Mission Impossible?

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to get to the bathroom undetected 5 times in a row. You must complete this mission in under 1 hour or you will die……………..of embarassment!

Those of us with IBS know what it’s like to be obsessed with knowing where the bathrooms are, which is understandable since we might never know when we need one until its close to too late.  In addition to that, it’s not just knowing where they are but how to get there (several times) without being noticed.  If you work in an office/cube farm like me, people notice when you do anything (talk on the phone, fart, sneeze, chitchat with co-workers) and that includes getting up to use the restrooms.

Part of the reason I have stayed in my industry is because it gives me the benefit of getting up from my desk anytime I want. (except for when I’m in a dreaded MEETING, ew) Over the past several years, I’ve become very creative at using the bathroom undetected.  Let me show you in the picture below:

 This is my current work space.  The orange path represents one way to get to the restrooms and the purple path shows the other.  What’s nice is that I work in a cube in an office, so it’s private, and once I leave, it’s the “other dude’s” guess where I am at.  Sometimes  I take the orange path and keep going all the way around, so I looks like I was maybe in the lunchroom or chatting with co-workers. 

 At my latest job I was lucky enough to work on the 2nd floor, which meant I could use the 1st floor restrooms, which were much bigger and private.  I’m also sure I wasn’t the only one doing that.

So, you see, it’s NOT mission impossible, but it IS mission improv.  Just sharing another one of the abnormalities that keep living with IBS interesting.

-Nicole

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