The Most Confident Man I Ever Encountered

Brian Rooney
The Spinchoon
Published in
4 min readAug 27, 2019

The story I am about to tell you is a true story. When something starts with that explanation you know it’s going to get weird.

It was a normal workday. Going through my normal daily tasks, so far it was a good day. It was a good time to take a break so I start to walk over to the restroom. This restroom is a medium size public restroom. It has about five urinals on one wall and about the same number of stalls across from it. That information is not really needed for what happened next, so I apologize for wasting your time.

https://brocode.org/a-quick-guide-to-urinal-etiquette/
Generally accepted Men’s Room etiquette

I walk in and start to head to one of the urinals. I never like to go to the first one because of…reasons… so I was heading to the last one. I took a few steps and then out of my peripheral vision I caught sight of something I will never forget.

I was a little startled by what I thought I was looking at, so I turned my head to look, and what I saw was just unbelievable to me. It was a man, sitting on the toilette with the stall door wide open, doing number two.

Now that what I thought I saw was confirmed, I was even more startled by this that my reaction still puzzles me a little.

Before you read my reaction, think about what your honest in the moment reaction would be, if you went into a public restroom and saw a man taking a shit with the door open.

I stopped dead in my tracks and searched for the words and what came out was, “Uh I’m sorry”.

This man caught me so off guard that he made me feel like I was wrong while he sits in a PUBLIC RESTROOM with his pants at his ankles, door wide open, just doing his business.

He then proceeded to try to explain to me what was going on. He was telling me that when the door is closed he gets very nervous so he has to leave it open.

This opened up more questions for me, which I was not going to explore with this stranger on the toilette, so I just did what I went in there to do, washed my hands, and left.

I went back to my work station and just couldn’t stop thinking about this encounter.

My verdict was: this guy is the most confident human being on the planet. Let’s break this down.

First off: I hate public restrooms. If I have to go number one, no problem, but if it’s number two, there is like a 50/50 chance of me using a public restroom or me just saying screw it and going in my pants. I get nervous when I’m in there and the door is closed. If that door was open and someone came in, just bury me there because I will die of shame.

If I do somehow get the courage to march into that public restroom, I sit there as quietly as possible, go as quickly as possible, and just pray no one comes in. If someone does come in, oh boy. I do not even move. I stop doing what I am doing and just stay as still as possible hoping they don’t notice that someone is in that stall.

https://me.me/i/the-most-silent-creature-on-earth-is-the-guy-who-a295f96726884124ace4d2f97f00cbf0

But not this man. This man not only had the door open, but he also spoke to me, and was ready to make conversation with me while he was sitting on the bowl. If that’s not confidence I don’t know what is.

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