Okay, BikerBoy here. In my brief 22 months, I learned a few do's and don'ts of draining my bag. For the faint of heart, don't read any further. These are for home or away. At home, my R.V. is nice; the toilet is like an outhouse. Open the seat, unclip, swing out, and drop. Nice, no mess, wipe, drop, and flush. But in public, there are some different rules. I do a test flush, and if the water keeps flushing, great, same as home, but keep the handle flushing and use one hand to drop. But if the toilet has a tank, you only have a few seconds to drain your bag before the flush stops. Several times the flush stopped before I could drain and got some splash back. Now, when I was a farmer and milking cows, I would occasionally get a tail with crap on it right across the mouth. It didn't taste good then, and it doesn't taste good now either, and it's MY crap.
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So I'm careful to get the timing down now. When out in the wilderness, there are problems too. I drained on a bush once; the wind blew, and the bush, well, let's just say I won't do that again. One time the toilet had a line while at a bar, but there was a urinal open, well, I won't get into that one either. Let's just say the laws of physics change when you have an ostomy.
I have a lady friend who has a drain that hangs down from her bag about a foot. She told me one time while doing business, she flushed the toilet while sitting down, and it yanked her bag clean off. She didn't have a spare (it was in her car), so she took the bag out of the waste basket in the restroom, walked out of the casino, right to her car. Ya do what ya gotta do.
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