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I am currently wearing one of DD's nappies as a makeshift sanitary pad...what's the most unglamorous moment of your life so far?!

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BarbaraVineFan · 30/01/2023 21:13

I have been on the coil since 2020 and literally never had a period or anything approaching one. Randomly tonight I have come on my period and had nothing in the house :/ no friends locally enough to ask and DD asleep so couldn't go to a shop.. Hence the nappy trick (which feels a bit like wearing an entire roll of loo roll in my knickers!)

I think this might be a new low in the unglamorous stakes, even for me. Can anyone top this?!

OP posts:
Maxitaxi123 · 30/01/2023 21:17

I once had to poop into an Asda shopping bag 🙌😂😂

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BarbaraVineFan · 30/01/2023 21:18

That is pretty unglamorous to be fair @Maxitaxi123 😂

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LeafHunter · 30/01/2023 21:22

I had hideous upset stomach as a student and my housemate was in the bath. I was too embarrassed to ask her to get out so I poo’d in a Tupperware and buried it in the garden.

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Genevie82 · 30/01/2023 21:31

😂😂😂

XenoBitch · 30/01/2023 21:34

Walked my dog and she had a shite.. and I had no poo bag. I did have a sanitary towel though... I used the wrapper from the towel to pick up the poo, but it was not big enough Confused

XenoBitch · 30/01/2023 21:36

I also knew of someone who was deep in an intense chess game with someone. He needed the loo, so shat in his own hand and hid it behind his back for the duration of the chess match.

QuestionableMouse · 30/01/2023 21:39

XenoBitch · 30/01/2023 21:36

I also knew of someone who was deep in an intense chess game with someone. He needed the loo, so shat in his own hand and hid it behind his back for the duration of the chess match.

I don't believe that for a second. The stink would give it away, surely. And how did he get it out of his trousers without getting it all over? Nah. Has to be made up!

XenoBitch · 30/01/2023 21:44

QuestionableMouse · 30/01/2023 21:39

I don't believe that for a second. The stink would give it away, surely. And how did he get it out of his trousers without getting it all over? Nah. Has to be made up!

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It was true. And there are trading card games (Magic: The Gathering is a an example) where people would rather just piss into the seat instead of walking away from the game.

golddustwomen · 30/01/2023 21:44

Oh my god @Maxitaxi123 me too!!

sunseaandme · 30/01/2023 21:55

I shat myself in a peacocks changing room once, and also shat myself while laying in bed next to my boyfriend at the time. I have Crohn's disease so I have an excuse!!!!! 😂😂

TaRaDeBumDeAy · 30/01/2023 21:57

You aren't the only one op, I'm sure I've read the op before.

EL8888 · 30/01/2023 22:00

Last weekend l had a bad cold and reflux (quite pregnant with twins!).The coughing and acid led to me vomiting into an empty pizza box. Luckily l was at home and only my husband saw

imSatanhonest · 30/01/2023 22:16

Went for a walk with my young DD. The grass was wet through, her shoes and socks got soaked. We hid in some bushes whilst I took my socks off and gave her them and I tore a sanitary towel in half to stick in each of her shoes. Needs must.

Calling · 30/01/2023 22:23

Farting during a meeting. It was just a little one and we were outside and I just pretended nothing had happened.

Princesspollyyy · 30/01/2023 22:30

We only have one bathroom in our house and I'm regularly caught short. If I'm dying for a wee I use the measuring jug in the kitchen and pour it down the sink.

Never had to do that with a poo yet but been close.

Hoppinggreen · 30/01/2023 22:32

I walked around Munich with sanitary towels in my boots to stop them rubbing

DatasCat · 30/01/2023 22:39

Oh God I remember an absolutely awful holiday in Turkey once when I was about 19 - it was unbearably hot, the quality of the food was doubtful, the men were creeps (luckily I was with my parents). My stomach, usually cast iron, did not enjoy that fortnight. At one stage I was sitting outside the beach loos throwing up, having failed to make it, and just as I felt everything go at once, up popped a small blond very English boy to say ‘Boo!’ 😳

Iris1976 · 30/01/2023 22:42

Had constipation so bought the chocolate laxative,let's just say I ate too much,in the middle of nowhere on a dog walk when poonami happened,had to phone my mum to come meet me at the nearest public toilets that were luckily on the quieter end of town.

LondonLovie · 30/01/2023 22:46

Many years ago I crapped myself in the currency exchange changing my money back to sterling after a terrible holiday to Tunisa. Had spent most of the holiday in my room on the loo as it was.. had to spend the money I exchanged back on some new trousers and knickers from M&S!

IWasFunBeforeMum · 30/01/2023 22:49

Had to wee in a Tupperware box in a queue on the M6 once.

MrsMarkRonson · 30/01/2023 22:49

Had a vomiting bug (was literally spewing eve.r 10 min ugh) and was also weeing when I was spewing, had no sanitary pads in the house so had to use a nappy

MarmiteCoriander · 30/01/2023 22:51

I lived in the Middle East for a few years as a child and visited the horse stables occasionally. The only toilet was an outside, stand alone box with no lighting. I recall suddenly feeling stomach pain and running to this out house in the dark. I had to feel all around inside the toilet cubical to feel where the seat was, then after the explosion, realised there was no toilet paper inside anywhere, nor a sink 😫

MarmiteCoriander · 30/01/2023 22:55

sunseaandme · 30/01/2023 21:55

I shat myself in a peacocks changing room once, and also shat myself while laying in bed next to my boyfriend at the time. I have Crohn's disease so I have an excuse!!!!! 😂😂

That sounds awful @sunseaandme , but I wouldn't have said you have an excuse! Don't you wear any protective pads in case this happens? Sounds like it happens often for you?

StillMedusa · 30/01/2023 22:57

Norovirus a few years ago... I had my head down the loo vomiting copiously when the other end started to fire uncontrollably... I couldn't stop vomiting long enough to turn round so I pulled the cat litter tray next to the loo under me and pooed into that! I had to throw away my pants and leggings.

Even worse.. the cat WATCHED me with a WTF look on her face Grin

thaegumathteth · 30/01/2023 23:00

@MarmiteCoriander do you mean to be so condescending?

I've probably had a lot more since I had kids that I've blocked out of my memory but pre kids I had to pee into a bin in my room because we had 1 toilet between 6 of us at Uni. I'd have asked the girls to let me in but it was one of the boys and going by the porn stashed behind the loo they were probably wanking so I decided against interrupting.