Necessary Evil

The doctors told him he needed to spend less time sitting down on the toilet, but it was his quiet place. The only place he could hide safely from the outside world and breathe for a minute. Nevertheless, they gave him some suppositories and instructions. He waited at the bathroom door in the hospital, pounding on it a few times, but to no avail: Some woman was laughing in there. Embarrassment overtook him and he held it all the way until he got back home, stuck in traffic because of some raging house fire