She Tooted
My friends and I used to go out to lunch on the weekends. Having a sensitive stomach but a hard head, I would often hop on the bandwagon to a small Chinese buffet—the likes of which was typically only populated by us, the waitresses, and maybe a rogue Mexican family, no matter what time of day.
My boyfriend and our friends, all husky fellows with cast-iron guts, were rarely offended by the greasy and questionably prepared items there. Even though I stuck mainly to vegetables and crab rangoons, it seemed that each time I ate at the restaurant in question I was left with a terrible case of the bubble-guts.
Compounding my hard head and sensitive stomach is a profound embarrassment for most things poop, and thus, I am not one to proudly declare my intentions to shit up a storm, no matter who I am with. Accordingly, on this one fine Saturday I dismissed myself to the bathroom, breaking into a cold sweat as I turned the corner to the ladies’ room.
Upon entering, I quickly scanned the spaces beneath the three stalls. No one! I dropped trou and the levies broke for a miraculous moment. But I barely had a moment to myself before I heard another lady enter the room. Waves pounding through my head; embarrassment looming, I wanted nothing
more than to be at home in my own bathroom, trumpeting and dumping without shame.
I recognized the shoes of the lady – she was a waitress. All of them were very dainty oriental women who I honestly could not distinguish from one another. Her arrival temporarily frightened my liquid shits away from salvation, though I know the stench loomed. I tried to suppress myself as best I could. But then came the most awkward situation I had yet to face in a semi-public setting:
She tooted.
Every woman knows that sound, and many have done it themselves when they intend only to pee but instead end up ripping a high-pitched, unmistakable fart that resounds fearlessly throughout the bathroom. Those like me may try to disguise it with a cough or a scuff of the shoe, but everyone knows exactly what it is. So meanwhile, I fought off a considerable load of gut soup when I, well…farted. I could not stop them coming, even using the muffle-it-with-the-toilet-paper trick.
She farted again, and I as well, combined with the sounds of her effortless peeing, mocking my discomfort. It was the most awkward, foul badinage that one could experience. I wasn’t sure whether to giggle or not, but I did find humor in this most dire of situations.
Eternities later, she finally left the bathroom, and I was allowed to execute the contents of my stomach in peace. Needless to say, I meekly exited the bathroom and shiftily glanced around for the shoes connected to the woman I had to avoid. However, one waitress was indiscernible from the next, so I had to hurry my gluttonous friends out without appearing too urgent.
No, I don’t want ice cream; let’s go!