saw a guy pour litres of piss down a gutter
We were coming down the steep hill from Rato in the direction of the Parliament. In the distance, a dark figure stooped over on the side of the narrow road, cars dodging him, people passing by giving him odd looks.
From where we were, I could see he was pouring some amber liquid from those 5 litres bottles of mineral water you buy from the store. His back was towards us so I couldn't clearly see what was going on, but as we approached I figured it was some moron pouring cooking oil in the gutter.
Drawing closer, I realised that all the bottles were different shades of yellow. My internet brain immediately sent the signal1, and I turned round to the Gnome to tell her to hold her breath.
We held on for dear life, as this person continued their business. I counted atleast 6 bottles, which if every one of them was 5 litres, must have been the equivalent of 30 litres of urine.
Thinking we're out of the danger zone I inhaled for fresh air.
I gagged.
The stench of piss was following us, tens of metres down the road. I look back in horror thinking that maybe I am not far enough, I should have held my breath for longer. Then it hits me... the gutters. The piss was travelling down beneath us and decanting out onto the street. I was this close to vomiting.
Thinking fast,the Gnome suggests we cross to the other side. Tactical genius, it worked.
What sort of absolute freak does that? I assume he lives close to the gutter because there is no way he walked with 30 litres of piss from further away. But holding on to that amount of piss?
I mean, I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, and I assume that whoever this person is does not currently have running water in their house. And I mean, what he was doing is disgusting but the truth it there is a lot of extremely poor people in Lisbon right now that are getting railed in the ass by housing. Although whether he's getting railed or not doesn't really give him license to pour stale urine down a public gutter, surely there are better ways.
You can be poor and have dignity, this guy could do this in so many other ways. Certified chaotic evil behaviour.
I remember watching a video on YouTube of some streamer who was saving all his piss in jugs, and he had drama with his mother because, reasonably, she wanted him to stop. The thing that stuck with me was that every bottle had a different colour, and the people in the comments were pointing it out. Thanks internet.↩