Reblogged from Thought Catalog:
Dear person pooping quietly in the public bathroom stall next to me,
Please don't feel ashamed. I know. I get it. You're a person and I'm a person, and as fellow people you and I are both aware that taking a poop in a public bathroom is mildly traumatizing. The ever-present threat of somebody hearing the poop. The constant paranoia of facing the other person in the bathroom when you leave the stall.
THIS.