The time: a tad after 2
The place: India. My apartment. The bathroom therein.
Now, let’s be clear- GI distress is generally assumed, if you spend a long time in India. It’s rarely ever bad, but what it is is consistent. For about a month, I had been alternately dealing with mild constipation and mild diarrhea, and after a few cycles I came to await the relief, questionable as it was, brought by the diarrhea.
This time, such relief was not to be had. I had been unable to push anything out for the last 3-4 days, and since I was eating a very small amount at the time, this was not unexpected.
Now perhaps a day before The Incident, I had managed to expedite a minor evacuation fro my my bowels. It was a good Hershey’s kiss or two, a lot to me at the time, but certainly less than one millismurf of excretion.
I’d found that sometimes when I was stopped up it was due to a weak air seal, in which case a bit of fumbling and probing in the spirit of the vaseline maneuver would often expedite things nicely. I tried said maneuver, utilizing India’s marvelously sandpaper-like toilet paper, and had no success. Shrugging, I went about my day.
This brings us back to The Incident. I felt a familiar rumbling in my bowels and made all haste to the lavatory, recognizing the signs and understanding that relief was nigh. Settling on the porcelain throne I found myself trying to read the battlefield, as it were, and predict how the engagement might go. The first meerkat began to peek out of its hole, and I thought to myself “This will be easy- I’ll have to push a bit to work it loose, but we should be done here in no time.”
So I pushed a bit, and the groundhog started inching out of its burrow.
It was at this time that I discovered a) my ham-handed fumbling with toilet paper had rubbed part of my sensitive bits raw, and b) when you’re eating extremely spicy food most days, shit rubbing against raw ass really hurts.
So two hours later I wiped up, this time with wet paper, and went about the business of finding something to do that didn’t involve sitting down for about two days. :smack: