There are times when I feel like I’m made to pay extra attention to a situation in front of me.
One of these situations, I was using the bathroom at my last job. Another senior employee came in and used the urinal. The janitor was also in the bathroom.
Right after the senior employee finished up, the janitor noticed there were a few dribbles of urine on the floor and told the senior employee to “dribble a basketball”. The senior employee quipped back that it just happens when you get older.
I am 32 years old and within the past year this has started happening to me as well. It’s like I have very little control over getting the last little bit out. It takes an extraordinary amount of effort and time to get all of it out. Just over a year ago, when I urinated, it was 1 strong steady stream all the way until the end. If there was any more after the main stream, it came out as 1 strong pulse, none of it went on the floor.
Today, it’s like a game standing over the toilet. The urge frequently goes away right as I consciously go to start my stream. Then, I have to fight, hard, internally, to get it to start. If I plug my nose and ears, I can usually get it to start within 30 seconds. I’m sure you can imagine what kind of disasters can unfold if I do this frequently. If I don’t, it could be upwards of 5 minutes until I’m able to get a stream started. Then, sometimes, it will stop mid-stream, and I have to fight to get it started again. After the main stream has ended, little bits will dribble out, and if I’m not over the toilet, it goes onto the floor. I have no control over this. Somebody else does though. Why would I say that? There have been 2 or 3 urinations within the past year where it went like it did over a year ago.
Another note, it seems like I’m only ever able to empty my bladder half-way. There have been a few times where after I was assuredly done, and I would get the urge again and another stream would start just as long as the first one. Those 2 or 3 times are the only times I’ve felt fully relieved after using the bathroom within the past year.
This goes hand-in-hand with stopping defecation mid-way. The people who are doing this are playing games with people’s biology. It is caused by a human being, not a natural medical condition. There is no known medical condition that can stop stool from coming out half-way and then prevent you from pushing any more. If I plug my nose and ears while defecating, this never happens.
If this happens to you, I am sorry. The people who are doing this deserve to sit in a box for the rest of their lives. The only way I know to protect myself is plugging nose and ears, but it’s not 100% effective. Sometimes, to get my stream started, I have to plug and unplug my nose and ears multiple times.
I am still working on finding an authority to deal with this, but it seems like we are all on our own. Taking a scientific outlook is the only way forward. Be patient with those who think aliens or demons are doing this, try to explain how it is much more likely to be an evil piece of shit human being. Jeffrey Dahmer was killing people trying to make sex robots by drilling into their skulls. The police say he was just dumping caustic chemicals down there, but he died a year after I was born. I can’t find evidence of criminals doing similar things, but do you really think it has stopped?