Poopie Swap

Today I heard an especially funny story from a Japanese man…

He told me that about forty years ago, while he was in school, he played a prank that had the school in a fit for a week. This story is funny on so many levels…

According to this man, about 40 years ago in elementary schools in Japan it was a common health test for kids to be required to bring in a bit of ’shouben’, or, a stool sample (the solid kind, number 2, you know… dookie… 小便!) to be tested for various things. They would prepare a piece of dookie at home, scrape it in to a little cup, seal it into a few special plastic bags, and give it to their teacher the next day.

One day, on the way to school, this guy forgot to bring his sample. Fearing he would be scolded or get in trouble at school, he looked around desperately for some way to escape the situation.

On the way to school, he saw some dog crap on the ground.

Yup.

He picked up the dog crap, put it into his sample container, and turned it in to his teacher when he got to school. His teacher then turned it into the health office, and they ran their tests.

Now, remember that this kid is in elementary school. He was really just trying to do the right thing!

The nurses ran their tests, freaked, and went wild. They called this kids parents in, told him to stay home from school until they figured out why he had so many strange types of bacteria, and other things uncommon in human feces. Apparently the school was up in arms for a week over this…

Now that’s hilarious.