Precious Bodily Fluids
December 14, 2011 4 Comments
Sometimes I’ll be at the urinal and notice that the guy who came up to the one next to mine flushed it first, before beginning the proceedings. (There are such guys.)
“Because”, I’ll think to myself, “after all, he doesn’t want his precious urine mixing with other peoples’ icky urine in there”.
Is that what it is? I’ve wondered about that – albeit on a subliminal level only – so I’m glad you brought it out into the bright Apollonian light of our consciousness and offered me a answer to my unasked question. Because, often, it is the unasked questions to the subliminal troubles which cause us the deepseated problems.
By the way, I note some resentment on your part that “that guy” doesn’t want to mix his bodily fluids with another man’s bodily fluids. And, I’m guessing it is not the other man with whom you are concerned. Instead, I think you know that that “other man” could, on any given day, have been you. You could have been the guy who urinated, walked away, only to have “that guy” come up and flush away your precious bodily fluids. This is a somewhat hurtful idea. Particularly if the guy saw you standing there and then walking away, and then as you were walking away, you heard him flush. Painful. Yes.
Ouch.
But maybe you could bathe yourself in the schadenfreude that comes along with knowing that, when one is standing in front of a urinal and one flushes, not all of the bodily fluids that were left behind by the first guy would actually go down with the flush. Instead, some of them would, carried by the force of the flush, explode outward onto “that guy”.
Ok, I will bathe myself in that schadenfreude. Thanks for the tip.