After a couple days of eating the same food... beans, rice, trail mix, granola, dried apricots, everyones poo is the same. Or should be. A good instructor needs to ask the students questions about poo and pee. How much, how often, describe it. Because as you know feces are the barometer of your body's wellness. So after a couple days the new kid is starting to freak out and wants to go home because he/she's sick. So what's up you ask? My poo, it's not right. As an instructor you've heard this story sooooooo many times. So you describe their poo for them without seeing it. It's like Dairy Queen softserve but kinda orange? Yeah. That's OK, that's the way it should be. It's from eating stuff like dried apricots every day. After a week or so on trail even the most uptight kids will give long-winded elaborate descriptions of their poo. Most entertaining.
I was thinking about apologizing for the graphic content of this post....... nah.