Many years ago I worked in a health food store. I had a guy in my department that came in before I did, and there were probably 20 - 30 employees or so around the store since open before I got there. I came in at 11am, headed to the warehouse and encountered the worst stench I’ve ever smelled coming from the public bathrooms next to the warehouse doors. I asked my minion why it smelled so bad and he said that around 9am right after opening, he saw a guy come out of the bathroom with his pants down, his jacket wrapped around his waist. The guy looked extremely pale and gaunt, and had IVs still hanging out of him or something. He rushed up to his wife and told her “We have to get the hell out of here!”, which my coworker heard.
So for 2 hours, the store reeked terribly and all the people that worked the floor and warehouse did nothing except complain.
I take it upon myself to investigate, pretty sure what to expect. However, I was completely wrong.
As soon as I push open the door, I’m greeted with a more intense odor than before that almost makes me retch. I also see a puddle of poop, about 1 foot in diameter and with the color and consistency of split pea soup, 5 feet away from the door and around 20 feet away from the toilet. I look around the side of the half wall that was in place so people couldn’t peek in and watch you use the bathroom, and see at least half a dozen more of these puddles, making their way to the toilet like stepping stones.
I push open the stall door, and the toilet front, back, and top, as well as the wall and floor behind it, is literally covered in liquid shit. The guy’s ass exploded, and I’m not kidding about that. It was a shotgun blast of poop, as far as how the spread looked.
The kicker is this, though: there was no poop actually in the toilet bowl. Everywhere else, but not there. What WAS in the toilet was his soiled underwear that he had abandoned.
I got my minion and another coworker to help me clean it up, then convinced the GM to let us go home to wash and change, on the clock. When we got back, we were handed $15 gift certificates.
After that, I’ve never flinched at anything regarding that stuff. I’ve changed diapers like a champ. I stomached through 2girls1cup (which may actually be the most disgusting thing I’ve seen).