Re: Why I hate port a potties
Date: November 02, 2010 11:32PM
airlit Wrote:
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> I have been working for Habitat for Humanity doing
> construction for the past 10 months, and while I
> love my job, by far the worst part is dealing with
> port a potties.
>
> Yesterday, I was at the worksite and I just
> couldn't hold it in any longer. I went into our
> port-a-potty and sat down to poo. For anyone who
> has used port-a-potties a lot, you know that one
> of the terrible side effects, aside from the
> general grossness of port a potties, is the
> feeling of blue chemically laced pee/poo sludge
> water from previous users splashing back in/on
> your butt as you drop one from about three feet
> up.
>
> To deal with this, I have come up with a variety
> of techniques, including my favorite, placing a
> little toilet paper raft into the poo hole to
> catch your poo and drop it gently into the vat of
> shit, however this isn't always possible when the
> shit vat has not yet changed phase from liquid -->
> solid sludge. I also try to shape my poo into
> longer logs in order to lessen the drop and reduce
> impact upon point of contact with liquid.
>
> So there I was, trying to wiggle my butt into a
> long log of poop, when it broke off in the middle
> and *splash*, there goes the most vile filth
> splashing everywhere on my ass. It is times like
> this recently when I pause, sigh, and ask God why
> he does these things when I am trying to do good
> things for the world and be a good person.
>
> I reach over to the toilet paper roll to wipe off
> this nastiness as best as I can, and as I do so,
> pause, sigh, and ask God why he does these things
> as I notice that there is no toilet paper in the
> port a potty.
>
> After weighing my options for a few seconds, I
> realize I'm just going to have to zip up and deal.
> As I'm pulling up my pants, feeling this gross
> sludge drip down my leg, and having an
> existentialist moment questioning life, I walk ten
> feet over to our government van to see if there is
> any sort of paper product I can use to wipe up
> without my coworkers noticing.
>
> I spend about five minutes looking around, and the
> most absorbent thing I have found up to this point
> is a bunch of crayola crayon wrappers, which I am
> seriously considering stripping off the crayons
> and using. However, a few moments later I spot out
> of the corner of my eye a cottonny-looking thing.
> It is a maxi pad.
>
> "No, I can't do this," I think to myself. "This is
> beyond ridiculous." But ridiculous times cause for
> ridiculous deeds, and I think What Would MacGuyver
> Do as I grab the pad and go back to the port a
> potty. After wiping myself off, I look at this
> blue water stained, poo stained, pee stained maxi
> pad and think, "What on earth am I going to do
> with this thing?" I think back to high school
> chemistry class and buoyancy vs. density. Will
> this maxi pad float above the shit-water and mock
> me, being visible to everyone else who uses the
> port a potty for the rest of the week? Or will it
> sink mercifully to the bottom, hiding all evidence
> of my grossness? It is a tough and thoughtful
> decision, but eventually I guess that the pad will
> sink, and boy am I happy when I am right!
>
> This temporary joy is fleeting, though, as I
> realize how pathetic I have become at being happy
> that my shit-stained maxi pad is sinking to my
> cheers and fist-pumping adulation - that is why I
> HATE port a potties.
me thinks that's admirable.
what do you look like, airlit?
yeefuckinghaw