Thu, 17 Jul 2008
Pee Prank
I've changed my Internet Server Provider (ISP) and that's kept me pretty busy over the past week. I also changed my networking setup. I'm now using powerline ethernet adapters, which transmit information ove the apartment wiring. That solves a problem I had with the wireless sometimes dropping out. I still have my wireless adapter on the network, for when I bring my laptop home. While I was going through my correspondence and cleaning it up, I stumbled on this story Michael Bilingsley told about Trungpa Rinpoche. I thought I should preserve it for the sake of any future researcher into Rinpoche's bathroom behavior.
I had been so traumatized by my own father that I could never pee in front of anyone... which in turn made it extremely difficult for me in the crowded single-sex toilet plus two urinal bathroom at Tail of the Tiger. My bed in the sewing room was right at the bottom of the stairs from the bathroom, so I'd wait sometimes two hours for all the activity up there to die out before betting I could get a chance alone at the urinal - whereupon nine times out of ten, Rinpoche would pop out of his room (even if it was 1 a.m.) and slide in next to me at the other urinal... humming some little ditty and grinning from ear-to-ear. I'd totally freeze up and just stand there doing nothing and feeling foolish until he left. It happened practically every time.
Students of homeopathy will know that inability to pee in front of others is a keynote of Natrum Muriaticm.
