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by Colonel Panic_Archive
I hate shitting in public toilets. Not that it's a phobia or anything as dramatic as that, I just don't like to do it. I have seen things in public bathrooms that have shaken my faith in fellow man. Once in a train station restroom, I saw the letters "F-U-C-I" actually written on a wall in shit. The letter "K" was left unfinished, and on the floor next to the toilet was half a smashed turd, partially wrapped in toilet paper like a big stinky grease pencil. Apparently, the anonymous shit-scribe was only able to get halfway through the letter "K' before his turd-crayon either broke off or smooshed beneath the pressure of his hand.
It's unbelievable that there are motherfuckers out there sick enough to actually do such a thing, but when you consider the logistics... did the guy somehow fish one of his own turds out of the toilet with a strip of toilet paper, or did he place his hand, wrapped in t.p., under his own ass and catch the shit as it extruded out? Maybe he laid a cable on the dry toilet seat first, then picked it up. Was it even his shit, or did it find it already there and say to himself, "Hey, I could write on the wall with this!"...
Now I'm sure you're thinking, "all public restrooms are not that horrible," and this is true, but I can't count the times I've entered a restroom stall to find the seat splattered with somebody's piss. Hell, I have even entered elevators in classy corporate buildings where the stainless steel doors of the elevator car were wiped and smeared with boogers from the nostrils of some degenerate. And these are not isolated occurrences. At my last job I saw that every single day. Somewhere in the company there was an asshole who made a habit out of that disgusting behavior. Besides, that's just an elevator. Imagine what such a person might do in a public toilet. The evidence is there. Some people in this world behave like filthy, horrible scumbags with no regard for others.
In a public toilet, you never know who has used it since the last time it was properly cleaned, so I avoid shitting in public johns as much as possible. It's not difficult to do, either. Under normal circumstances I shit once, maybe twice a day if I've been eating much fruit or drinking a lot of coffee. I've discovered that if I eat an early breakfast or a late dinner, I can alter my own circadian poop-rhythm so I drop my daily deuce right after waking up in the morning. This is ideal because then I can do it in the comfort, privacy and relative cleanliness of my own bathroom.
I really only use public facilities in emergencies, but I'd never make my friends or family leave some place just because I have to take a shit. That's just inconsiderate and dumb. Whenever I do resort to using public toilets, I use toilet paper to cover the seat. for the simple reason that I don't want to sit in somebody else's bodily excretions. I also always wash my hands, and I don't directly touch the door handle on my way out.