I think what really grabbed people’s attention is that he kept refusing to explain why he wanted to do that.
Whatever his reason was, it was such a stupid thing to be memeing about that I felt at home here right away. Edit: this was a while back now, during the first big migration from reddit after the API change protests.
That’s what did it for me. I kept wondering how the reason could possibly be worse or more embarrassing than the question itself.
I thought that “music festival” was a great guess. Those porta-johns get nasty.
My guess was cave exploration. He said he was going to a remote area where pooping was an option, but he didn’t want to, which makes sense when you know you’ve gotta carry that shit out with you in your cave pack. There are only a handful of scientific cave expeditions that go into caves for three days, so I figured that if he said so, he would unequivocally dox himself.
Another good one! Not wanting to dox himself explains the motivation to hide the reason, which was the biggest mystery.
Haj was a great guess too
Yes it was. Bonus points for taking timing into account!
What if the concern wasn’t that he would have to use a disgusting bathroom, but rather that he takes horrible shits and didn’t want someone to know?
I mean, I’d certainly be embarrassed to have to tell the internet something like “I’m visiting my in-laws for a few days, and I really want them to like me. The problem is that I shit like a farm animal, and they only have one bathroom.”
Literally everybody poops. It does not need to be a source of shame, EVERYONE does it.