... to not poop in a toilet that's not at home?

[ImJustMadAboutSaffron]

If I can, that is, barring being taken short or being on holiday?

As long as you clean up after yourself, I couldn’t give a shit

That's me! I will go on holiday, but apart from that, I'll only go at home.

I could never do a shit at work. Honestly, if I was desperate (never happens), I would sooner drive home. I think this is very common with women. I was in the office on Tuesday and popped to the loo. On my way in, I met a colleague coming out. She said 'it stinks in there, IT WASN'T ME!' Then I stressed that someone would go in after me and think it was me...

My son (19) will shit anywhere - doesn't bother him in the slightest. But to me, it's a thing I do at home and I have a compliant arse and go first thing and last thing every day.

Best retort l ever heard to this (from a cubicle) was 'What does yours fucking smell of ? roses?'

I have no issue with this but I object to streak marks 😂

It's called shy bowel and it's quite common.

I find it hard to go when not at home, particularly other people’s houses or when sharing a hotel room. My body just seems to
’know.’ It’s a bit weird.

I mean...how do you manage this? Genuinely don't you need to have a poo at work sometimes? Or when you're out and about?
And also not letting visitors use your loo/being offended if they poo in it is rude and wrong on so many levels.

I only go at home unless on holiday. Don't like staying at relatives as means I won't go for a couple of days. I usually go after a coffee every morning. Would never go at work!
Unless someone was ill, I wouldn't like it if someone did it at my house but understand sometimes people need to go.
I think I got this from my mum who always said to go at home.

To minimise aromas, you poo, then flush, then wipe, then flush

#yourewelcome

I don't like going anywhere other than home, it wasn't too much of an issue until i hit the menopause, then my system was all over the place.

I could go five or six times one day or sometimes not go for three or four days. I might be fairly normal and go just once a day for several days. It is still very random when I need to go which does tend to make me nervous at times if I'm out.

I usually go before work

I can usually hold on till I get home as a last resort

Quite...yet still backed up by many others 🙄

I poo in the toilet closest to wherever the urge takes me. I on/off suffer with chronic constipation and so I NEVER ignore the urge, it could be three days before I get it again.

I have recently upped my fibre somewhat and this is helping the constipation side of things but still, I go when I need to.

If you’ve got to go, you’ve got to go. Better out than in! I just hate it when someone doesn’t clean the pan if it leaves stains, dirty b@$tards.

I am a sad IBS person, too...so I can, and will go, when and where I have to. There aren't many worse feelings than not knowing where you can go if you suddenly have that pressurized rolling stomach feel. My grandchildren have been sworn to not use the "grandma pooped in a cornfield on the way home" story at my funeral, but alas, it was true and we all survived, and luckily, the corn field was big enough & tall enough to cover me up. So, go if you need to, and if you can't and would rather go at home---just do you!

I run
Drink caffeine
Eat healthily
Poo once a day after my coffee and then have a shower straight after.

I struggle on holiday as my bum says no, this isn't home. I often take Senna on holiday as I know it'll happen and then I feel uncomfortable.

I can only poo in my toilet at home. I've been like this since I was a child.

Me, when nature needs, then in nature it is, just have to be careful in the bushes, from nettles etc, when hiking ect.

I almost never need to poo when I’m not at home, even if I go away for a few days. I will feel really bloated and horrible but can’t go even if I sit on the toilet for ages.I will suddenly need to go when I’m almost home though so have to make an desperate dash in the door to get to the bathroom. It really annoying and I have no control over it but my brain is obviously responsible for it in some way🤷‍♀️

This is as weird a question to me as me asking you why you need to go at work or when you are out and about. Why don't I need to go to the toilet? Fuck knows. But I don't. If I had to go I would but I genuinely can't remember a time where I have had to. Bodies work differently.

They do it because they are scared when they come out someone will find out.

Like the old joke about the person who goes to use a cubicle, sees poo smeared all over the floor and the walls and dashes straight back out. The second person heads for that cubicle, sees the devastation and dashes out as well; then the first person says "I just did that!"

OK OK, "judge" is too harsh a term. Surely I'd only know if someone had had a poo if there was evidence? If there's no trace, then I wouldn't mind... I'd just find it incredibly strange and off-putting if my family or in laws came around and I knew they were doing a poo. It's literally never happened that I know of?? (My BFF would get a free pass as she has IBS)

I prefer home but if you've got to go you've got to go.

Though I walked I to the work toilets this week, it stunk, could stay I their long enough to wee so went to the other toilet. But that's what it's there for so if it smells it smells. (Pleased there was an alternative though!)

I give you “south of Knutsford Services M6, November 2008, poo under the bridge near the end of a 3 hour fog-bound crash stop”.

I asked the police officer patrolling the stopped lanes if I could get out and go as I have Crohns. He said he’d rather that than following the hordes trotting back to Knutsford Services and abandoning their cars, and just to watch out for emergency vehicles in the hard shoulder. (Those who didn’t return by the time they reopened the motorway were having their cars bounced off the road to the side).

@LakieLady That reminds me of the in Two Weeks Notice which I makes me cringe so much every time I've seen it.

I have ulcerative colitis and wouldn't be able to leave the house if I was like you lot who think it's dreadful to poo anywhere but home.

However I'm generally quick about it and it takes no longer than having a wee so most of them no one would be any the wiser.