In 2002 while in Japan, Andy McBean set out on a remarkable mission--to record every single visit to the toilet made over a year. Not just the bizarre ones involving attacks with fire extinguishers or suffering from hypothermia, but every single visit. It was a grand vision encompassing not just the minutiae of bowel movements but the broad social sweep of environment and society--the people and the places, the act of getting to and getting from--as he puts it so eloquently in his foreword "the whole flipping rigmarole of toileting." The Japanese experiment ended in disaster--crashing and burning on a cold night in Tokyo--but Andy was undeterred, and when he had recovered sufficiently he took up the challenge again. This is a record of a year in the life of one man. Some say a brave man, some say foolhardy, others call him a halfwit. And through this record the world can share with him his pain, his pleasure; the tears of laughter, the cries of despair--a moving experience like no other.