Chris Luongo, An Etiquette Question

[Siege]

This is the first time I’ve ever Pitted someone, but it’s been bothering me. In this thread about defecating (Oh hell, this is the Pit, make that “shitting”) in public restrooms, **Chris Luongo said

If my friends are also in there with me, I will often take a moment to make some unkind remarks in the general direction of the offender’s stall, as my friends think it’s hilarious when I do so.

A question for you, sir. If you consider shitting in a facility made for it “inconsiderate”, what do you consider insulting a complete stranger? Personally, I’d consider it the action of a lout and a bully, but that is just MHO. I am genuinely interested in your answer because I still don’t understand how people can behave like that. If you did explain it somewhere in the thread, please accept my apologies and let me know. I may have missed it.

If anyone else out there has explanations or opinions, I’d love to hear them.
CJ

[Drastic]

It was most definitely a bizarre showing. I think later on he backpeddled a little by saying it was only a couple times, and he knows it was mean but still pretty funny. But don’t quote me, it’s hard to read closely while you’re busy shaking your head at the thought of someone painstakingly checking a dayplanner to schedule his bowel movements.

It just occurred to me. He should probably know about this fine book. He could good-bye depression, and make his sphincter even stronger!

[LolaBaby]

Well to be fair, he did post this at the bottom of page 1:

*Originally posted by Chris Luongo *
**Okay, okay, so maybe I’m just nuts. Perhaps I’ll come to accept that one day.

And I think maybe I came across as a little to harsh and insensitive with my original post. I think I did that “Eww! It really stinks in here!” bit maybe twice. And then I came to the conclusion of “Yeah, that was a real hoot; my friends laughed and so did I. And that dude really did stink. But it was very mean, and I shouldn’t do that anymore.” But I still get pretty much the same thought in my mind, even though I don’t say anything. I’m not perfect, but I try to realize that being mean to people doesn’t do much good.

Also, purely by chance, I just now stumbled upon
this post about a disabled woman who suffered a humiliating bathroom accident at a restaurant. Further along in the post, others claim that wheelchair-bound and/or paralyzed people often don’t get the same “early warning” as the rest of us. Reading all that made me think a little more.
**

I think enough of us (including me) ragged on him enough in that thread, I just didn’t think it was really that Pit-worthy, but hey, what do I know?

[Rilchiam]

That was very gentlemanly of you, Chris. Well done.