One day I ran a serious risk of making a mess on the floor.
In the summer of 2002 I had not enough money to afford a full-fledged holiday so I resorted to take short vacations on weekends instead. It was one Friday afternoon in August and I had already planned the whole travel to the merry seaside town I chose along with a couple of friends: Milan to Genoa by train (about three hours including going to the station, meeting friends and buying tickets) and the 13-hour stage to Sardinia by ferry, so I decided to take an enema for plain comfort and a 'fresh start' even if I knew all too well what trick such a long trip would play on my otherwise Swiss clock regular system and how to fix it - I already wrote about this in another thread some time ago.
Only the day before I had posted a message on a municipal site that hosted the city want ad board because I was hoping to raise a little money by selling a Beaulieu 8mm movie camera I was given as a gift by a family friend who kept it in a closet since he changed over his amateur movie rig to VHS video many years earlier.
I had just finished the whole 2-liter reservoir and was still breathing hard on all fours when my cell phone rang. I had already set the appointment with one of my traveling companions yet forgot to turn off the phone!
I uttered some blasphemy, frantically turned off the valve (I didn't have my trusted ratchet clamp then), slipped out the rectal tube, got on my feet and made a hurried waddle out of bathroom to the corridor where the little bitchy hunk of technology was ringing and flashing inside its leatherette pouch which in turn was neatly stored inside my zippered marsupium. Gritting my teeth, fumbling inside the waistband holder, I fished out the phone and answered at the eighth or ninth ring while holding firmly against the load. It was a visitor of that site's buy & sell board. He presented himself and we had more than an idle chit-chat before he would finally ask further information about the old movie camera I had for sale.
I don't remember how I made it. Talking like a machine gun I gave it a brief description of the camera's main features, answered to his pounding questions with just a trace of haste, and agreed upon the final price. Then I gave him an appointment at my workshop for the following week, said goodbye and ran for relief. Later on I had the afterthought of having been a bit slack by conceding him too much from the economical perspective. Fortunately I had the camera as a gift in turn and never thought about putting it to good use since music is my cup of tea, so at least I didn't kill myself with remorse.
Try and imagine what happens inside you (pun intended) in such a circumstance... I might have declined the conversation and delayed the deal by feigning an urgency of some sort, but there are moments when you have to show off the best of you for the sake of not letting out the worst. 😁