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Ok - funny IMLP story...

watchtriguy

Aug 7, 08 11:13

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So I'm standing in line for the porta-potty 20 minutes before the race start, with a million things going through my mind. I get to the front of our line, which is feeding into 4 porta-potties. As I'm waiting for someone to come out, the guy behind me hits my arm and says "Hey, dude - looks like there's nobody in that one." I look, and sure enough, the occupied indicator is green on one of the porta-potties.

Now, you guys know how this works - you never see people go *into* the porta-potties because you're not at the front of the line at that point. When you get to the front of the line, you just wait for people to come out. So it made perfect sense to me that one of the porta-potties would have been unoccupied and it was just that nobody had noticed, what with everyone thinking about the race, and their wetsuit, and did they forget their bodyglide, etc. So I walk over to the porta-potty and fling the door open to go inside.

Now I'll back up for a minute, and speculate on another athlete's activities on that same race morning. While this is speculation, I think it's probably pretty close to reality. We'll call this athlete Joe. Joe had been standing in that same porta-potty line 5 minutes earlier, thinking about his race, his wetsuit, bodyglide, etc. When a porta-potty opened up, Joe went inside. With all of the thoughts going through Joe's head, he forgot to flip the latch on the door to 'occupied'.

After looking at the sorry state of the porta-potty seat, Joe decides not to actually sit on the seat, but to do the 'hover'. So Joe does the 'hover', finishes his business, and now it's time to clean up. Since it's pretty hard to clean up in the 'hover', Joe stands up and bends at the waist in order to perform the cleanup. Of course, with the way porta-potties are built, the only way to do a waist-bend is to stand with your butt facing the door, and bend over with your head toward the back of the porta-potty.

It is at this point that Joe's race morning and mine intersect. I approach the "unoccupied" porta-potty, never once considering that it might, in fact, not be unoccupied, and fling the door wide open.

And about 200 triathletes, family members, and race spectators get a full-on view of Joe, bent over inside the porta-potty, wiping his ass.

masterslacker

Aug 7, 08 11:22

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Re: Ok - funny IMLP story... [watchtriguy] [In reply to]	Can't Post

If there is a line I would never assume there's an empty...definitely funny though for you and not for "Joe".
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Devlin

Aug 7, 08 11:30

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And about 200 triathletes, family members, and race spectators get a full-on view of Joe, bent over inside the porta-potty, wiping his ass.

Bah. You know the rules....pics or it didn't happen. :D
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blavelle

Aug 7, 08 11:37

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Re: Ok - funny IMLP story... [watchtriguy] [In reply to]	Can't Post

no one knocks anymore? yeesh

Spiridon Louis

Aug 7, 08 11:41

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no one knocks anymore? yeesh

nice Fast Times.......... reference

fred_h

Aug 7, 08 11:42

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Re: Ok - funny IMLP story... [blavelle] [In reply to]	Can't Post

[no one knocks anymore? yeesh ]

I had the exact same thoughts.

Fred.

watchtriguy

Aug 7, 08 11:43

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If there is a line I would never assume there's an empty...

Yep - any other time and place, my brain would have reached the same conclusion!

away

Aug 7, 08 11:51

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Re: Ok - funny IMLP story... [watchtriguy] [In reply to]	Can't Post

I probably would have knocked, but I'm glad you didn't for the sheer hilarity of that story!

watchtriguy

Aug 7, 08 11:58

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I probably would have knocked, but I'm glad you didn't for the sheer hilarity of that story!

Fortunately everyone there got a good laugh out of it - even Joe. :)

davidwilkes

Aug 7, 08 13:05

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Re: Ok - funny IMLP story... [watchtriguy] [In reply to]	Can't Post

Haha.. glorious.
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