Am I the only one who does this?! Feel massively judged by my friends

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Girly dinner this week - not the classiest of conversations but it was somehow brought up that I use the loo at work for all ‘eventualities’.

They were horrified and said it’s strictly wee only for them.

Am I really that unusual?!

Holding poo isn’t good for you so if you need to go you have to go - perhaps they are lucky with regular habits

toilets should be properly ventilated

if you are worried about your smell eat much less meat and diary

I wholeheartedly agree. I love a bit of poo chat. Perfectly normal. (Except the poster who said they go in the small wooded area by the office when Maccies is busy - I’m judging them 😆)

OK, I stand corrected. When I had office jobs I worked with a lot of young women who preferred to have a poo (where possible) before they left home so I was just reflecting on my own memories. Happy days!

Being serious and forgetting about 'sensibilities', not going for a poo when you need to is bad for us. Holding your poo or getting constipated can create a lazy bowel, but it's also means the toxins are in your bowel and could contribute to bowel cancer long term.

It's a funny old world when we now have TV adverts for period san pro showing RED blood, for once, yet women are so squeamish about having a poo outside their own houses.

I agree it's tricky going in a friend's house but usually if you wash your hands with soap in the basin, the smell of the soap does help!

Just marvellous for anyone with asthma or allergy to perfume (that's sarcasm in case you can't tell). And please don't try that in an NHS area - I've had to evacuate (no pun intended) patients after someone set off the fire alarm with body spray.

Not everyone has to go immediately, and some of us don’t get the urge unless we’re at home - it’s like your body knows!

My daughter is the same - was on a residential trip recently and didn’t need to go until a few minutes after she got home!

I did wonder when I wrote cue if it was the correct spelling!!

Your friends are ridiculous.
If I need a shit I'll go to the toilet, don't care where I am. It's actually a bonus of I'm at work, getting paid to have a shit? Fabulous.

We have toilets at work with really low water pressure so some times even toilet roll doesn't go down. No way I'm using those to poo!

I once worked with a woman who had diarrhea at work. She was dancing around saying it was coming out but that she couldn't possibly go at work and would wait another hour until she finished. Bizarre that she'd tell people she needed to poo but wouldn't use the toilet.

Personally if I need to go I'll go but of course I'll make sure everything is clean afterwards.

It was indeed the correct spelling; it's just also the same spelling for a snooker stick and I'm about 4 years old

That is absolutely bonkers. Aside from the fact that it's clearly far more dignified to discreetly go to a toilet and use it as a toilet, even if you do leave a bit of a to-be-expected odour afterwards, rather than broadcast it to everybody in the office... when you have the raging trots, it IS going to force its way out somewhere, and angrily and quickly.

Do you want that place to be a purpose-designed porcelain toilet with a powerful in-built flush mechanism, or would you prefer it to be in your pants and/or all over the office carpet? Either/or; it's your choice!

Thoroughly enjoyable thread. Read it all on the bog at work.

Why? Firstly, people are different - I know babies who poo in every nappy and others who go every three days, and adults I assume are also differently wired.

Secondly, there are medical conditions that mean you can't, or shouldn't, hold it.

I do understand if you’ve got to go you’ve got to go, but in the entirety of my working life I’ve only ever pooed at work about twice, and once I can recall in a McDonald’s when I was out for the day. I can’t fathom how so many people would need so many poos at work.

@Adelle79360 It's normal to poo up to 4 times a day (more than that it's worth seeing a dr.) Some people do poo that often, others poo once every 3 days.

A lot depends on diet. If you eat loads of fruit ,veg and wholegrains it has to come out sometime.

Decades ago I worked in an office where every morning one of the female staff would come in and head straight for the loo. She said that eating chocolate always 'made her go'. The unspoken message was 'Give it a few mins before you go in!'

I don't know why you think everyone poos 'to order' before leaving home.

Surely people realise when entering a toilet that it may well smell like a toilet?

Just like, if you go to a zoo, you surely aren't outraged if it smells of animals and their associated odours?

Also, before the ban, you'd have been bonkers to go into a pub and to be shocked or horrified to find that it smelled of smoke. Except that it wasn't because of the smell that it was banned - and it isn't actually going to kill or harm you if you happen to catch a whiff of the tail end of somebody else's poo in a communal toilet room.

I'd rather just use the spray 😅

So he doesn't want to use a loo for its intended purpose at your place, but he doesn't mind talking to you about his poos? That's properly weird.

He gets easily embarrassed so the idea of stinking out the loo horrifies him. We have 3 toilets and so they have their own bathroom when pil stay. It’s so weird. I wonder if he’d be as happy to stink out Waitrose? 😆🤷🏻‍♀️

Does he think that people are going to judge or be disgusted with him - for doing something that every single one of them also does on a very frequent basis?!

As my own lovely FIL used to say of anybody who was held up as an unrealistically great or noble person, "Yeah, but his/her shit still stinks!"

Your post reminds me of the old joke:

'I empty my bowels every morning at 7.00 am as regular as clockwork. Unfortunately, I dont get up until 7.30.'

I think if I mentioned the word “poo” in front of him he’d run from the room. He’s odd.

Wow, did he have some kind of childhood poo-related trauma or similar?

Like with a lot of the widespread 'toilet refusers', I get that people are a bit squeamish about the smell (although it seems to bother women far more than men in general); but adult life isn't all sunbeams, unicorns and lollipops.

I presume he also 'declined' his share of the mundane parenting duties when his children were little and never changed any nappies?

I can’t imagine he ever changed a nappy. He was once stood by our newborn twins and said “oh she just spit up” so dh said “catch” and threw him a muslin cloth. He was shocked and mumbled something and mil wiped baby’s spit up. (We had a toddler and twins and that was the only help we ever asked him to do). His oddness reaches beyond poo 😂 and I’m amazed dh is quite normal.

He reminds me of Squeamish Zoo Keeper from The Fast Show!

How can you even function as an adult like that?!