I never knew I was supposed to run water while I peed (of course running water while standing shoulder to shoulder with 15 guys at a trough is probably redundant). As for me, I didn't find out what a "courtesy flush" was until I was in college when I was quite publicly informed. Talk about humiliating.

Amazing how embarrassed we all are about something that everyone one of us, boy and girl, does everyday. No wonder Freud was obsessed with this stuff.

There seems to be a constant tension between our own, personal, internal identity and the almost overwhelming desire to belong, to properly fulfill whatever roll we feel has been set before us. In many ways, I think fear of embarrassment (or the converse desire for acceptance and affection) is the most powerful motivator in our lives, outstripping greed, lust or almost anything else.