I should hope not, but when I first read the thread title I thought, “Is someone in his hall shitting in the elevator?”
From what I recall from living in the dorms at college…you’d be surprised.
I remember hearing that someone had taken a shit in the corner of the rec room in the basement of our dorm. The strange part was that most of who heard about it shrugged and said “Well, at least it wasn’t in the elevator.”.
Ava
People are supposed to avoid fecal elimination for two hours so as to avoid disturbing your shower time?
Hmmmm…
Sounds reasonable to me! Why should you have to arise fifteen minutes early to enjoy a shower in the optimal setting? You shouldn’t! You are, after all, the King (or Queen) of Dormland; order the peons to regulate their guts so that they don’t foul your shower air.
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In short: Be serious, man. You really can’t expect people to regulate their bodily functions to your liking.
Lighten up, Dignan. Part of everyday life is doing your three s’s in the morning: showering, shitting, and shaving.
People in your dorm are awake before 10 am?
Just shower at night, man. Having to take a shower is a far less urgent thing than shitting.
Or buy a pair of noseplugs.
Or get an apartment.
Or realize that practically every other kid who lives in a dorm is in the same situation and, you know, deals with it.
You would have hated my old university share house. Five bedrooms, 12 occupants (6 female) one bathroom and an ensuite (but we were growing dope in there so it was locked up tighter than a dolphins freckle)
Basically there was one shower and one toilet for all of us and they were both in the same room. In the morning it was common place to leave the door unlocked in case someone wanted to use the loo, shave, do make up, clean teeth while you were in the shower. If you locked the door someone would pick the lock to get in anyway. We would try and go in with our SO’s to save time but often there were one or two extras in there shaving, shitting or whacking on the spak filla. We were and still are great mates so no one really got that flustered about the situation.
That house is probably the reason why the occupants are still all best mates, take holidays together and nothing is to TMI to talk about! Once you’ve heard your mates girlfriend fart while having a shit while your taking a shower in the same room and she’s talking about so an so to your girlfriend who’s putting on makeup…there is nothing to hide anyway.
Ah, Dignan, my poor, overly protected, unnecessarily sensitive young person. If you are very, very lucky someday you will spend time in a squad bay barracks–one room with ten sinks along one wall and ten commodes along the other. In the evenings you may sit on the commodes, cheek to jowl with your comrades-in-arms, polishing boots and doing your daily evacuation. It is surprising how quickly one can adjust to conditions when there are no viable alternatives. You might try it.
I don’t know about elevators, but the stairwells were popular shitting spots in the dorms at my old school. They had to close down one wing once when someone took a particularly nasty one and put everyone in hotels for a week. I was glad to be a commuter that week.
GMR - Our dorm is OK, but another dorm on campus, which is much more party central than here, constantly has stairwells reeking of piss. What the fuck is wrong with people?
On the other hand, being able to say that you took a shit so foul that it shut down a college dorm for a week is pretty darn special.
LC
I shit at the same time every morning. 7am - each day, like clockwork. Trouble is, I don’t get up until quarter past…
Well, it looks like some people need to work on their humor detectors (or I need to be more over the top when I’m being faceitous). This is a half-hearted rant at best. While the aroma certainly isn’t something I enjoy, I’m not so conceited that I think people should alter the lives for me. At best I was hoping for a little advice, similar humorous anecdotes, and a few bad puns.
Well, that’s different then.
I’d make an offering with reference to GMRyujin’s anecdote, based on a cleverly ambiguous use of the word “evacuate,” but I can’t be arsed.
I dunno, I don’t see stairs and say, “Huh! Pretty nice setup! All it’s missing is some of my shit!” In a literal sense.
Now, keep in mind this is secondhand, just what I heard from my friends in the dorm. So I have no cites. But it was apparently the odor and the, um, extreme quantity of the stairwell dump that required shutting the wing down.
If this is the biggest problem that you have in your life then kiss my butt. Give me a break! Whine, whine, whine… go get some air freshener yourself and spray when you need to. Get off your pedastal and get real. Sorry but this is NO real problem. Just you wait, hun, until you get out of college. Then the fun will really start.
Whats wrong with shitting at the same time each day? Damn, I would love to do that.
(And no, shitting in an elevator is never a good idea.)
I think it would be easier, and more appropriate, if the you (the OP) just changed the time in which you showered, if all the shitting that takes place in the morning bothers you so much.
Instead of showering in the morning, shower at night. That way, three things happen:
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You don’t have to deal with as many shitters.
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You go to bed all nice and clean.
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You can sleep in more in the morning.
Ahhhh… college and shit.
One year, some stranger left a load that was about two feet long, and probably four inches in diameter. Part of it hung off the toilet seat. IT was the largest human bowel movement I’ve ever seen. The stall was a campus tourist attraction for a week, until the cleaning lady got tired of it and sent the log on its merry way to the sewage treatment plant.
I don’t really care when people shit in my dorm bathroom. I just wish they would flush.