I remember bending to look at the world upside down in between my legs. It seemed like the ground was the roof and people were walking upside down. It was really fun to do until this myth about doing it in a market place and seeing spirits with human torsos and goat legs began to spread. Furthermore, it was said that if the spirits saw you doing it and realised that you could see them, they’d come to you and slap you in the face, so that you would go mad and not be able to tell anybody what you had seen. There was another version that talked about spirits that walked with their heads. I believed it all.

I had now grown a little older than the ‘Shit Coin’ story version of myself, and I was now allowed to use the bathroom. Hurray! It felt great...
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