Well here are a few stories you probably won’t hear from a racer. But these stories hit the field with a splat. We I’m sure most of us racers have experienced some of these whether we want to admit it or not.
-Burning toilet paper trash and placed on some siding to keep the ashes down. It got hot and exploded! – see “explosion in the wc” blog (Moldova)
-You know everyone else has diarrhea when you use the same outhouse and can see it all on the dirt bank running down. (Moldova)
-I fell in the sewage drainage ditch one night in India; lucky it was dry!
– There are fresh piles of poop on the roadside each morning, discovered as we run down the road in India.
-If someone is “crouching down” in a field in India they are pooping.
-There was a calf tied up in our prayer circle that started peeing during prayer. Step away from the run off! (India)
-Elephants poop is the size of coconuts (Nepal)
-When you live in a room with 6 guys and the bathroom has no ceiling you get woke up in the morning by strange sounds. (Swaziland)
-When cleaning the poop out of a goose pond it splatters everywhere. I tasted some when it hit my face. However it is cooling and nice between the toes. (Swaziland)
-I puked in the shark cage amongst my friends, who surfaced out of the water potentially in it. (South Africa)
– Little fish will eat what you feed them when you hurl it over the side of the boat. (South Africa)
– One individual was sweeping the floor. “I just pooped my pants” (Thailand)
-I was in the man stall of a coed bathroom knowing that the sounds of the person farting like a metronome in upwards of twenty 4/4 beats a measure was a girl. (Cambodia)
-Nothing grosser than taking a shower next to a clogged toilet from the night before. (Cambodia)
-A giant cockroach ran over my foot that someone left underneath the plunger. (Cambodia)
– An ipod was dropped into a squatty. One man’s arm was long enough to retrieve it, and it still works! (Malaysia)
-Sometimes there is no water upstairs, so you have to go take buckets from downstairs to fill up the tank to flush! (Malaysia)
-After talking about poop stories one evening I learned the chords B and Bm “bowel movement” on the guitar!!! (Hong Kong)
-So kids wear pants with slits in them so they can squat anywhere. Pee and poop all over the sidewalks. (China)
-Saw several monks squatting with their long robes using cellular devices. (China)
-Looking out a restaurant window we saw people’s heads pop up from behind the wall next to the canal. I later walked over to affirm my suspicions. Many neat piles all in a row. (China)
Squatty’s on trains are fun! (China)
Squatty canals have been spotted (Cambodia)
“Don’t lose your balance!”
“Some people just can’t make it in”
“What is the hose next to the toilet for?”
“get your poop in a group”
“ I’ve got some solid news”
“Cry baby Cry, momma in the toilet whah whah” – a swazi children song/saying
Some stories from other racers that I heard:
– “Not only did they poop their own pants, they pooped their contacts pants that were loaned to them.”
– Two girls were walking along and were coming up to a guy standing next to a little 2 inch round tree. “There’s no way he could be” well he was, they saw everything!
It’s a really sad thing but they recently found out that having diarrhea is genetic. Because it runs in the jeans! We all have poop in our lives that we must deal with in order to move on. I think the movie Frozen says it best
“Well now they know
Let it go, let it go
Can’t hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn away and slam the door
I don’t care what they’re going to say
Let the storm rage on.”
We all have problems. Sometimes they are messy and we need help. Share your struggles and concerns with someone. We all need help to get through tough times, don’t be afraid to let it go and let others know what you are going through.
