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Gone With the Wind: The Night Train To Dusseldorf

Posted 02.08.2005 by DungDaddy (1386)

I lived in Germany from 1989 to 1991. One cold February night 1991, I was traveling by train to Düsseldorf. What business I had in Düsseldorf I can scarcely remember, but I will never forget the ordeal that I endured en-route.

I don't know what the passenger carriages of the Deutsche Bundesbahn (German National Railway) are like now, but back then, unless you were riding the Inter City Express, there were basically two types: a closed compartment coach and an open seat coach. Both looked like designs from the 50's or 60's. Quite comfortable for travel -- except for the shitters.

Train restrooms are rarely well cared for. They're dirty, stinky, and disease-ridden. On this trip, the toilets themselves were of the atmospheric-ejection type -- tapered steel cylinders with little, non-movable, ass-stabbing seats. There is no water in these toilets. Instead, your poop just flops down onto a little metal flap, and rides there until your business is done and you push the ejection handle. Then the flap opens up and your hapless turd drops out of the speeding train and hits the track at speeds of up to seventy M.P.H. Hopefully the crap is obliterated by the collision and doesn't stack up on the rail bed. If you're lucky, an anemic little trickle of water leaks down from the overhead reservoir to remove your paper work and skid marks.

Most train bathrooms have a little sign reminding you not to flush the toilet while the train is stopped at the station. This is so train passengers, waiting at the platform, don't have to avert their eyes while foul, moldering waste glares up at them from the track below. Each car has one toilet at one end of the car.

However, the worst aspect of the German mobile honey house is the asswipe. If there is buttpaper at all, it's the little squares -- the folded-over little pieces of Bible paper, the kind that have a low absorption coefficient and are prone to stinky-finger-breakthrough. There are few things in this life I can say I hate. These are one of them.

Having given all that history, I'll get back to the story. It was dark and cold. I had settled into the multi-stop trip, reading a book as my travel partner tried to sleep. The train was about one-fourth full and nobody was talking. I had been suppressing a loaf for about an hour. Every time it requested permission to land, the urge became more difficult to deny.

I'm not a Shameful Shitter, but must admit I disliked pooping in trains. Usually I would shop around from car to car to find the least repulsive restroom before unloading. This train had four cars and three of the bathrooms were out of order. The fourth was not fit for human use -- the window latch was broken and the window, which hinged at the bottom, hung open and would not stay closed. The little flush flap in the toilet had been broken off and the track roared past the open hole. There was an icy tornado blasting up through the toilet and out the gaping window.

I returned to my seat and complained bitterly of my situation. My buddy didn't care. After about an hour, I could hold on no longer, and retired to the torture chamber to loosen my load.

The torrent of Arctic air from the toilet could be stopped by holding the window closed, but the seat was too low to sit on the pot and reach the window. So I sat down with a vicious gale whistling through my crack and swirling about my shriveling genitalia. Somehow -- maybe this is a medical thing -- the cold wind prevented me from pushing mud. The urge was still there, but my pooper puckered so hard it almost sucked up my balls. Finally, after much effort, I was able to wrench open my quivering stink pipe and drop a couple of butt burritos. I was anxious to wipe because I didn't want the toilet draft to dry my smudge into a hard butt crust.

When done pooping, I took a little pee. The pee swirled up a bit and attempted to escape the toilet. I suppressed it by clamping my legs together to slow the draft. This should have warned of the mayhem to come, but by then I wasn't thinking clearly.

I frantically jerked about forty of the little toilet paper squares from the dispenser and wiped with them all in one big wad. When I threw the handful of tissues into the howling little toilet, something amazing happened. Have you ever seen a money machine on a TV game show? That glass booth full of dollar bills where a contestant stands and tries to grab money while it blows around inside the booth? That happened.

Only it wasn't money. I was trapped in a swirling vortex of my own ass shrapnel. I panicked and flailed wildly, trying to block or catch the little missiles of poop paper. Finally, the little papers were sucked up and out the window, and I slouched against the wall, dazed and panting. One little poop sticker clung to my sweater. I no longer cared. Standing to finish up, I just chucked the used buttwipe out the window. I returned to my seat, a changed man.

It's funny now, but it wasn't funny then. But it eventually had a good effect: ever since, I have been a fearless dumper, no matter the situation.

-- DungDaddy

thepoopman (not verified) -- 02.08.2005

first post

the frequent farter (not verified) -- 02.08.2005

I thought that Germany would be more clean and modern than that.

Logjam (2460) -- 02.08.2005

Great story, and I think the concept of "ass shrapnel" is entirely new. I've ridden these German trains too, including ones from Dusseldorf to Bielefeld, and experienced the workings of the rear-end accomodations. But that trip is short enough to allow most of us to hold out on #2.

Logjam (2460) -- 02.08.2005

I was too quick on the judgment about ass shrapnel: new to me, but out there (e.g., http://members.cox.net/babblefish/feb0402.html)

ThreePly (not verified) -- 02.08.2005

All aboard the Poo-lar Express!

I've always wanted to travel on a train. Hopefully the domestic railways are more ass-friendly than what you had over in Germany. Great story none the less.

Crappen Geocacher (not verified) -- 02.08.2005

Good Thing that there was no working toilets ahead of you with people on them blowing out diarrhea, which would blow up through that broken potty, what a mess that would be. The stuff could have splattered all over you.

Ive never sat on a potty yet on a Plane, Train, or Ship, but only a standup peeing.

Pill Pooper (451) -- 02.08.2005

That was hysterical. I can almost picture the little pieces of TP siwrling around you like a mini shit tornado.

Good story.. Funny stuff.

Commode-O Dragon (107) -- 02.08.2005

Very good prose style. Clear, easy to follow descriptions. Your background information was concise, which allowed you to get to the story quicker.

I also liked the description of the "poop sticker", it drew a very clear image in my head of a square of TP adhering to your clothing, with a little brown shit smudge holding it on.

Nearly all Poop Reports require a certain amount of background information before beginning, this is a good example of not letting the background bog down the plot.

My favorite line of the story was definately, "So I sat down with a vicious gale whistling through my crack and swirling about my shriveling genitalia."

Overally, nice work, I'd like to read more by this author.

Commode-O Dragon (107) -- 02.08.2005

Dang it, I wish we had a bigger box in order to write responses. I tried to do some final editing to my post and couldn't see more than a paragraph of what I wrote, and ended up mixing up the order of the paragraphs. Its hard to do that when you can't more than a paragraph at a time.
"Overally" was my typo though, lol.

butt vomit (not verified) -- 02.08.2005

I wonder if Hitler was a shameful shitter?

Shatty Cake (135) -- 02.08.2005

The glass booth with the flying money was a very vivid metaphor. Really painted a clear picture in my head. And I love the title of this story--possibly the best title of 2005 so far.

Marcos (not verified) -- 02.08.2005

i agree that the money in the booth line was shit your pants laughable

Big Boy Humperdink (not verified) -- 02.08.2005

Excellent story. My favorite line was also, the part about a vicious gale whistling round DDs crack, spuds and taint

stink hole (not verified) -- 02.08.2005

I'm tired of these stories. I WANT TO HEAR ABOUT PEOPLE SHITTING THEMSELVES!!!!

Shypoo (32) -- 02.08.2005

that was hilarious. i loved the description of poop stickers flying around.

PrissyPooper (not verified) -- 02.08.2005

Great story...made me laugh!

DungDaddy (1386) -- 02.08.2005

Thanks. The last few are wierd. But thanks.

DungMommy (not verified) -- 02.08.2005

I appreciate it. This one and that one are slightly kookie. Nevertheless I appreciate it.

The Shit Volcano (3740) -- 02.08.2005

I was surprised to learn that Germany still dumps their shit on the tracks. In the United States the trains have crap catching tanks.

Back in the 1980s we still had some of the old shit dump toilets. The last time I ever saw one was 1990. There was big sign on the door that said, "Do not flush while in station." So of course I waited until we pulled into Denver and flushed the thing. (Not with poop in it.) Someone outside the car shouted "Hey!" and I ran back to my seat in a screaming hurry.

Kids are weird.

Doosaday (not verified) -- 02.09.2005

Commode-O; These small text boxes can be a bitch. If you feel a big post brewing, write it in Notepad, edit to your heart's content, then do the old cut-and-paste.

ChiefRunnyPoop (not verified) -- 02.09.2005

DD, that was a well written, belly laugh funny story. KUDO's! xcellent use of metaphors. You paint a vivid picture.

Ulala (not verified) -- 02.09.2005

HA! Hilarious story :) It made me laugh out loud unexpectedly on a day that has been rather "blah" so far. Kudos! :)

freakazoid (not verified) -- 02.10.2005

Shit tornado! I love it!

downunder (not verified) -- 02.11.2005

Yeah, ass shrappnel cracks me up ha ha. I wonder if that happened to 'Dr Djzvargo'.

Who dun it on the orient express...it was everyone they all blew ass shrappnel and shit tickets all over the place it looked like a murder scene.

BMinem (not verified) -- 02.20.2005

Found this site searching "poopy butt" for my cat.With all of the gravel stuck to the hot fudge on her paws she can't use the keyboard right now. I have lived this humor my whole life thanks for showing me the light(and the exhaust fan).Will be back. Butt for now please excuse my lame mistakes like repeating stuff that others have done cuz I'm still in diapers here. I gotta go!

PooperGal (not verified) -- 03.03.2005

Man, I sure would hate being a trackworker for the German railroad.

purplepooper (not verified) -- 04.04.2005

my sides hurt from laughing so hard...thanks for making my day!

The Dumpster (2506) -- 02.08.2006

Last summer, Little Dumpster and I took the Amtrak from Chicago to Seattle to visit my sister and her family, This was a three-day, two-night train ride, and we had reserved what Amtrak expansively calls a "stateroom" (roughly the size of your average walk-in closet), with a "private bath." They were right--it was barely big enough to bathe your privates. The commode and the shower were actually the same tiny compartment, and if you weren't really careful about the door, the water leaked out all into your sleeping area.

Still, it was not bad for no more than the amount of time we had to spend on it, and when you compare it to travel on the human sardine cans they call airplanes these days, it was postively Titanic-esque in its sumptuousness (sans the iceberg). My only point for this site is--Shameful Shitters, beware!

GottaGoGirl (2616) -- 04.10.2006

DungDaddy, that's a GREAT story! The hubby and I lived in Germany (Bitburg) from 1990-1992; we never went on a train, but the Spulklosetten on the Autobahn were always really nice! I too, am surprised the train toilets were nasty.

_______
"You polished up my low-flow, and I dirtied up your bowl!"

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