Professors poop?
I'm sorry but there are just some people I don't want to run into in a bathroom. Professors are some of those people. Something about them being really smart, and teaching me means I don't want to know that they poop. It just seems weird! I mean, they aren't supposed to need grains to help it come out. Or need less beans to make it less gassy. It just shouldn't happen!
I know everybody poops, I've read the book. But I am just not convinced that evolution didn't go awry with making people in the teaching business have to go #2.
or #1 for that matter.
They should make seperate bathrooms for my superiors.
13 September 2006 11:38pm UTC • 666 views • 6 comments
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Robert
14 September 2006 03:33am UTC
"They should make seperate bathrooms for my superiors."
If I was one of the female tsp readers I would say something about how they already do have separate women's bathrooms.
Completely in love with Benjamin
14 September 2006 02:15pm UTC
you beat me to the punch.
The Anonymous Poppy
15 September 2006 02:54am UTC
Oh, snap! That was pretty great, Robert.
But I definitely agree with you, Ben. I mean, I'm just a student, not an employee, and I hate seeing profs go into the bathroom! And to hear someone who is as generally comfortable with poop as you are say so is quite validating.
Robert
15 September 2006 04:06am UTC
Senior year I would run into the guy who runs the mechanical engineering shop occasionally in the bathroom. I hated that.
But then he was an asshat and I hated running into him anywhere, so maybe that doesn't count.
Carpenter Courtney
15 September 2006 02:57pm UTC
One of the perks of being one of the 5 women in the department is that only 2 of them are my superiors, and I don't really lose any respect for them by knowing their bathroom habits. Plus, the restroom doesn't get a lot of traffic.
johnkooz
18 September 2006 10:18am UTC
Hey Benjie! Great site and interesting post, as well. Gotta love the breadth of suitable, relative, and intriguing material presentable on the blogosphere.
Anyway, the "pooping" dilemma/pheonomenon works on the other side of things. Have you ever "been" a "superior" (as you put it) or someone teaching the class or giving a lecture and the intestinal inclination becomes incited? I've experienced this as a student -- witnessing the awkwardness -- of seeing professors teach and then nature calls upon them, and a few sparse times giving a presentation myself (even if it was presenting as a student) and the social discomfort with bms is a constant.
Personally, the rare, but personally-appreciated, times when I got to "present" something, I felt much more uncomfortable using the bathroom than seeing a professor using it.
Here's a funny one. I saw Tony Robbins -- the motivational speaker -- in Denver and my roommate, who was also a "crew member" who worked at the show pointed out that during the 8-10 hour days, the guy never goes to the bathroom. He never leaves the stage -- he does other things -- but he never bloody urinates. Regardless of whether that is "bizarrely alien" or merely impressive, it oversteps the entire subject matter of this blog entry!