline from the hole to safe ground?

We never know with the Shit Volcano. The explosion theory may be right up your alley. Hahaha.

nunyabizz (not verified) -- 04.14.2004

This was quite an...uh...interesting read, huh? First of all, thank you In The Bushes, for the story (stories). Secondly, I have a cat and I love her to pieces, but since I'm also a mom I feel worse for the little boy wearing a pissed-on shirt. Just makes me think "if his mother would wipe up pee with his clothing and put the damn thing back on him, what else does she do?" This was a Penticostal family? Nice. I've known some weird Penticostals. They didn't watch regular TV. but they had a monitor and VCR. The parents would send the kids to the video store to rent movies (any movies they wanted except porn) and they had to ask for a brown paper bag to carry them home in. WEIRDOS!!

The Shit Volcano (3737) -- 04.14.2004

Oh, man, Daphne! I never thought of the claws airating (I doubt if I spelled that right) the dung pile with its claws.

My sister's explanation was much less hilarious. She swears cats can teleport themselves if the need arises. Then again, she also believes that dragons are responsible for thunderstorms.

The mystery remains.

In The Bushes (111) -- 04.14.2004

I feel eaten by guilt and must point out that, on the whole, both the country where I served and my experiences there were wonderful and enlightening for me. I met many outstanding people who didn't dress their children in urine-soaked garments.

That said, many exciting poop-oriented experiences, from carrying your paper bags of poop samples through the capitol shitty before your close of service to giving yourself painkiller suppositories after surgery, await the brave, adventurous, and generous spirit who chooses to volunteer.

Incidentally, people in this particular country - which I will not name on principle - call diarrhea "runny stomach." I always thought that was both misleading and descriptive.

daphne (3514) -- 04.14.2004

Shit Volcano,

I demand to know where your sister gets her pot.
Unless she's like, 7 or something, because then I can understand her theories, and you should never put the squeeze on a 7 year old to find out who her dealer is............

apples (not verified) -- 04.15.2004

crap takes to long to do. idont like to take craps because my butt gets soar when i get into the shower..so usually i try and stay off the pot...

The Shit Volcano (3737) -- 04.15.2004

Daphne, unfortunately she is not seven years old. She just celebrated her twenty-ninth birthday two days ago. I don't know about pot but she does have this "astral projection incense" she won't let me see. Makes me wonder sometimes.

daphne (3514) -- 04.15.2004

Oh, Shit Volcano, you know I was just joking.
You must know that. I would never cut on someone that way, unless they post stupid shit on this site.
I was just kidding.

The Shit Volcano (3737) -- 04.16.2004

You didn't offend me. I thought it was funny.

daphne (3514) -- 04.16.2004

Oh good. I'd honestly hate to really piss any of the poopreporters off, honestly. I'm so new to this site, but it feels like home. It's just that when I read your comment, I was watching Mad TV, and the one character was on, the little girl who's sister is a genius, and her parents hate her. She's always dressed really crazy, like with wings and, like, 4 pairs of socks. I think Stephanie Weir plays her. Well, I read your Puff the Magic Dragon post, and I look up and see this full grown woman dressed like a 7 year old, and, well, my mind just ran with it.

Before I knew it, my fingers typed it out and betrayed me. Damn fingers. And, I'd only had six glasses of wine, too................(hehe)

Forest Sprite a.k.a. Jessie (not verified) -- 04.19.2004

I swear to god, if I ever meet the father of the girl, who's poor cat got stuck in a latrine for five days, I'll give him HELL for not taking pity on the cat! How'd he feel if he were a tiny little thing stuck in a porta potty? LOL

Newbe (not verified) -- 04.25.2004

In The Bushes, you have my praise and admiration. For both being brave enough to submit a story, and it's wonderful that you joined the Peace Corps. Your a great person and brave to volunteer in another country. Also in my experience girls seem to hate to admit to pooping, much less submit a story. You also have my sympathy I've never been constipated and the idea of going through what you did seems awful.......... you have my sympathy

Bunghole In the... (432) -- 04.13.2006

In the Bushes: I've never seen an article written by you. I absolutely enjoyed this one. Your listening to a funeral memorial dirge while on the toilet for hours sounds like appropriate musical selection!

Bizarre behavior from the host family, though. I s'pose given the circumstance, anyone can become heretical over any subject.

Just wanted to let you know that I believe the peace corps do a lot of good--glad you volunteered.

The Shit Volcano (3737) -- 04.13.2008

Many years later, we now know the answer to the cat getting out of the latrine mystery. Bilge?

_______
Born right the first time.

Bilgepump (1629) -- 04.13.2008

The 5th amendment precludes me from having to provide an answer.

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