Talkin' Shit

Today talkin' shit is not figurative it is a literal discussion. Today is November 19, 2015 and unknown and unappreciated by almost all Americans it is World Toilet Day. The World Toilet Organization held the first of these days on November 19, 2001. It is an attempt to draw attention to the fact that 2.4 billion of our fellow citizens of this world lack access to adequate sanitation. Somehow writing it as 2.4 billion makes it look less impressive than writing it like this. 2,400,000,000! One of the things we don't think about is the fact that everyone poops. So every day those 2,400,000,000 people are living in conditions that none of us should find acceptable. The goal of the World Toilet Organization is to have everyone provided with adequate sanitary facilities by 2030. Pardon the following. They have a shitload of work ahead of them. 

So today when you head into that little room to do your business think about how different your life would be without those sanitary facilities. The worst bathroom in the dirtiest truck stop in America is better than the sanitation available to over 2 billion people. When you get upset about traffic, or waiting in line, or the price of gas and groceries just remember things could be worse. One could even suggest they could be really shitty.