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Stop And Go Traffic

Posted 05.17.2004 by Paige (11)
It was a bumpy flight from Washington D.C., and down through the clouds we came. Silicon Valley came into view and I saw the Pacific shimmering in the distance. My boss was taking me on my first sales trip and I was extremely nervous. On the outside I looked OK in my navy blue Donna Karan pinstripe. But on the inside, I consisted of: worries; at least eight cups of coffee (three on the plane); and a bran muffin that tasted like a diseased circus monkey. The coffee and muffin were swirling around worse than a pufferfish in an inflamed colon.

I was just about to get up and make my way back to the crap closet when I heard the little ding. The captain had turned on the final seat belt warning. Everyone must be in their seats. Even the attendants were buckling in.

I adjusted in my seat and a dangerous little fart squirted out. This was no ordinary fart -- it felt like the first explosion of lava before a mighty volcano eruption. That dang muffin!

I pressed both halves of my ding as hard as I dared and felt the next rush of steaming javadung surrender. Elvis definitely wanted to leave the building. But I wasn't about to let him out now.

We finally landed and I felt better. I smiled. False alarm. My boss and I made it to the car rental counter and we both rented cars. He'd need his own, as he had business in Frisco later; but I'd return my car and fly home alone later that night. The plan was for me to follow him in his Lexus. I had a Ford Taurus. I knew where I stood in the pecking order.

We were late. He told me to stay close behind him. He knew the best route. It was only a short ten-minute drive.

Ten minutes later, we were sitting in a huge traffic jam. Dead stop. His car was four cars ahead of mine. I'd never seen anything like this, even in Washington. Not even one lane was open. People were getting out of their cars and talking. My boss got out of his and walked back. "I heard a tractor trailer is jackknifed up ahead. Might be awhile. I'll go back to my car and call ahead and let them know we might be stuck here."

Meanwhile, Elvis was kicking and screaming again. A giant mass of molten toxic bubbling stew sluice was trickling between my ding.

I pivoted in the Taurus seat and took in my surroundings. I knew I had no more than four minutes before the sluice made its curtain call. Where was a Winnebago when you needed one? There were only big trucks. Did they have bathrooms in those things? I doubted it. But I got out of the car anyway. What was there to lose at this point?

The burning was so awful that I had to walk like someone tossed a Jart in my ass. I must have looked like someone who snipped off a hemorrhoid and sprayed kerosene on it.

The trucker appeared quite happy to see me. "Hey darlin'. Having trouble?"

I smiled like a harmless puppy, but I felt like a Doberman with a broken syringe in its butt. "Don't guess you got a restroom in that big truck?"

"We got a couple things for emergencies. A pee bottle -- however, I don't reckon that would help you much -- and a bucket for other situations." He pronounced the word situation like "silitations."

Once again, a bubbling vat of bat java singed my escape hatch. I had about two minutes until eject mode. There wasn't a sliver of pride or civility left in my body. I weighed my choices: I could either scramble up into the filthy truck, or go back to the car and squirt.

"If I use your truck, could I have some privacy?"

He tumbled out of the rig like a hungry walrus. He was huge. His belly was so big he had to wear suspenders; the slogan on his t-shirt said, "Got Milk?"

He told me the bucket was sitting on the floor, and to go on up and help myself.

I know what you are thinking. A well-dressed lady in designer clothing getting into a hillbilly wagon seems farfetched. But in the words of my Uncle Angus: when you gotta go, you gotta go.

The truck was covered in junk food. Candy wrappers, potato chips, Coke cans, maps, pens, clothes. I found the bucket. There was little time to decide on a technique. Reaching down, I ripped off my drawers and then squatted like a sick bear. The dignity of starting slowly was long gone.

What actually happened must have scared the hillbilly still standing next to the truck. Have you ever put a cucumber in a blender and set the knob to nine? I've never ever felt so relieved in my entire existence. I think bucket pooping is highly under appreciated. I would, however, strongly endorse a quite grander bucket; but the mechanics of the operation aren't difficult.

I was done in eight seconds. No more needed to expunge itself. Finding some tissues, I filled up the bucket and got my drawers back on. I also found a plastic bag, into which I placed the bucket. Then I went toward the driver's door and glanced out.

To this day, I am not sure which was worse -- expecting to see only the hillbilly, suddenly the aristocratic mug of my superior came into view! The two were out there talking! How was I going to explain this?!?

I put the bag of crap on the floor and opened the door.

The hillbilly had explained the situation to my superior, and they both just wanted to make sure I was going to make it.

The only thing I was able to say was, "When you gotta go, you gotta go."

They both laughed about it, but it was the most awful thing that has ever happened in my twenty-five years. We never even made it to the meeting. It took three hours before they got the road open, so my boss told me to take the rental and fly back.

When I got home, I took a shower and then a bath, and tried to wash the sordid ordeal out of my memory. The incident was never brought up again. However, my boss did refer to it one time during a meeting. Getting up and excusing himself from the boardroom, he turned to me and said, "Might you excuse me just a moment? When you gotta go, you gotta go!!"

-- Paige

Count Logula (not verified) -- 05.17.2004

Hey JJJ, FRISCO SUCKS and you suck for living there. It is a city of homos, homeless and whiny student protestors. Questions?

ThreePly (not verified) -- 05.17.2004

Bonus points for mentioning Jarts. That game ruled back in the day.

I too have found myself in the mid-flight with a log ready to make an emergency landing. The only thing I can advise is turing the air vent on and try your damndest to relax. God Bless our truckers!

Uncle Chunk (not verified) -- 05.17.2004

I don't suppose you stunk up the cab of his truck did you? I find this story a little hard to believe. You could have done your business at a public restroom in the airport or pulled over at a gas station and told your boss you were still stuck in traffic. And you just left the bag of poo? That is foul and very unsantitary and rude for that poor kind soul of a trucker, you should have tossed the bag off into the wild blue yonder after you left the truck.

doniker (1517) -- 05.17.2004

I remember playing Jarts as a kid some 30 years ago.
We were playing at the neighbor's house and a young girl was standing there barefoot and took a Jart right through the foot, it was gross and I still remember it like it was yesterday.

C Everett Poop (not verified) -- 05.17.2004

I would have eaten two more diseased circus monkey muffins, drank a quart of coffee and calmly sat in my car, cursing the traffic until I got back to my hotel. I have an iron sphincter.

I am C Everett Poop and I approve of this message.

PoopIsMyFriend (not verified) -- 05.17.2004

Nice story, but what is a ding and why do you keep mentioning it?

ThreePly (not verified) -- 05.17.2004

Doniker, I probably shouldn't be, but I've been laughing at the very image of that Jarts incident happening. It just seems like something that would only happen in a Benny Hill skit. No wonder why they got banned.

Shawn St James (not verified) -- 05.17.2004

Yeah, a little ic humor aint all bad. Can you imagine the LAWSUITS involved with a consumer product like that today???

I mean, we're basically talking about an IRON JAVELIN with a plastic fin that KIDS THROW at each other.

Pvt. Pierce (not verified) -- 05.17.2004

PoopIsMyFriend:

The young lady has an anus piercing with a tiny golden bell suspended from the ring. It goes ding-a-ling whenever there's a turtlehead pushing at the door.

If you want something similar, visit me at my Panama City Beach shop and I will gladly pierce your private parts and install a dauble or dangly thingie in or near your dingy.

daphne (3325) -- 05.17.2004

Totally awesome story. I would have never been able to get out of that one alive. I would have also left the poop in the truck, but I would have probably given the guy twenty bucks.
This story also seems to have a Texas Chainsaw Massacre type of affect on me. The description of the inside of the cab was great.
Not bad at all, Paige!!

doniker (1517) -- 05.17.2004

http://home.att.net/~planetgarp/jarts.html

daphne (3325) -- 05.17.2004

Fabulous link, Doniker! Funny, too!

Now I remember those things. I especially like how the first set shown had those wonderfully safe, sharp tips.

katy (not verified) -- 05.17.2004

daphe when u poop do u wipe your asss or not? and if u do y do u? and how do u wipe your ass standing or sitting and if u sit doing it do u rech behiund ur back or do u go under u legs and finally how many times a day do u poop? how much do u weigh?

daphne (3325) -- 05.17.2004

Hey Katy,
Thanks for the interest in my bodily functions!

I'm a big-boned thorough wiper, thank you very much. And, I'll be appearing at Caesar's Palace all next week.

PoopIsMyFriend (not verified) -- 05.17.2004

Katy can you please answer the same questions?

katy (not verified) -- 05.17.2004

i don't wipe at all thank you very much. i used to wipe back to front but my boyfriend (who is also my cousin) kept telling me how bad my pootie smelled. since my ass is so wide that i can't reach around, i simply stopped wiping all together which seemed to please my boyfriend as well as made it easier and faster for me to complete my task in the outhouse.

JJJ1987 (32) -- 05.17.2004

This wasx an OK story... however being a native San Francisco, we HATE it when people call the city "Frisco" ("as he had business in Frisco later; but I'd return my car and fly home alone later that night.") Otherwise I was entertained... you mentioned you were from Washington, D.C.: where? I live in Great Falls, VA...

Jack Scat (81) -- 05.17.2004

In Canada, we called them Lawn Darts and they were totally fun. A friend of mine still has a set and sometimes we play when were at his cottage. They are also illegal in Canada because one too many kids took one in the head. A person must look like something out of a Dr. Zeuss book with one of those sprouting from the top of their head.

Di Uhreea (409) -- 05.17.2004

And you can virtually play Jarts here:

http://www.skti.org/games/jarts.html

Peristalsis (18) -- 05.17.2004

Paige, I too am a fellow Beltway/DC Metro traffic "logjam" survivor. I was installing telephone equipment in DC & the Virginia suburbs back in the early '90s and had many uncomfortable run-ins (OK, run-outs) because of the stagnant DC traffic. I respect the initiative you displayed by seeking succor in a truck cab. I just went ahead and shit my pants somewhere between Manassas and McLean. Maybe if my boss had been in the car I'd have had more incentive to "think outside the box" like yourself. By the way, I'll bet that display of "crisis management" impressed your boss to no small degree. That incident have made your career. Or reduced you to a happy-hour legend amongst your colleagues...

the shit reaper (not verified) -- 05.18.2004

heheheheheheh nice! thanx, Di Uhreea

daphne (3325) -- 05.19.2004

Hey, shit reaper,
Where the hell you been?

Missed ya'

My Dung (not verified) -- 05.24.2004

Yeah, the story is pretty hard to believe. If she was that desperate, she could have excused herself gone at the airport

Meek As a Lamb (not verified) -- 05.18.2008

I can so sympathize with Paige. Those of us who are in our mid-20s, on a business trip with a boss who we want to impress who is twice or even three times our age, often find it tough to ask for a time out to go in and pee or crap. It doesn't help when the luggage comes in on time, there's no line at the rental car kiosk, or worst yet, you're running late. Also, the long lines at peak times in the airport bathrooms could easily extend beyond the 10-minutes Paige's boss expected the drive to take. And of course, there's the cleanliness issue. I regularly hold craps for the small one-stall bathroom in a client's small office building or my hotel rather than the smelly, filthy unknowns of the 25-stall airport bathroom. Sorry, but as a small-town girl I can relate to what Paige was probably thinking.

Rosella (not verified) -- 05.18.2008

Meek As a Lamb is more than just meek, actually stupid! It must have been in her upbringing and how she could ever hope to have success in business I don't know. My mom was an executive for a department store chain and we traveled frequently as she would help train the staff at new stores and go to industry conferences. Beginning at age 8, I would travel with her once or twice a month. By the time I took my first business class in high school I had probably been to 30 states.

In the beginning the code word was "pit stop" and mom would appreciate it when I would volunteer rather than have to be reminded. Immediately before leaving home, before boarding the plane, after getting the luggage, before leaving a restaurant, etc., I would go in, sit down and at least half the time, I was able to produce something. When driving on the interstate, we would have a "pit stop" at every 3rd or 4th rest stop which meant there wouldn't be any mad dashes, accidents or urinary infections from "holding it."

I turn 30 this year and use the same procedure with my three kids. If you can take the agitation and shame out of their asking to go, lots of problems can be averted. Paige and Meek As a Lamb are textbook examples.

Running Hard (not verified) -- 05.20.2008

I, too, can understand how Meek and Paige feel. The Captain turning on the seat belt sign definitely was a downer and no down time waiting for the luggage to come back, no rental car line and expectations of a really short drive to the hotel could raise hopes that the crap could be postponed for 10 minutes or so. And, as for me, I regularly bypass the large airport restrooms if I see the line snaking outside the door and into the hallway. I would much rather hold my crap for my own hotel room rather than wait an equally long time for an airport stall to open and then to find there's no toilet paper left, or that my feet will be planted in water and/or sludge from a recent overflow. Airport bathrooms are some of the dirtiest I've encountered in my 27 years and I have almost no inclination to use them.

Holdin' It Hannah (not verified) -- 05.26.2008

Rosella's mom's idea of the "pit stop" is refreshing. However, not all of us are raised by parents who are that encouraging. My friend Stac, with whom I traveled on several occasions, had a really bitchy mom (we were 8 at the time!) who would say things like "Well, you'll just have to hold it until we get to our hotel because these bathrooms aren't very clean" or "If you put it in one end, it's got to come out the other and you probably shouldn't be drinking that much anyway when we are traveling". I know Stac wet herself on a couple of occasions when we were on the highway and her parents refused to use rest stops. As for me, I eventually learned to take their advice and drink less when we were not going to be close to clean bathrooms.

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