So yesterday I was driving from school to work, and as I turned onto a street a car in front of me was kind of pulled over to the side and the person on the passenger side dropped some kind of paper bag out the window. My first thought was, "Ugh, how could someone just dump their garbage on the street like that?" Reminding me of that old commercial with the crying Native American who was played by a man who wasn't even Native American.
But I digress. As I drove by the bag, I glanced at it and saw that the bottom of it had burst, I guess from hitting the ground, and some brown stuff was coming out of it. My thought then: V*. The person in the passenger side seat v* in the bag and dropped it on the street.
My thoughts started racing then. What's going to happen to that bag? What if someone runs over it? That is so disgusting. What if the car (which was in front of me) pulls over so the person can open the door and v*, what if I see it? What's going to happen to that bag ... (I couldn't get my mind off of that bag).
After some hardcore worrying I stopped myself and was like, stop it. If it's v* in the bag it's no big deal. It's just v*. It's not the end of the world. It won't hurt you. It's a normal function. And the person in that car who's sick, it's so unfortunate they're feeling ill. But it's not the end of the world. They'll get better. They're just sick for now, for whatever reason, and soon they'll feel better.
And I kept working on that until I got it off my mind. I drove behind this car for a while, until we reached a road that turns into two lanes, me going into the left one because I needed to turn left. In my rear view mirror I noted that the other car, in the right lane now, had stopped and the passenger door was open. I quickly looked away scared that the person was v*ing, but I didn't let myself get panicky again.
And now if I think about this incident I don't get scared. Just remember it, and that's it. I just thought I'd share this because the v* bag thing is just plain gross, phobia or not.



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