The Commute: Or How I Shit in a Boy Scout Campground and Ended up with Dookie All Ove
The morning started off as usual. Get up too early. Make some coffee. Slam down some Honey Nut Cheerios. Crap a bunch. And try to get out of the house by 6:30 for my 1 hour 15 minute commute to work. Well, already its 6:38 am as I’m giggleing my Ipod around looking for the New Deftones. I finally leave and get onto 87 and it starts pouring rain, but not bad enough that you need to do 45mph or anything…but I guess I was wrong. What the hell do I know about driving in Jersey?
So I’m sipping on my coffee in my not so new, but greatly treasured stealth black WAWA coffee cup when I feel that rumble. No, not the rumble strips on the side of the road because you are falling asleep. The dreaded Gut rumble. The sensation that sends chills up any commuter’s spine. You know the one. We’ve all been there at least once…some more than others. You’re just humming along to Ah Ha’s “Take on me”, next thing you know your white-knuckle driving trying not to fart cause you know it isn’t gonna be gas coming out.There I am doing 90 on 87 in the rain trying to get to exit 18. It’s to the point where I’m actually propping myself up off the seat with my left leg so there is no pressure on my puckering heiney hole. Then all the sudden it’s over. Nothing. No poo pains. No rumble. Just sweet sweet silence. I get to the exit, look at the gas station, and then continue my drive.
Now I should know myself better by now. You see, I’m no stranger, by any means, to the commuter gut rumbles. We are good friends…or bitter enemies. You decide.So like a complete moron, a title I gladly accept, I continue down the back roads toward Sometown, NJ. The rumble isn’t even a rumble now. It’s developed into some kind of searing pain accompanied by occasional burping. Yes…I’m burping now. So it’s coming and going. Teasing me like the promise of a basket of Red Lobster biscuits, only to find out they are out. Then you see a 5 year old walk by your table with one and you contemplate pushing him down and stealing it, only to realize he’s a cripple and THAT wouldn’t be cool. Moving on. I finally pull into Sometown, about 15 minutes late. I eye the gas station but the rumbling is gone. Where the fuck did it go!? By this point I’ve been sweating, then freezing, then rinse and repeat for about 20 minutes. I debate stopping and forcing one out, but decide I’m okay and continue on. What an idiot.
As soon as I get on the 4 foot wide bridge, it hits me like some crazy demon spawn ready to claw out of my abdomen like Sigourney Weaver did in that movie about the Alien. I forget what it was called….Anyhoo, I’m about to crap my pants. I’ve feared this for months now, knowing full well that this day would arrive. I was bound to crap my pants on the way to work. I guess it’s a trade off though. Drink coffee. Stay awake. Don’t die in a fiery ball of flaming car, or crap my pants? Tough decision I know, but I chose to crap my pants. So here is my day of reckoning. All those mornings I had fought off the demon was about to come crashing down.
Now, I don’t like to just give in. I’m willing to do just about anything in my power to avoid butt mud. Through my past career as a landscaper in the Philadelphia area I developed the art of “commando crapping,” as I’ve so wittingly titled it. This is not to be confused with “Going” commando, or the act of not wearing any undies. Commando Crapping is the art of pooping, outside, in highly populated and developed areas. Such acts have included the back of a truck under a tarp into a bucket….so you get the idea. Anyway, I got into commando mode.Scanning my memory for discreet places along the road, the demon baby growing in my stomach is now starting to pop its head out and smell the world for the first time.
As my Ipod blares away, Megadeth’s “Symphony of Destruction” comes on to only drive home this already ironic debacle. As I’m cursing Dave Mustaine and his infectious riffs, circa the year of our lord 1992, an idea bursts into my head. The BOY SCOUTS!!! Now, the boy scouts are always prepared. Not ever becoming a boy scout and maintaining my anal virginity to this day, I do still subscribe to this well coined phrase. The Boy Scout Camp is coming up on the right. They have a parking lot up on the hill. Hopefully a porta-john or at least some cover. Sweet baby Jesus I am saved!
So I make the 180 degree turn up the hill into the parking lot. No porta-jon and another car. No cover cause its fall you idiot. Fuck it! My insides are done. I make a hard turn, skid to a stop and throw it in park. I grab my napkins, jump out of the still running car, and do a quick scan of the area. Whether I was ok or not, it didn’t matter. I had to deliver this anal baby. Did I mention it was raining? Not thinking, I drop trou and fire projectile diarrhea all over the side of my car as I had not stopped long enough to judge the distance or the immense pressure that had been building up for 40 minutes. But god damn did it feel good. I mean REALLY good. The sweet euphoria only a fight for life dump can deliver. So I wipe my ass, look at my car, and think quietly to myself “It is raining!” Problem solved. Should just wash right off! Car still running I jump in and peel out like Burt Reynolds in that movie with the car.
As I’m reveling in my latest Commando Crap, it hits me. I just shit in a Boy Scout parking lot. Not in the woods. Not even close, but right in the middle. Smack dab in the middle of an empty parking lot. As I sped away down the road, it dawned on me again….It’s RAINING! Therefore, I have come to the conclusion that rain cures all. I feel kind of bad about relieving myself in a parking lot, but I’m sure it’s no more offensive than the decaying Opossum I just ran over. Rain washes away poo a lot easier than Opossum.I step out of my car at work expecting to see dookie covering the side of my car like flames on a hot rod, but only see the mud under my wheel wells that I kicked up while driving across someone’s lawn to avoid a broken down school bus only minutes before. Thinking to myself, I wonder if public Pooping is worse than Public Urination. Then I wonder if it was really “Public.” Now as I write this, I’ve decided to change the names of the roads, towns, and Boy Scout Camps to protect my little Pile of Poo in hopes it can get washed away and find its way back to the sea to be reunited with his family. Fair thee well Dookie.