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Toilet humour

I don’t know why, but like most blokes I find toilet humour rather amusing. No matter what my mood loos, poos and number twos will always bring a little smile to my face.

Now the point of that confession is to help you get just how funny I found the two toilet related stories that I witnessed last week. So here goes.

Story number one went like this. My little niece is four years old. She’s very cute, very energetic and very vocal. We were about to embark on a coastal walk, when sensibly her mum asked her if she’d like to go to the loo. She replied (equally sensibly) that she didn’t. So, cut to 20 minutes later as we’re all traipsing up some massive hill to get a view of the sea, when we suddenly hear a little four year old voice shout… ‘Mummy, I need to do a poo poo’.

Upon questioning it was discovered the said poo couldn’t wait. So she went there on the hill (with help from her very gracious mum), with the whole of West Dorset watching on. Later we asked her why she didn’t do a poo earlier and her response was very rational, just as you’d expect from a four year old… she didn’t need to go twenty minutes before.

Story number two went like this: I have a little nephew. He’s coming up to his third birthday. He’s a nice chap and loves hide and seek. Whilst playing hide and seek he’d managed to find a pretty awesome hiding place… a little dark cupboard under the stairs just made for a nearly three year old to squeeze into. As it was such a good hiding place we couldn’t find him and eventually his excitement got the best of him, jumping out on us as we walked past his spot for the tenth time! However, a few minutes later, his dad noticed he’d wet himself a little bit after doing a little wee in his hiding place! Nothing to be proud of, but nothing to be too ashamed of either (I mean he’s only two and three quarters).

Again a delicate questioning of the incident ensued and the following transpired. He was either quite scared to have shut himself under the stairs and let out a little wee, or (and I prefer this option) he was so excited by the game that his bodily functions deserted him for a few seconds.

So, there you go, toilet humour. But, what’s the point of these stories. Well, the simple answer is they made me laugh. But, as you know, this magazine is all about helping you connect with Jesus, so there must be some tenuous link to a spiritual truth somewhere in those stories that we can tease out for you. In fact we found a few, so we thought we’d give you the choice and interpret the stories how you’d like! Just click on one (or all) of the following options to get some extra God centred advice. Alternatively, if you’d prefer, just skip the links and enjoy the toilet humour with no strings attached!

1. Do what you say, it’s the best way!

2. Don't be ashamed, God cleans up our mess

Well, that’s enough talk of loos and poos. Have a look through this month’s mag for a much better selection of writings on following Jesus, including seasonal stuff from Liza on remembering, a bit on finding Mr Right by our student mate Natalie, more bits ofchurch history you may have missed from the legendary Craig Borlase and a revealing look at holiness with lovely lady Jo!

Have fun

Dan
editor@soulsurvivor.com