Welcome to a session of the Toilet Violations Punishment Committee (TVPC) – this writer’s favorite fantasy. The story takes place in a high school not unlike other high schools. In this high school, however, there are strict rules regarding the toileting behavior of the school’s female students. Those who break the school toilet rules (including the rules against going to the bathroom in your pants) are brought before the TVPC to have their cases heard and their punishment given out if they are guilty. Meetings of the TVPC are called to order at 3:10 PM each school day in the TVPC meeting room – Room 222 of the high school. It should be noted that where this story takes place you need to be 18 in order to enter high school so all persons depicted, even though entirely fictional, are at least 18 years of age.
My name is Arnold Ziffel and I’m chairman of the TVPC. What follows are the summary minutes of the TVPC meeting of November 26, 2012.
We begin this afternoon’s session of the Toilet Violations Punishment Committee (TVPC) with a case stemming from the past Thursday. For the 2nd year in a row, our school band had the distinct honor of marching in the world famous Wet Set Thanksgiving Day parade. And I’m pleased to note that, unlike last year, none of the girls in the band had any accidents while marching in the parade. Last year a pretty blonde-haired sophomore named Alissa wet her pants while marching in the parade.
But even though there weren’t any accident offenses of either variety, it doesn’t mean that there aren’t any toilet offenses at all. Unfortunately, Ruthie, a pretty sophomore flute player in the band is accused of 2 toilet violations at the parade. Her first charge is not lifting up the toilet seat prior to squatting over the toilet to urinate and the second charge is actually urinating all over the toilet seat while doing so. Both of these offenses occurred in a port-o-potty that Ruthie was using prior to the start of the parade. Mrs. Duncan, the Assistant Band Director, has filed both Violation Reports in this case. “I had the misfortunate of using that same port-o-potty right after Ruthie did,” Mrs. Duncan reports, “Believe me, it wasn’t a pretty sight.” “There was urine literally dripping off the toilet seat and onto the floor in front of the toilet,” our Assistant Band Director explains, “And there was plenty of it on the side of the toilet, too.” “I have to wonder if Ruthie managed to get any of it actually in the toilet,” she says.
That vivid description raises the issue of whether the tall blonde did it on purpose. Doing it on purpose is, of course, more serious than if she simply had bad aim when she squatted. “Well, she told me it was by accident and I guess I believe her,” Mrs. Duncan says, “But it’s hard to believe a girl could spray it that bad all over the toilet without trying to do it.” Ruthie reacts – dare I say over-reacts – to hearing that. “Oh No! Please!” she practically shrieks in a panic, “I swear I didn’t do it on purpose – It just an accident, I swear.” “How can you think I would do that on purpose,” she pleads, “I would never do anything like that on purpose.” “I’m just not used to squatting over the toilet – That’s all,” she explains. “I tried to get it all in the toilet, I really was trying,” she says, “But my aim was just really bad.”
Both Mrs. Duncan and I motion for tall sophomore flutist to calm down. “We know you didn’t do it on purpose,” I tell her, “We know your toilet record and we know how hard it is for girls to use port-o-pottys sometime.” “It’s just that your aim so bad it SEEMED like you did it on purpose,” Mrs. Duncan explains, “But like Mr. Ziffel said, we believe it was only because you weren’t used to squatting in a port-o-potty.” “Thank you,” Ruthie tells us both, with a noticeable look of relief on her face. “But that’s not to say that you’re going to be let off easy for this,” I quickly point out, “Even accidentally urinating on the toilet seat – Especially as bad as you did it – Isn’t entirely a minor offense.” “And obviously the toilet seat shouldn’t have even been down in the first place,” I point out, “You know very well that if you’re squatting over the toilet, you have to lift the toilet seat up before you do it.” In fact, Ruthie was punished last year for forgetting to lift up the toilet seat while squatting – that time, squatting over the toilet to have a bowel movement. “Yes sir,” she acknowledges, “I just didn’t think about doing that in the port-o-potty.” “Well, your carelessness on both counts is going to cost you,” I explain, “And both of these are, of course, toilet violations while representing the school.” She nods her head in acknowledge of that, but understandably doesn’t look happy. “I get punished for both things?” she asks, “I get punished for urinating on the seat and for leaving the toilet seat down?” “Yes you do,” I tell her, “They are 2 separate violations and you get 2 separate punishments.”
Punishing her first for the more serious offense of urinating on the toilet seat (and doing so while representing the school), she’ll have to write “I will not urinate on the toilet seat in school or at band events again” 300 times. She’ll also have to serve 3 days of bathroom cleaning detention. For failing to lift up the toilet seat, she’ll have to write a 1,000 word essay explaining the proper procedure for using the toilet from a squatting position. And for that, she also gets 2 days of detention – that is, regular after school detention without having to clean bathrooms. “I guess that’s not so bad,” she tells me. “No it isn’t, I tell her, “Especially since you inconvenienced Mrs. Duncan with your careless urinating in the port-o-potty.
In addition to the famous Wet Set Thanksgiving Day parade, Thanksgiving weekend also marks the start of the Winter sports season. This past Friday morning was the start of basketball practice for our girls’ basketball team. And it is with utter amazement that I read a report from Mr. Norton, our Head Plumber, concerning the scene in the girls’ locker room after basketball practice Friday morning. It seems that of the 4 toilets in the girls’ locker room, 3 of them were clogged by girls’ on the basketball team. And we’re not talking about toilets clogged from girls flushing tampons or other things that are not supposed to be flushed. These girls clogged the toilet with the enormity of their bowel movements – 2 girls with their bowel movements alone and 1 girl with the help of a little toilet paper. But even in that latter case, I’m told that it was pretty much the bowel movement itself that clogged the toilet. “How’s it going, Ed,” I ask Mr. Norton. He’s left – Even three days later – just shaking his head. “I’ve never seen anything quite like it,” he mumbles, “I’ve never seen a collection of bowel movements quite like that – Not even in the boys’ room. All 3 girls are here – Actually, the entire girls’ basketball team is here – along with their coach Ms. Teiger.
“Well, what can I say,” Coach Teiger tells me, shrugging her shoulders, “It was just one of those days.” “I guess my girls did some pretty big eating on Thanksgiving,” the attractive blonde-haired basketball coach continues, “That combined with running sprints at basketball practice can really get a girl’s bowels moving.” “I hope you won’t be too hard on the girls,” Coach Teiger argues, “They really didn’t do anything wrong.” “The girls just sat down on the toilet and went,” she points out, “And that’s just what came out.” “It really wasn’t their fault,” the coach says, “And I’m certainly glad they did those in the toilet instead of their pants.” “I almost clogged the toilet myself that morning,” Coach Teiger continues, “It took 2 flushes to get mine down the toilet in the coach’s office.” “2 of the girls even came up to me immediately and explained what had happened,” she adds, “I hope their punishment won’t be too bad.” “I don’t think we have to be too severe with the girls,” I assure the coach, “As long as the girls didn’t clog the toilet on purpose, it isn’t a serious offense.” “I guess we have to get used to these big bowel movements right after Thanksgiving,” I add, “And, as you say, we certainly don’t want these girls going in their pants instead.”
I’m certainly not surprised to see that one of the toilet cloggers is Beverly, a tall and pretty senior brunette. Clogging the toilet seems to be a common thing for her with 2 toilet clogs last year and 2 the year before. It’s her first one this year, though. “I guess this is a regular thing for me on the first day of basketball practice,” she says, “It happened last year and my sophomore year, too.” “Although last year, I didn’t actually clog it,” she clarifies, “It’s just that the bowel movement I did was so big, it wouldn’t bulge when I tried to flush the toilet.” Officially, her charge last year was “Not Flushing the Toilet After a Bowel Movement.” “It’s certainly better than what you did your freshman year,” Coach Teiger reminds her, “I’m certainly happy I’ve never seen a repeat of that.” “I’m certainly glad I’ve never had a repeat of that, too,” Beverly tells her coach, “You really taught me a lesson that day.” “I certainly learned that the girls’ locker room toilets aren’t really that bad to use,” the friendly and popular basketball player tells us, “Using them is certainly better than having basketball practice with a load in my panties – especially the kind of load I usually do the day after a big Thanksgiving dinner.”
“And apparently you’ve learned a lesson about what to do after clogging the toilet, as well,” Coach Teiger commends her, “You came and told me what happened instead of just leaving it there in the toilet unflushed like you did last year.” Beverly thanks her coach for that compliment. “No use trying to hide it,” she says, “I clogged the toilet and then I had to accept responsibility for it.” The coach also compliments the girl – Soon to be a 3-year starter at Forward – For not adding toilet paper to the clog. She flushed the toilet first – As girls are encouraged to do when a bowel movement is particularly large – And then held off on wiping herself when she saw that the toilet was clogged. “I just waddled into another stall to wipe myself,” Beverly tells us, “I certainly didn’t want to make the clog worse.” I also commend her for that. What she did made the difference between a Category #1 clog (clogging the toilet with just a bowel movement) and a Category #2 clog (clogging with a bowel movement and toilet paper together). Though neither is a serious offense, a Category #1 clog is obviously of a lesser severity than a Category #2.
As Coach Teiger suggested before, the punishment in this case, need not be severe. A girl doesn’t really have much control over the size of her bowel movements and Beverly certainly did all that she could to minimize the damage afterwards. I give the tall and beautiful senior the choice of serving an hour of detention or writing 100 times, “I will not clog the toilet in the girls’ room in school again.” Satisfied with the leniency of her choices, she happily chooses the 100 times writing assignment as her punishment.
The next girl charged with clogging the toilet at Friday’s basketball practice is a cute and perky blonde named Leslie. She also plays on the soccer team and is perhaps best known to faithful readers of the TVPC for messing in her panties at a soccer game last year. Apparently, she’s learned her lesson from that experience because she hasn’t had an accident since. In fact, her only toilet violation since then was lying to a TVPC investigator – She lied to protect a friend and soccer teammate who had helped her when she had had that accident at the soccer game – During an important TVPC investigation in February of last year.
“I don’t know how that happened, sir” she tells us, referencing the clogged toilet, “It’s really not like me to have a bowel movement quite that big.” “I mean, I have clogged the toilet at home a few times, but this is the first time I’ve ever clogged the toilet at school,” Leslie points out, “And I have had some big bowel movements at school before, but somehow they all managed to go down the toilet when I flushed it.” “But this time, the bowel movement was just too big,” the athletic sophomore explains, “When I tried to flush it, it overwhelmed the drain and it totally got stuck there.” “I just couldn’t get it to go down,” she adds.
“Did you eat a lot the day before?” Coach Teiger asks her. “Yeah – I guess I did eat quite a bit on Thanksgiving,” Leslie says, “I guess that does explain where that thick log I did came from.” “I will tell you one thing, though,” she goes on, “I felt a heck of a lot better after I let that thing out of me.” I had been feeling all full and bloated the night before,” the sophomore cutie says, “And I still wasn’t feeling all that well during the first part of practice Friday morning.” “But as we took that first break at practice and I let that thing out of me, I was good,” Leslie explains, “I felt like I was 10 pounds lighter and could run forever.” “Exercise can do that for you sometimes,” Coach Teiger tells the aspiring starting Guard, “A lot of times it stimulates your system to clean itself out.”
With encouragement from her coach, Leslie further explains the incident in question. “After I did it, I knew it was going to be a problem to flush,” Leslie tells us, “So I tried to flush the toilet right away before I did anything else.” “Of course, then once I had clogged the toilet, I still had to wipe myself,” she explains, “But I didn’t want to make the clogged toilet worse by throwing my toilet paper in there, too.” “So when I finally did wipe myself, I just held on to my toilet paper,” she explains further, “I saved it all until I was done wiping and then I took it to that stall that doesn’t have a door on it and I flushed the paper down the toilet there.” “I know that sounds gross but what else could I do,” Leslie adds, “As I said before, I didn’t want to make the clog worse.” “And then you came out and told me what had happened – Isn’t that right?” Coach Teiger asks her. “Well, I washed my hands first and then I told you,” she tells the coach, “After holding all that dirty toilet paper like I did, I about scrubbed my hands raw.” “It was kind of embarrassing to have to tell you that one of my bowel movements had clogged the toilet,” Leslie tells her coach, “But I know that’s what we’re supposed to do when something like that happens.”
“You absolutely did the right thing,” Coach Teiger tells her. “Yes you did,” I add in concurrence, “And your proper behavior after clogging the toilet will, of course, be reflected in your punishment.” I note that, just like in Beverly’s case, this is a Category #1 clogging – the least serious of the various ways you can clog a toilet at our school. For punishment, Leslie will also get to choose between writing “I will not clog the toilet in the girls’ room in school again” 100 times or serving a day’s detention. And like Beverly, Leslie chooses the 100 times writing assignment as her punishment.
The final toilet clogger to face the TVPC this afternoon is Staci, a soft-spoken blonde-haired honor student. This tall senior is hoping to move into the starting Center position this winter. That’s hardly something that would have seemed possible 2 years ago. “I have high hopes for Staci this season,” Coach Teiger is eager to tell anyone who’s willing to listen, “She’s really come a long way in just about every way possible.” “Obviously, you’ve really matured physically,” the coach says, looking at the tall, well-built senior, “And you’ve really come out of your shell as far as your shyness is concerned.” “And you’ve obviously learned to deal with your other issues as well,” Coach Teiger reminds the blossoming senior beauty. “I used to have a lot of accidents my freshman and sophomore years,” Staci isn’t shy to remind us, “And I used to sneak off campus to use my own bathroom at home sometimes, too.” “But I don’t that anymore,” she proudly states, “I use the girls’ rooms now when I need to.” “Yeah, I really used to have some issues with having bowel movements in the school bathrooms,” she admits, “Cleaning up my messes and getting punished for them was like a way of life for me.” “But then you got me interested in playing basketball,” she tells Coach Teiger, “And you told me that I couldn’t play on the basketball team unless I learned to have my bowel movements in school.” “You explained to me that with practices and everything else, I couldn’t just keep trying to hold it in in school like I was doing,” Staci says to her coach, “You explained to me that I’d simply have to do my bowel movements in school when I needed to, if I wanted to be on the team.” “You helped me get over my fear of doing that in school,” she tells her, “Now, I even use doorless stalls at games sometimes and it’s no big deal for me.” “Well Staci, YOU did that,” Coach Teiger tells her, “You’re the one who started doing your bowel movements in school when you needed to and you learned that the more times you do it, the easier it gets.”
It’s all a nice story, but I ask the 2 of them to get on with the facts of this particular case. “Now, I don’t even worry about messing in my pants anymore,” Staci says, “Now, I have to worry about clogging the toilet instead.” She’s clogged the toilet several times since she started having her bowel movements in school, including twice already this year. Once it happened in the Main Corridor girls’ room after English class and just 2 weeks ago it happened after gym class in the girls’ locker room in the exact same toilet that she clogged this time. “I’d certainly rather be doing that than messing in my pants like I used to,” she points out, “But I can’t say it isn’t annoying when I go and the toilet gets clogged.”
In spite of her recent proclivity to clog our toilets, she still seems surprised that this happened on Friday morning. Of course, I ask her about this. “A girl with active, healthy bowels combined with a big Thanksgiving dinner and then basketball practice seems like a lethal combination,” I point out, “I’m not surprised at all that you managed to clog the toilet.” “But that’s just it, sir,” she tells me, “I kind of figured that Thanksgiving dinner was going to do it for me – It always does.” “But that wasn’t my first one after Thanksgiving dinner,” she explains, “I had already clogged the toilet at home with a bowel movement Thursday night.” “I thought that I was home free after that,” she explains further, “I can’t believe that I clogged the toilet again with another bowel movement like 12 hours later.” “It’s like my bowels were working overtime or something,” Staci continues, shaking her head, “I even clogged the toilet again at the movies Friday night and again at my aunt’s house on Saturday night.” “And then on Sunday night, I clogged my own toilet at home again,” she goes on, “It wasn’t until like an hour and a half ago in the Science Wing girls’ room that I finally did a bowel movement that I could flush down the toilet normally.” We’re all just left staring at each other dumbfounded – Never having heard such a tale of bowels moving prowess before.
Getting back to the issue at hand – that is, her clogging of the toilet in the girls’ locker room on Friday – I note that this one is a #2 clogging. That is, unlike our previous 2 today – hers included toilet paper as well as the bowel movement itself. “The toilet paper really had nothing to do with it,” Staci argues, “It was my bowel movement that clogged the toilet – Not the toilet paper.” “Your toilet paper was in the bowl with your bowel movement, young lady,” Coach Teiger reminds the senior and assures us. “Yes, I know it was,” Staci acknowledges, “But as I said before, it really didn’t matter.” “It was only 2 wads of paper – It really didn’t take much to wipe myself,” she points out, “It had nothing to do with why the toilet got clogged.” “It doesn’t matter,” I explain to Staci. “Under TVPC rules, as long as the toilet paper was in the bowl, it’s considered to be part of the clogged toilet,” I explain further, “That automatically makes it a Category #2 clogging.” The senior honor student argues that it’s not right because the toilet paper had absolutely nothing to do with how the toilet got clogged, but it’s to no avail.
“Rules are rules,” I tell her, thereby ending the discussion. When I ask her why she put toilet paper into a toilet that she suspected was going to clog, she really has no answer. “I had a bowel movement and then I wiped myself,” she says, “And then I threw my toilet paper in the toilet where it belongs.” “Well, as I said, a Category #2 clogging isn’t a serious offense,” I explain to Staci, “But it is more serious than a Category #1.” “You would have saved yourself at least a little punishment had you put your toilet paper in a different toilet instead,” I point out. “And I also have to consider that it’s your 3rd offense,” I explain further, “And you have a charge of improperly squatting to urinate with the toilet seat down, on your school toilet record as well.” Accordingly, I sentence Staci to 2 days detention and having to write, “I will not clog the toilet in the girls’ room in school again” 250 times. She’s a bit surprised at the severity of her punishment, but she surely knows that it’s best not to argue.
My name is Arnold Ziffel and I’m chairman of the TVPC. What follows are the summary minutes of the TVPC meeting of November 26, 2012.
We begin this afternoon’s session of the Toilet Violations Punishment Committee (TVPC) with a case stemming from the past Thursday. For the 2nd year in a row, our school band had the distinct honor of marching in the world famous Wet Set Thanksgiving Day parade. And I’m pleased to note that, unlike last year, none of the girls in the band had any accidents while marching in the parade. Last year a pretty blonde-haired sophomore named Alissa wet her pants while marching in the parade.
But even though there weren’t any accident offenses of either variety, it doesn’t mean that there aren’t any toilet offenses at all. Unfortunately, Ruthie, a pretty sophomore flute player in the band is accused of 2 toilet violations at the parade. Her first charge is not lifting up the toilet seat prior to squatting over the toilet to urinate and the second charge is actually urinating all over the toilet seat while doing so. Both of these offenses occurred in a port-o-potty that Ruthie was using prior to the start of the parade. Mrs. Duncan, the Assistant Band Director, has filed both Violation Reports in this case. “I had the misfortunate of using that same port-o-potty right after Ruthie did,” Mrs. Duncan reports, “Believe me, it wasn’t a pretty sight.” “There was urine literally dripping off the toilet seat and onto the floor in front of the toilet,” our Assistant Band Director explains, “And there was plenty of it on the side of the toilet, too.” “I have to wonder if Ruthie managed to get any of it actually in the toilet,” she says.
That vivid description raises the issue of whether the tall blonde did it on purpose. Doing it on purpose is, of course, more serious than if she simply had bad aim when she squatted. “Well, she told me it was by accident and I guess I believe her,” Mrs. Duncan says, “But it’s hard to believe a girl could spray it that bad all over the toilet without trying to do it.” Ruthie reacts – dare I say over-reacts – to hearing that. “Oh No! Please!” she practically shrieks in a panic, “I swear I didn’t do it on purpose – It just an accident, I swear.” “How can you think I would do that on purpose,” she pleads, “I would never do anything like that on purpose.” “I’m just not used to squatting over the toilet – That’s all,” she explains. “I tried to get it all in the toilet, I really was trying,” she says, “But my aim was just really bad.”
Both Mrs. Duncan and I motion for tall sophomore flutist to calm down. “We know you didn’t do it on purpose,” I tell her, “We know your toilet record and we know how hard it is for girls to use port-o-pottys sometime.” “It’s just that your aim so bad it SEEMED like you did it on purpose,” Mrs. Duncan explains, “But like Mr. Ziffel said, we believe it was only because you weren’t used to squatting in a port-o-potty.” “Thank you,” Ruthie tells us both, with a noticeable look of relief on her face. “But that’s not to say that you’re going to be let off easy for this,” I quickly point out, “Even accidentally urinating on the toilet seat – Especially as bad as you did it – Isn’t entirely a minor offense.” “And obviously the toilet seat shouldn’t have even been down in the first place,” I point out, “You know very well that if you’re squatting over the toilet, you have to lift the toilet seat up before you do it.” In fact, Ruthie was punished last year for forgetting to lift up the toilet seat while squatting – that time, squatting over the toilet to have a bowel movement. “Yes sir,” she acknowledges, “I just didn’t think about doing that in the port-o-potty.” “Well, your carelessness on both counts is going to cost you,” I explain, “And both of these are, of course, toilet violations while representing the school.” She nods her head in acknowledge of that, but understandably doesn’t look happy. “I get punished for both things?” she asks, “I get punished for urinating on the seat and for leaving the toilet seat down?” “Yes you do,” I tell her, “They are 2 separate violations and you get 2 separate punishments.”
Punishing her first for the more serious offense of urinating on the toilet seat (and doing so while representing the school), she’ll have to write “I will not urinate on the toilet seat in school or at band events again” 300 times. She’ll also have to serve 3 days of bathroom cleaning detention. For failing to lift up the toilet seat, she’ll have to write a 1,000 word essay explaining the proper procedure for using the toilet from a squatting position. And for that, she also gets 2 days of detention – that is, regular after school detention without having to clean bathrooms. “I guess that’s not so bad,” she tells me. “No it isn’t, I tell her, “Especially since you inconvenienced Mrs. Duncan with your careless urinating in the port-o-potty.
In addition to the famous Wet Set Thanksgiving Day parade, Thanksgiving weekend also marks the start of the Winter sports season. This past Friday morning was the start of basketball practice for our girls’ basketball team. And it is with utter amazement that I read a report from Mr. Norton, our Head Plumber, concerning the scene in the girls’ locker room after basketball practice Friday morning. It seems that of the 4 toilets in the girls’ locker room, 3 of them were clogged by girls’ on the basketball team. And we’re not talking about toilets clogged from girls flushing tampons or other things that are not supposed to be flushed. These girls clogged the toilet with the enormity of their bowel movements – 2 girls with their bowel movements alone and 1 girl with the help of a little toilet paper. But even in that latter case, I’m told that it was pretty much the bowel movement itself that clogged the toilet. “How’s it going, Ed,” I ask Mr. Norton. He’s left – Even three days later – just shaking his head. “I’ve never seen anything quite like it,” he mumbles, “I’ve never seen a collection of bowel movements quite like that – Not even in the boys’ room. All 3 girls are here – Actually, the entire girls’ basketball team is here – along with their coach Ms. Teiger.
“Well, what can I say,” Coach Teiger tells me, shrugging her shoulders, “It was just one of those days.” “I guess my girls did some pretty big eating on Thanksgiving,” the attractive blonde-haired basketball coach continues, “That combined with running sprints at basketball practice can really get a girl’s bowels moving.” “I hope you won’t be too hard on the girls,” Coach Teiger argues, “They really didn’t do anything wrong.” “The girls just sat down on the toilet and went,” she points out, “And that’s just what came out.” “It really wasn’t their fault,” the coach says, “And I’m certainly glad they did those in the toilet instead of their pants.” “I almost clogged the toilet myself that morning,” Coach Teiger continues, “It took 2 flushes to get mine down the toilet in the coach’s office.” “2 of the girls even came up to me immediately and explained what had happened,” she adds, “I hope their punishment won’t be too bad.” “I don’t think we have to be too severe with the girls,” I assure the coach, “As long as the girls didn’t clog the toilet on purpose, it isn’t a serious offense.” “I guess we have to get used to these big bowel movements right after Thanksgiving,” I add, “And, as you say, we certainly don’t want these girls going in their pants instead.”
I’m certainly not surprised to see that one of the toilet cloggers is Beverly, a tall and pretty senior brunette. Clogging the toilet seems to be a common thing for her with 2 toilet clogs last year and 2 the year before. It’s her first one this year, though. “I guess this is a regular thing for me on the first day of basketball practice,” she says, “It happened last year and my sophomore year, too.” “Although last year, I didn’t actually clog it,” she clarifies, “It’s just that the bowel movement I did was so big, it wouldn’t bulge when I tried to flush the toilet.” Officially, her charge last year was “Not Flushing the Toilet After a Bowel Movement.” “It’s certainly better than what you did your freshman year,” Coach Teiger reminds her, “I’m certainly happy I’ve never seen a repeat of that.” “I’m certainly glad I’ve never had a repeat of that, too,” Beverly tells her coach, “You really taught me a lesson that day.” “I certainly learned that the girls’ locker room toilets aren’t really that bad to use,” the friendly and popular basketball player tells us, “Using them is certainly better than having basketball practice with a load in my panties – especially the kind of load I usually do the day after a big Thanksgiving dinner.”
“And apparently you’ve learned a lesson about what to do after clogging the toilet, as well,” Coach Teiger commends her, “You came and told me what happened instead of just leaving it there in the toilet unflushed like you did last year.” Beverly thanks her coach for that compliment. “No use trying to hide it,” she says, “I clogged the toilet and then I had to accept responsibility for it.” The coach also compliments the girl – Soon to be a 3-year starter at Forward – For not adding toilet paper to the clog. She flushed the toilet first – As girls are encouraged to do when a bowel movement is particularly large – And then held off on wiping herself when she saw that the toilet was clogged. “I just waddled into another stall to wipe myself,” Beverly tells us, “I certainly didn’t want to make the clog worse.” I also commend her for that. What she did made the difference between a Category #1 clog (clogging the toilet with just a bowel movement) and a Category #2 clog (clogging with a bowel movement and toilet paper together). Though neither is a serious offense, a Category #1 clog is obviously of a lesser severity than a Category #2.
As Coach Teiger suggested before, the punishment in this case, need not be severe. A girl doesn’t really have much control over the size of her bowel movements and Beverly certainly did all that she could to minimize the damage afterwards. I give the tall and beautiful senior the choice of serving an hour of detention or writing 100 times, “I will not clog the toilet in the girls’ room in school again.” Satisfied with the leniency of her choices, she happily chooses the 100 times writing assignment as her punishment.
The next girl charged with clogging the toilet at Friday’s basketball practice is a cute and perky blonde named Leslie. She also plays on the soccer team and is perhaps best known to faithful readers of the TVPC for messing in her panties at a soccer game last year. Apparently, she’s learned her lesson from that experience because she hasn’t had an accident since. In fact, her only toilet violation since then was lying to a TVPC investigator – She lied to protect a friend and soccer teammate who had helped her when she had had that accident at the soccer game – During an important TVPC investigation in February of last year.
“I don’t know how that happened, sir” she tells us, referencing the clogged toilet, “It’s really not like me to have a bowel movement quite that big.” “I mean, I have clogged the toilet at home a few times, but this is the first time I’ve ever clogged the toilet at school,” Leslie points out, “And I have had some big bowel movements at school before, but somehow they all managed to go down the toilet when I flushed it.” “But this time, the bowel movement was just too big,” the athletic sophomore explains, “When I tried to flush it, it overwhelmed the drain and it totally got stuck there.” “I just couldn’t get it to go down,” she adds.
“Did you eat a lot the day before?” Coach Teiger asks her. “Yeah – I guess I did eat quite a bit on Thanksgiving,” Leslie says, “I guess that does explain where that thick log I did came from.” “I will tell you one thing, though,” she goes on, “I felt a heck of a lot better after I let that thing out of me.” I had been feeling all full and bloated the night before,” the sophomore cutie says, “And I still wasn’t feeling all that well during the first part of practice Friday morning.” “But as we took that first break at practice and I let that thing out of me, I was good,” Leslie explains, “I felt like I was 10 pounds lighter and could run forever.” “Exercise can do that for you sometimes,” Coach Teiger tells the aspiring starting Guard, “A lot of times it stimulates your system to clean itself out.”
With encouragement from her coach, Leslie further explains the incident in question. “After I did it, I knew it was going to be a problem to flush,” Leslie tells us, “So I tried to flush the toilet right away before I did anything else.” “Of course, then once I had clogged the toilet, I still had to wipe myself,” she explains, “But I didn’t want to make the clogged toilet worse by throwing my toilet paper in there, too.” “So when I finally did wipe myself, I just held on to my toilet paper,” she explains further, “I saved it all until I was done wiping and then I took it to that stall that doesn’t have a door on it and I flushed the paper down the toilet there.” “I know that sounds gross but what else could I do,” Leslie adds, “As I said before, I didn’t want to make the clog worse.” “And then you came out and told me what had happened – Isn’t that right?” Coach Teiger asks her. “Well, I washed my hands first and then I told you,” she tells the coach, “After holding all that dirty toilet paper like I did, I about scrubbed my hands raw.” “It was kind of embarrassing to have to tell you that one of my bowel movements had clogged the toilet,” Leslie tells her coach, “But I know that’s what we’re supposed to do when something like that happens.”
“You absolutely did the right thing,” Coach Teiger tells her. “Yes you did,” I add in concurrence, “And your proper behavior after clogging the toilet will, of course, be reflected in your punishment.” I note that, just like in Beverly’s case, this is a Category #1 clogging – the least serious of the various ways you can clog a toilet at our school. For punishment, Leslie will also get to choose between writing “I will not clog the toilet in the girls’ room in school again” 100 times or serving a day’s detention. And like Beverly, Leslie chooses the 100 times writing assignment as her punishment.
The final toilet clogger to face the TVPC this afternoon is Staci, a soft-spoken blonde-haired honor student. This tall senior is hoping to move into the starting Center position this winter. That’s hardly something that would have seemed possible 2 years ago. “I have high hopes for Staci this season,” Coach Teiger is eager to tell anyone who’s willing to listen, “She’s really come a long way in just about every way possible.” “Obviously, you’ve really matured physically,” the coach says, looking at the tall, well-built senior, “And you’ve really come out of your shell as far as your shyness is concerned.” “And you’ve obviously learned to deal with your other issues as well,” Coach Teiger reminds the blossoming senior beauty. “I used to have a lot of accidents my freshman and sophomore years,” Staci isn’t shy to remind us, “And I used to sneak off campus to use my own bathroom at home sometimes, too.” “But I don’t that anymore,” she proudly states, “I use the girls’ rooms now when I need to.” “Yeah, I really used to have some issues with having bowel movements in the school bathrooms,” she admits, “Cleaning up my messes and getting punished for them was like a way of life for me.” “But then you got me interested in playing basketball,” she tells Coach Teiger, “And you told me that I couldn’t play on the basketball team unless I learned to have my bowel movements in school.” “You explained to me that with practices and everything else, I couldn’t just keep trying to hold it in in school like I was doing,” Staci says to her coach, “You explained to me that I’d simply have to do my bowel movements in school when I needed to, if I wanted to be on the team.” “You helped me get over my fear of doing that in school,” she tells her, “Now, I even use doorless stalls at games sometimes and it’s no big deal for me.” “Well Staci, YOU did that,” Coach Teiger tells her, “You’re the one who started doing your bowel movements in school when you needed to and you learned that the more times you do it, the easier it gets.”
It’s all a nice story, but I ask the 2 of them to get on with the facts of this particular case. “Now, I don’t even worry about messing in my pants anymore,” Staci says, “Now, I have to worry about clogging the toilet instead.” She’s clogged the toilet several times since she started having her bowel movements in school, including twice already this year. Once it happened in the Main Corridor girls’ room after English class and just 2 weeks ago it happened after gym class in the girls’ locker room in the exact same toilet that she clogged this time. “I’d certainly rather be doing that than messing in my pants like I used to,” she points out, “But I can’t say it isn’t annoying when I go and the toilet gets clogged.”
In spite of her recent proclivity to clog our toilets, she still seems surprised that this happened on Friday morning. Of course, I ask her about this. “A girl with active, healthy bowels combined with a big Thanksgiving dinner and then basketball practice seems like a lethal combination,” I point out, “I’m not surprised at all that you managed to clog the toilet.” “But that’s just it, sir,” she tells me, “I kind of figured that Thanksgiving dinner was going to do it for me – It always does.” “But that wasn’t my first one after Thanksgiving dinner,” she explains, “I had already clogged the toilet at home with a bowel movement Thursday night.” “I thought that I was home free after that,” she explains further, “I can’t believe that I clogged the toilet again with another bowel movement like 12 hours later.” “It’s like my bowels were working overtime or something,” Staci continues, shaking her head, “I even clogged the toilet again at the movies Friday night and again at my aunt’s house on Saturday night.” “And then on Sunday night, I clogged my own toilet at home again,” she goes on, “It wasn’t until like an hour and a half ago in the Science Wing girls’ room that I finally did a bowel movement that I could flush down the toilet normally.” We’re all just left staring at each other dumbfounded – Never having heard such a tale of bowels moving prowess before.
Getting back to the issue at hand – that is, her clogging of the toilet in the girls’ locker room on Friday – I note that this one is a #2 clogging. That is, unlike our previous 2 today – hers included toilet paper as well as the bowel movement itself. “The toilet paper really had nothing to do with it,” Staci argues, “It was my bowel movement that clogged the toilet – Not the toilet paper.” “Your toilet paper was in the bowl with your bowel movement, young lady,” Coach Teiger reminds the senior and assures us. “Yes, I know it was,” Staci acknowledges, “But as I said before, it really didn’t matter.” “It was only 2 wads of paper – It really didn’t take much to wipe myself,” she points out, “It had nothing to do with why the toilet got clogged.” “It doesn’t matter,” I explain to Staci. “Under TVPC rules, as long as the toilet paper was in the bowl, it’s considered to be part of the clogged toilet,” I explain further, “That automatically makes it a Category #2 clogging.” The senior honor student argues that it’s not right because the toilet paper had absolutely nothing to do with how the toilet got clogged, but it’s to no avail.
“Rules are rules,” I tell her, thereby ending the discussion. When I ask her why she put toilet paper into a toilet that she suspected was going to clog, she really has no answer. “I had a bowel movement and then I wiped myself,” she says, “And then I threw my toilet paper in the toilet where it belongs.” “Well, as I said, a Category #2 clogging isn’t a serious offense,” I explain to Staci, “But it is more serious than a Category #1.” “You would have saved yourself at least a little punishment had you put your toilet paper in a different toilet instead,” I point out. “And I also have to consider that it’s your 3rd offense,” I explain further, “And you have a charge of improperly squatting to urinate with the toilet seat down, on your school toilet record as well.” Accordingly, I sentence Staci to 2 days detention and having to write, “I will not clog the toilet in the girls’ room in school again” 250 times. She’s a bit surprised at the severity of her punishment, but she surely knows that it’s best not to argue.
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