…just started doing my business and had this weird flutter on my kidney?
I panicked and stopped, then I started to pee again and there was that same odd throbbing…my liver?
I immediately stopped again. Nothing so I started to pee again and this time the throbbing was even worse!
Hypochondriac that I am, I quickly envisioned an emergency organ transplant and a flurry of friends and relatives gathering at my bedside while I lay comatose…
…and then, I realized I had left my cell phone on vibrator, in my pants pocket.
I can stop mid-stream if I didn’t have to go really, really bad to begin with. But if I’ve been waiting for a couple hours, the flood gates have been opened, my friend…there’s no turning back.
I had to google that Kegel Exercise. Sounds as though it could allow one to control flow.
Yes, I find it difficult to stop mid stream, especially when I have to go bad. It was a game of mine when I was younger, trying to stop the flow because the fate of loved ones depended on it. Weird little game.
Oh, this reminds me of a story my brother told me. I don’t know how true it is because he himself heard it from someone else…
Apparently, a man and his wife were in the middle of a long road trip and, while driving down the road, the man decides that he has to go to the bathroom. Instead of pulling over (he was making great time!) he decides to go in a cup. He has his wife hold the wheel while he proceeds to piss in the only available container, a small coffee cup. The cup wasn’t big enough to hold all much, so he would have to pinch it off, and dump the contents out the window, then “refill” the cup until he was empty…at least that was the plan. So he fills up the cup and pinches it off to stop the flow. He carefully goes to dump the cup out the window, but as he does, clips the cup on the doors edge. Through force of habit, he puts his other hand under cup. As a result, he is now hosing down the inside of his car, his wife, himself, all will driving down the highway with another full cup of piss in his hands. Way to go.
Richard Pryor has a whole bit on this topic in one of his standup films. Absolutely hilarious.
And since I saw it when I was a kid (my dad was a big fan, and it rubbed off), I was inspired to try this myself. With a little effort, I acquired a skill that has lasted my whole life. I can shut off the stream instantly at a moment’s notice and hold it as long as I need to.
Maybe not something that goes on the ol’ resume, but… then again maybe it is.