reason 297 why I'm glad I made this career change

I haven't posted anything in MONTHS cause I haven't had anything worth posting really.  Til today...
it was a shitty weather day here in Indy, so traffic was reaaaally slow. I was training on Local Control (clearing planes for takeoff and landing) and I had 2 planes taxiing out for departure, an Air Tran (callsign “Citrus”) in front of a US Airways regional jet (callsign “Brickyard”).  Air Tran was holding WAY short of the runway, and USAir had a release time.  It went a little something like this:

me: Citrus###, you ready to go?
pilot: uh… we’re… ummmm… we’re gonna need a couple minutes.  we have a passenger out of their seat… he’s… uhmmmmm… doin a number 2

I look at my trainer and we burst out laughing.  I’m pretty sure “doin a number 2” is not found anywhere in the 7110.65 or the AIM.  So I go back…

me: roger, hold short of the runway and advise when ready

couple minutes pass, I retell the story to everyone else in the tower who didn’t have the joy of hearing it… it’s getting close to the Brickyard’s release time so my trainer keys up

trainer: hey, citrus, maybe if you start moving, he’ll stop going!!

the pilot comes back and LOLs on the air and says something dumb, and another couple minutes pass while my coworkers and I make immature shit jokes. finally they call back

pilot: uhhh, hey tower, this is Citrus###, our passenger finally pinched it off, we’re ready for takeoff!


uhh, yes.  the pilot not only used the phrase “doin a number 2”, he topped it by saying “pinched it off”!!!  I always jokingly called Citrus “Shitrus”, cause I like to swear as much as possible, but today they really earned that nickname. probably the funniest thing that’s happened to me in my short career at the FAA.