As that one very famous and very wise saying goes: “Everybody poops.” It’s a fact of life, even if poop is kind of… really gross. We often don’t like to think about how our digestive system works, ...

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The C train never smells very good to me, but it’s usually tolerable. Not last night. A man sitting alone in the corner of the train was laughing jovially as I got on, a poopy smell wafting through ...