I know sometimes it cannot be helped. When you’ve got to go, you’ve got to go. OK, I understand that. But if you have a routine where you shit at the same time every morning maybe you need to look at changing your timing.
I’m not calling for a stop to shitting altogether; I just want a cease fire. Now maybe it’s just me, but with communal bathrooms, you need to have some respect for your fellow members in the dorm community. This means that you are courteous enough not to drop a steaming load every morning when people are in the same bathroom trying to shower.
Look, whoever did the layout obviously thought people would have enough common sense not to subject their neighbors to such vicious odors at such an inappropriate time. Obviously, that isn’t true. As I said, I’m not saying no one can shit ever, I’m just saying that maybe there should be a cease fire every morning from 6:30 am to 8:30 am. A break in hostilities. Two hours. That’s it. Two hours isn’t too long to wait, and after those two hours people can shit to their heart’s content.
True, the odor is an effective way of waking people up, but that does not make it OK. Hold it for two hours. That’s all I’m asking. I’m sure a biological schedule for one person is easier to switch than it would be for an entire floor to change their classes. Do the right thing and observe the two hour window.
Note: In the event that the two hour window is in effect and a person still needs to go, shitting in the elevator is not an acceptable alternative. Ever.
Toilets are for defecating. The human body has quite a few vagaries, and to expect everyone to march in lockstep so no one poops while someone is using the bathroom but not pooping is unreasonable.
Far, far better for someone to shit while I’m in the shower than for that person to shit while she is in the shower, believe me. The floor below us used to have that problem quite regularly. :eek:
I think maybe you should just ask that the person bring a little can of air freshener with them. I don’t think it’s reasonable expect someone to hold a big steaming load for a few hours. Some can’t do that. When you gotta go, you gotta go.
You live in a dorm, you’re a college-aged kid, have some fun with it… Put up the “No shitting between 6:30-8:30am” sign on the bathroom door. Get people to sign it (hopefully not IN shit, though). Or designate the multiple bathrooms on the floor as the shitting bathroom and the showering bathroom. Think up clever punishments for the rulebreakers. Have fun!
Do what fatdave says, and I wager you’ll have people coming from other dorms just to shit during the “no shitting” periods. Plus I also wager you’ll be labeled “the shit freak” in no time.
I don’t see the problem. The bathroom is the appropriate place for shitting. It’s all part of sharing a bathroom. I don’t see that the shitter is doing anything wrong, and if you suggested to me that I shouldn’t shit while you’re in the dorm-floor bathroom, I would either laugh at you or get pretty angry, depending on your tone.
Here’s an even better idea! Don’t breathe during that time. It shouldn’t be too hard to wat just a couple of hours before succombing to the nasty urge to breathe.
Besides, people who breathe when they know other people are evacuating their bowels are just plain inconsiderant.
btw, I know my spelling reeks, but I don’t give a shit.
NoClueBoy, I can change my sleeping patterns in two days no problem. I understand other … “schedules” might take a little more … adjusting.
fatdave, I agree with Qadgop, that making it known (in the dorm) that I’m not a fan of other people shitting while I’m trying to shower would only add to my troubles. Good idea though.
Lord Ashtar, I consider one time to be a problem. Thankfully I wasn’t the one that found it.
Would a one hour no shitting ordinance be out of the question? One thing’s for sure, it sure gets me to hurry up and get ready for the day faster. When I hear the serial shitter come in I do what I’ve got to do to get out of there.
My resident advisor recently decorated our suite with xeroxes from an early-20th-century “healthy lifestyle” manual. Now, when I use one of the toilet stalls, I’m facing a clipping with the words “AVOID CONSTIPATION,” followed by several tips on how to do so. Among them: “Make it a habit to sit on the stool the same hour each day.”
It seems to me that this would require some people to shit after their shower, which is pointless and stupid.
Morning is the time for shitting. The optimal time is at some point after waking but before showering. Trying to schedule things so that everybody shits before anybody showers would be nightmarish from a logistical point of view, and asking people to wait until after they shower to defecate is just nasty, unless you have a bidet-equipped campus, which seems doubtful, somehow.
Your fellow students should be less-than-perfectly-clean to suit your convenience? Don’t you get dizzy, what with the world revolving around you and all, Dignan?
What a bizarre rant. I could see a rant that went something like “sometimes it really sucks to have to share a dorm bathroom and shower in a cloud of stank”. Most people would be on board with you there. But “I think it’s reasonable to ask people not to shit for the two-hour period when most of my showering occurs” is kind of out there. Were you that one really anal complaining kid that is required by federal law to be present for every elementary school field trip and summer camp term?
Hell, just use a strongly scented shampoo or something. I consider having to share a bathroom with a floor full of people who enjoy drinking until they vomit all over the place to be significantly worse than sharing a bathroom with people who shit in the morning.
In a totalitarian, TBC (Total Bowel Control) society, no. In a democracy, yes. Attempts to regulate other people’s bowel functions strike me as not a good thing.
