Friday, October 15, 2004

Beautiful Memories Of...

Person Who Shat In the Shower

Ah yes. When we look into that dark, murky well of our past, we'll occasionally glimpse a reflection of some long, forgotten life experience that catches us off guard, surprising us that we had ever forgotten it at all.

I was talking to a friend today and mentioned that I refuse to shower in public gym showers. I never really thought about why I won't, and I suddenly remembered today.

When I was 16, I worked as a locker room attendent at an upscale gym. The place catered to a wealthy clientele, and stressed presentation, cleanliness and luxury. I was in charge of everything meeting company standards in the locker room. My first week on the job, I was dismayed to find that people would leave soiled diapers and used maxipads and tampons in the showers. I had to dutifully expose of them, but I managed to do this task with the aid of thick pairs of gloves and a lot of mental detachment. But nothing prepared me for the mysterious PERSON WHO SHAT IN THE SHOWER. Yes, there was someone, either a woman or a man passing himself off as a woman, who was shitting in the showers. I mean, not just an accidental nug or a pile of dump. I mean, they were giving themselves enemas or something, because it would be sprayed all over the walls. And I would have to clean that shit up!

So I plugged on with that job because I wanted to teach myself humility, and because it didn't feel right for me to refuse responsibility just because I didn't want to do something that no one would want to do. So I cleaned up dirty diapers and tampons and buckshotted shit, until thankfully, the shitter, after going to task about 2-3 times a week, began limiting her activities to the occasional monthly splat. Sometimes I wondered if the culprit was someone who worked for my parents, who hated all the status and power they had achieved, who avenged justice by crapping in the showers. Messing with me to get to my parents. Yes...hatred from jealousy can bring out some ugly things in people. And that is such a sad, sad thought.

So in conclusion, seriously yo, don't shower in public showers.