Friday, February 29, 2008
Ass vs Poop: Requiem
Aside from a handful of overtly disgusting pigs squatting over our shitters here, I think a lot of the crime scene that is stall two can be attributed to poop shyness and embarrassment. Typical soft-spoken, Minnesotan men of stoic, Scandinavian stock are going to want to skulk away into the anonymous mist after plugging a toilet solid. Once they learn that eating an entire wheel of Jarlsberg, wax and all, will result in voluminous and dense shit with an inescapable field of gravity, you'd think they would alter their diet. But these Lutheran Swedes are a stubborn lot. They like them some Jarlsberg, and that is what they will eat, cock suck it! And if it results in a regimen of daily double deuces that clot the porcelain, so be it. But they would be utterly mortified for another human being to discover that they consistently power squat a tawny log of knotty oak the size of a healthy skunk, so they go out of their way to hide the evidence.
Keeping the secret of a dirty ass could mean quietly sweating while hovering over a bowl of swirling wicker, trying to out wait the guy in the next stall. "Please leave, please leave, please leave!" And at long last, he hears the rustling of toilet tissue, the clinking of a belt buckle, the running of a faucet, and the echo of footsteps out the door, trailing down the hall to silence. Not wanting to risk being caught, he can nary afford nary a moment to unplug the commode by furiously plunging at it like he's churning butter. He's already churned enough butter for today, thank you very much. No, it would seem the best course of action would be to open the stall door just a crack to double check the clearness of the coast, then high tail it out the door without so much as splashing tepid water on his shitty digits.
As you can well imagine, I have no such embarrassment. I have zero qualms about vigorously pumping a plunger amidst cacophonous splashes of fetid water in a busy office restroom. But I prefer not to plunge if I can help it. I find it to be a thrilling game to keep flushing until the water is just below the rim, let it slowly drain through what little space is left around the compact mass of crap and soggy toilet paper, and begin flushing again. In fact, I was engaged in just such a battle last week when someone entered the mens room and situated himself in stall one. I kept flushing and flushing and flushing throughout his entire movement. Just as he wiped, buckled, and zipped, I gave the toilet lever another firm press, and WOOOSHHHH! Down went the remains of the day in an explosive denouement worthy of a film in the Die Hard series. I pumped my fist into the air in victory, and shouted "YES!"
As I was washing my hands, the anonymous porcelain jockey from the next stall exited. He looked at the floor, doing everything in his power to avoid eye contact. But he couldn't spoil my victory. Before he could saddle up to the sink, I looked directly at him, caught his gaze, and declared, "I win."
Keeping the secret of a dirty ass could mean quietly sweating while hovering over a bowl of swirling wicker, trying to out wait the guy in the next stall. "Please leave, please leave, please leave!" And at long last, he hears the rustling of toilet tissue, the clinking of a belt buckle, the running of a faucet, and the echo of footsteps out the door, trailing down the hall to silence. Not wanting to risk being caught, he can nary afford nary a moment to unplug the commode by furiously plunging at it like he's churning butter. He's already churned enough butter for today, thank you very much. No, it would seem the best course of action would be to open the stall door just a crack to double check the clearness of the coast, then high tail it out the door without so much as splashing tepid water on his shitty digits.
As you can well imagine, I have no such embarrassment. I have zero qualms about vigorously pumping a plunger amidst cacophonous splashes of fetid water in a busy office restroom. But I prefer not to plunge if I can help it. I find it to be a thrilling game to keep flushing until the water is just below the rim, let it slowly drain through what little space is left around the compact mass of crap and soggy toilet paper, and begin flushing again. In fact, I was engaged in just such a battle last week when someone entered the mens room and situated himself in stall one. I kept flushing and flushing and flushing throughout his entire movement. Just as he wiped, buckled, and zipped, I gave the toilet lever another firm press, and WOOOSHHHH! Down went the remains of the day in an explosive denouement worthy of a film in the Die Hard series. I pumped my fist into the air in victory, and shouted "YES!"
As I was washing my hands, the anonymous porcelain jockey from the next stall exited. He looked at the floor, doing everything in his power to avoid eye contact. But he couldn't spoil my victory. Before he could saddle up to the sink, I looked directly at him, caught his gaze, and declared, "I win."
































Howdy do, readers. My name's Gary Westin. Most folks call me Big Gary or Double G or Lo-Tide. You can call me anything you darn well please lessin' it's late for dinner! I've been going to Old Country Buffet purt near every day (sometimes twice a day) for over 25 years. That's 25 years packed with 2 wives, 4 kids, and a bout or two with a bowel obstruction. Diabetes too. In other words OCB is like my second home. They've seen me through some rough times folks. So I hope you can hear me out here and don't think me to be a crackpot or looney. 


