A Shower of Sanitation: Because 2024, Naturally Seriously? Portable toilets? Falling off a truck? On a Massachusetts highway? Is this some elaborate performance art piece I missed the memo on? Because frankly, it feels like the universe is just mocking us at this point

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Published: 11/4/2025 10:53:48 AM

## A Shower of Sanitation: Because 2024, Naturally

Seriously? Portable toilets? Falling off a truck? On a Massachusetts highway? Is this some elaborate performance art piece I missed the memo on? Because frankly, it feels like the universe is just mocking us at this point. We’re all striving for efficiency, for seamless technology, for *something* that makes modern life even marginally less frustrating, and what do we get? A cascade of plastic thrones cascading onto Route 128!

The sheer absurdity! You know, I’m sure there were people on their way to incredibly important meetings. People with deadlines breathing down their necks. And they’re stuck behind a scene resembling a bizarre, fragrant obstacle course crafted from discarded sanitation units. Imagine the reports: “Traffic delayed due to… *portable restroom incident*.” I can already picture the HR departments drafting new protocols for roadside biohazard response.

And you just know someone recorded it. Someone had their phone out immediately, capturing this masterpiece of vehicular misfortune and uploading it to some social media platform where it will be ironically celebrated with a soundtrack of jaunty ukulele music. Because that’s what we do now. We document the chaos. We meme the misery.

It’s almost poetic, really. Here we are, hurtling towards an AI-powered future (a future promised to solve all our problems, naturally), and reality delivers a pungent reminder of how utterly chaotic things can be. A sudden shower of plastic sanitation – a potent metaphor for the fragility of order, I suppose.

I’m not even angry. Just… deeply amused. And slightly worried about where this is all heading. Next week? Self-driving cars spontaneously combusting in fountains? Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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