Should You Send Poop Pictures To Your Friends If They Are Married? It's A Question And A Conversation Worth Having So Let's Do Just That
Like baseball, there are lots of unspoken rules in society. For example, you don't hold the door open for someone unless they are less than 25 feet behind you. Otherwise, they have to speed up and grab the door. Your kindness becomes an inconvenience. If you are pulling into the gas station pumps, you pull to the furthest one available so someone else can slide in behind you. You don't wanna be a dick to other gas needers. If people at like a starbucks are doing the silly ole pay it forward game, you can stop the game if the next car has multiple orders or if it exceeds your original order by more than 20 percent. You're not on the hook for other's extravagant drinks. Those examples are common sense.
Kate had an example today of something I had never thought about in terms of norms. Kate and I are like brother and sister. We have similar personalities and enjoy the same type of silly things. We both poop goof- though not nearly as much as we used to because the haters were always out in full force smh.
Kate talked about having "an adorable little poop" and she was downtrodden that there weren't others in her life that she could share that little droplet of sunshine with. She even tweeted about the lack of poop pic pals that she knew since leaving the Marine Corps. Obviously and rightfully, other people started taggin me in the post. "Why not chaps?"
Her response was that I'm married, and she could not in good conscience send the pic. I had never thought about that but she was probably right. You cant share poop pics with married people. I don't like to be a traditionalist in most senses of the word, but there is a certain level of decorum that one must honor when the other people are wed or betrothed. Kate, showing the deepest level of respect for my wife, declined to share a picture that would have brought herself great joy. It's that sense of self-sacrifice that makes her a great friend.
I'm not sure what other societal norms there are with poop pics. I do, however, know that it's the deepest level of trust you can have with a non-romantic partner to share one. Lots of people are offended. Im not. Think about it this way:
When you first meet someone or talk to them, in any fashion, in any setting, you are nervous about pooping. People don't like to do it on dates until they are really comfortable. You don't want to do it at a friend's house unless they are really good friends. Why? Because people poop shame. Most people walk into new relationships believing that the other person believes that they have never nor will they ever poop. The truth of the matter is that they do poop and them showing the proof via picture is honesty on levels that are rarely seen in the modern era. So, if you get a poop picture, your response shouldn't be ew or gross. It should be "thank you for trusting me with this information. I will guard it with my heart." If you don't do that, you are a terrible friend. Listen to me and my friends talk about this and much much more on today's Zero Blog 30.