An actual news report today:
A 35-year-old woman who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for so long that her body was stuck to the seat by the time he called police had a phobia about leaving the bathroom, the boyfriend said.
"She is an adult; she made her own decision," said her boyfriend, Kory McFarren. "I should have gotten help for her sooner; I admit that. But after a while, you kind of get used to it."
The case drew nationwide attention after Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the Ness City woman's skin had grown around the seat in the two years she apparently was in the bathroom.
"We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital," Whipple said. "The hospital removed it."
Yes, a 36 woman had to be physically removed from her boyfriend’s toilet after 2 years. People… I’m not sure how to react to this one. I laughed so hard that I couldn’t continue reading the article for a few minutes. I had to step out of the room and wipe the tears from my eyes with my shirt before choking down laugh after laugh just to reach the end of the page.
It turns out the woman developed a phobia of leaving the bathroom over time. She had been abused as a child and somehow developed the idea that her boyfriend’s bathroom was a safe place for her. I feel bad for this woman and her childhood, but I still think this is a bit ridiculous.
Her boyfriend didn’t notify anyone at all about his girlfriend’s dilemma for two years! Not until she seemed delirious one day like she “didn’t know what was going on.”
Really? It took 2 years of squatting on the toilet for her to seem a little oblivious to certain aspects of the situation? This guy either needs to be inducted into the Procrastination Hall of Fame for putting this one off for 2 damn years, or a helmet to protect his fragile little head from those awfully hard walls he must walk into daily.
Either way, I think everyone can agree on one little piece of advice for all the boyfriends out there:
If you’re girlfriend is on the toilet for more than a day… she MIGHT be a little “delirious”.
-Landon