Redditors who shit their pants as an adult, what happened?

Fuck it, I don't need a throwaway for this. The short answer to your question is norovirus. The long answer is what follows.

I worked in assisted living for 5 years. I loved, LOVED, my job, but there was a period of time that we all referred to as "Shit Katrina". One of the kitchen workers had apparently diarrhead all the way from the back entrance, trailed it to the cooler, through the kitchen, and into the dining room. She'd picked up norovirus from some unholy church potluck and invited it into the food service of a fucking retirement home. They cleaned it the best they could, but there are some things that just don't die that easily. Norovirus is one of those things.

People started getting sick. We tried to stop it but when you contract something via shit and shit is EVERYWHERE, it becomes unavoidable. We had accepted our fate at this point. It was a waiting game. We were fucked. And officially quarantined after 3 days. Nobody in, nobody out.

I was feeling pretty cocky as I'd avoided most of the madness at this point. I was living with two other aides in a model room as we still couldn't leave but I wasn't shivomiting at that point. Then it happened. All of a sudden, I felt cold. Then hot. Then cold. My head felt all staticky, my stomach made a noise like a slow drain clearing, and my blood pressure dropped as I can only assume that my body needed as much blood around my ass as possible for what was about to happen.

I screamed "FUUUUUCK" and ran to the bathroom but it was mostly too late. About half made it into the toilet. The rest was in the floor and my scrubs. The force of the shit should have been enough to launch my ass into space, but lucky for me I had to grab the bathtub and vomit into it, so that kept me grounded. I wept half-naked as my body did its damndest to expel everyfuckingthing in my body out of any available orifice.

It gets worse.

The other aide that was staying in the room with me got sick about half an hour into my body's knock off of The Purge. She came runwaddling in, frantically cryvomiting with a WalMart bag hooked around her ears like a reverse feedbag so her hands were free hold the trashcan under her ass. She wails "I'M SORRY!!" which I don't think was intended for me, more likely for whatever ShitLord deity had decided to punish us all. Just then, the WalMart bag comes unhooked and vomit spilled all over me, her, the floor. Fuck it. It didn't matter at that point. Excrement is just excrement when you're all excreting.

All because one sick person shit their pants, an entire building full of adults shit their pants. All of us. Ostomy bags exploded. 2 seniors died. Bathroom privacy became null.

TL;DR: Norovirus caused Shit Katrina in an old folks home.

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