Bluxorf

It’s happened to everyone, but more so when we’re children: you’re about to go to a place where a bathroom is unavailable. Most of the time, that means you’re taking a long ride in the car. But sometimes it means you’ll be at the movies, a concert, a play, or even in church, knowing that you’ll have to step over people or interrupt a performance in order to leave the room for the bathroom.

When you’re a child, an adult will inevitably tell you that you should “go” before the event in question. Many times, a child will claim they don’t have to go, either because they don’t want to, or because they simply don’t know their own bodies. When an adult fails to use the bathroom before said event, sometimes it’s for the same reasons, but more often than not, alcohol is involved. Now the person in question has to inconvenience others because of poor bathroom decision-making. You’ve been there, probably on both ends: you and your family get in the car for the three and a half hour ride to The Cape, but now you have to make the driver stop somewhere twenty minutes in because you need a bathroom. This is known as a “bluxorf”: “Blu” from the word “blunder”, “orf” from the word “corf”, which is a container used to hold live fish in water, and “x”, which simply means you screwed up.

No one likes a bluxorfer.