Stories and experiences from the missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. If you have one you would like to include please contact me. ghadley90@gmail.com. :)
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Mystery Bottle
When I was about halfway through my mission I was in an area with a new companion. Me and my new companion got along great the only problem that I had was he could take forever in the shower every morning. Well one morning I was getting my day started and waiting for him to finish so I could go and use the shower. He had just gotten in and all of a sudden I had to pee really bad, and it only got worse! I thought I could hold it but it kept building and building and I thought I was going to explode. I knew that he would be in there for awhile and there was no way I was going to be able to hold it. I panicked as I thought of what I could do. I then remembered that in our fridge I had a big plastic bottle of juice that was almost gone....I debated on what to do and finally swallowed my pride and did something I'm not exactly proud of but in that situation had to be done. I grabbed the bottle and carefully held it over the garbage can as I relived myself. I held the bottle which was fairly large and was surprised at how fast it was filling up and warming my hand as I held it tightly and carefully. I finally finished just as it topped of near the cap. I screwed the cap on as hard as I could and was satisfied that I no longer had to pee so bad and took care of the situation. I then realized though I had this giant bottle of my "stuff" and didn't know what exactly to do with it. I didn't want it to sit in our garbage can because I was afraid it might break open somehow or stink up the house. Our apartment was at the very top of the 3 story building with no neighbors. There was a mini dumpster down below our window which was about 4 by 3 feet wide. With our room being so high we had gotten pretty good of throwing bags of trash out the window and landing them in this dumpster instead of walking all the way downstairs. We especially did this at night when the streets were dangerous and didn't know if it was worth getting mugged just to throw out some of our old trash. I figured I could do the same thing with the bottle. I ran to the window and starred down at the small dumpster determining how hard and what angle I should throw the bottle. I wound my arm back and let it fly like a quarterback! It flew threw the air as it fell for the longest time. It finally made its way to the dumpster hit the side of it and landed in the gutter next to the road. I had missed! I realized it was out of the house though and I no longer had the urgency of finding a place to pee. Just as I was about to walk away from the window I noticed a Bum walking down the street that passed by our house everyday and his path was taking him right to my bottle of ''Juice"!.....I bent down with only my eyes peeking over the window ledge to see what would happen. This man carried around a giant bag and picked up anything edible or recycle for money. I watched as he got closer and closer to the bottle. Finally he approached it and stopped.....bent down, and picked it up. He held it up to the sun and inspected it. He then unscrewed the cap and put his nose over if and took a big breath. He instantly jerked his head back and looked at the contents again. After thinking for a moment he then slowly put his nose back over it and took a deep long breath......and then a tiny sip! I seemed fine with its contents and put the cap back on and carried on. I knew the homeless man from passing him in the streets before and wanted to yell out to him not to drink it. I couldn't though because this man did not like the missionaries and every chance he got in streets he would hassle us an let it be known it didn't want to be our friend. I didn't want him knowing where we lived so he could come for us. That's why I watched without warning him. Anyways, all this happened while my companion was in the shower. He eventually got out and had no clue what had just happened. It was 15 minutes of panic, quick and gross thinking, tense moments, disgust and finally relief. Definitely not a spiritual experience from my mission but none the less an experience that stands out and is worth a story.
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