let me start by saying i could write a story similar to this everyday about how driving my car impacts my everyday functioning. i don't write about them because they are such a fabric of the experience and it's just a non stop thing, but for someone to get what it's like to drive the fagbug this one story illustrates all of that best.

so after being in DC for the reel affirmations film festival I drove back and went out for drinks with a friend, after drinks i had to go the bathroom so we went to one gas station they were closed, as i was pulling out of there to go find another one because with every creeping second the urgency became quite evident that i had to pee uncontrollably, i can't even recall a time where i had to go the bathroom this bad in maybe ten years, you don't realize until your in the situation how horrible it is and there are no places open or with restrooms around, it was after two, so on the way out of gas station numero uno, a man pulling in yells out to me, "wait a minute." i guess for some reason he felt like he really needed to talk to me. i had to go so bad i ignored him, left the gas station and was on a hunt for another one, that was my goal, and my needs came above his at that point as they most likely should but in other situations its not as cut and dry.

went to gas station number two, no restrooms, are you serious? as i open the door to go back outside, i am realizing i can't see myself holding it any longer, i see a hotel across the street and think i can make it just in time to get there not a second longer, at that time, the man from the gas station blocks away comes up to me and tells me his sons told him to find the rainbow bug they saw (they were not in the car or with him) he asked for us to pose in front of the car, i was like i have to pee i am not posing i gotta go, i will take a quick photo of you in front of the car, proof you found it then i seriously have to go, went to the hotel the guy said i couldn't use it because it was "inside." obviously hotels have bathrooms, they have hundreds. i was like omg are you kidding me right now, so in the end found a grocery store but its laughable to me how crazy people go over the fagbug like hi its just a rainbow bug and says fagbug i know its shocking and a once in a lifetime chance to spot it and talk to whoever drives it but for me i have these interactions like thousands of times a month and also am a person who has to pee.