Dinner and a movie. Second date jitters. Back to her apartment to sit and talk and watch TV. SMOKING anus.
I really liked this girl, and the conversation was unforced. I think we'd eaten Chinese. I had a piece of cocker spaniel between my teeth that I'd been working with my tongue on the drive home.
Suddenly the dogmeat, roasted hamster, and fried lice started digging in quicker than Bill Clinton at an Avon party.
"May I use your restroom?" I heard myself say. What I WANTED to say was, "Is there a garden hose and a pack of mules in your backyard?"
I stood up like a 90-year-old gravedigger who'd just seen a screening of Gigli. The bathroom, it turns out, was about eight feet from the couch and -- get this -- had NO door handle. Yep.
It was one of those slide and latch things. So I consider my options.
- Shamelessly SIT ON BOWL and unleash a Saddam.
- Run home immediately.
I chose door number two; the curtain behind option number one was sure to have a filthy llama and much laughter from the audience -- my date.
I made an excuse about having stomach trouble and practically ran out to the car. My date's eyes got big as she must have figured out I was having trouble.
I THREW myself into my car and let the first wave of Mao's Uprising purge into the confines of the leather seat. Driving out onto the road, I raised up again and another enormous fphart flared. I knew that I wouldn't make it home, but I'd managed to keep a merely awful situation from turning into the Hindenburg.
Neither of us ever mentioned my about-face again.
-- by Sits On Bowl