I recently finished my studies and started at my new job Wednesday last week.
Monday I come to work. I chit chat a little with the receptionist who had been on extended weekend the week before. I knew her from having a practical period in the company as a part of my time studying, so I wanted to say hi and tell her I got the job she knew I had applied for.
I head on to the basement to shower and change clothes. I bicycle to work, so this is a staple as I'm often drenched and sweaty when I get to work.
In front of the changing room there's a small hall with four doors. Two toilets and two locker rooms M/F. And it stinks in here. Like getting to the bathroom right after your dad on a bad day. I take one step into the hall and simultaneously with noticing the small red dot next to the door handle indicating, that one of the toilets is taken, I start to get the taste of the fart in my mouth. Again, I know that you know the feeling from heading in to a war zone post a dad-visit.
I head on towards the second door from the left to get to the changing room. As I do, I pass right by the toilet in use, and just as I pass through the door to the changing, I breath in. And I can feel it. I can feel the fart in my lungs. I can feel the fart in my lungs the same way as when you inhale a cigarette. and... I grew up on a farm and I'm used to, that things smell the way things smell. That's how it is, but this is something new.
As I get into the changing room to safety, I start to think about the person sitting out there on the shitter, right in the middle of this. With a poopy fart so strong, that it can make it the way to the next room and leaving a mark all the way down in my lungs, I imagine a person sitting in a heat haze like environment, holding on to the walls, struggling barely to stay conscious.
I don't know what more to say about this, except that I've never tried anything like this, and I sure hope that this will be my only time.