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?!

I just use the loo at work if i need to i get stomach pains otherwise. I figure as long as the bowl is clean when i leave and I wash my hands (as always) whats the issue?

Love you for this comment 🙌🏼

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Just snorted my tea out of my nose!!

Prissy or pissy? 😏

No, the closest toilets to me is a room with 4 separate cubicles with gaps at the bottom so smells and sounds will pass to the next stall. Elsewhere in the workplace are stand alone cubicles with a full floor to ceiling wall and a sink also in the same room where noises and smells are enclosed.

sorry if that wasn’t clear originally

How the heck is this allowed? To have a toiler door open straight into an office?!

What do they do if they need the loo for other eventualities?

I have active bowels and often poo 3 x a day- sometimes with urgency - slight IBS.

I am jealous of anyone who can hold it in.

I go in friend's homes if needed, public loos, shop loos, cafes, and wherever there is one.

I leave it clean, double or triple flush, and wait till the pong has gone before leaving the cubicle.

Those of you in offices, who worry about the smell, can't you stretch to a room spray to 'clear the air'? Good blast with an aerosol spray does the trick if there is no window to open.

If you need to go, you need to go.
Thankfully there is male and female bathrooms. I'd probably feel self conscious in a mixed bathroom.

Yep, far better to get it all out in one go in the appropriate place rather than 'paying in instalments' for the whole day where everybody has to suffer for hours on end.

You'd get banned for life from the local snooker club, though.

There's actually sprays you can get that you spray in the toilet bowl before you go, which 'trap' the smell in the toilet!

I normally go before work at home in the mornings. However there have been odd occasions when I have had to go at work. I am not someone that can hold it these days. By choice I would not go at work as it's a shared toilet but I think I have been fortunate that no one has come in when doing the deed!

true...and it's taken all these posts for someone to say that. Smelly gaseous emissions, the sort that you can't control!

None of my kids will poo at school, consequently we get home at 3 and the bathroom is out of action whilst they all do their business (one after the other, obviously 🙄). It seems really unhealthy to me but i can’t tell them when to go!

I have really heavy periods and as a consequence sometimes I just have to hang out in the toilet at work so I guess some people just assume I spend a lot of time shitting, so I got over it a while ago.

What?! I don’t fart just because I haven’t had a poo. Two different bodily functions in my world.
Some of you have odd digestive systems.

I think men like a dump as a territorial thing.

I like an outside dump. Compost loos are also fine . Not keen on a small flimsy cubicle that my colleagues can chat to me through the door .

Please don’t mention Hyacinth and poo in the same post. Where’s your sense of decorum?

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that’s why I crap on company time.

What?! I don’t fart just because I haven’t had a poo. Two different bodily functions in my world.

Really? Do you never find that a few windypuffs of increasing intensity act as your four-minute warning that you need to dash and be seated behind closed doors? Is it just me?!

I don't care, I'll sh!t anywhere. No way am I holding it all day.

My mum and son won't do it anywhere but home.

No; that's what a loo is for!

I have Crohns, and couldn't possibly always avoid the workplace loo for all purposes.

The loo should be positioned sufficiently far away from where people are actually working to prevent its smells and sounds from easily reaching them, but this is not your responsibility.

I have only ever encountered this paranoia about workplace loos on MN. Nowhere else,

I’m now fully homebased so currently a non issue, but when I’ve previously been hybrid/office based I’d always try my best to avoid pooing at work. I would go if I really needed to as I’m not prepared to cause myself health issues or be working in discomfort just because I feel a little embarrassed about performing a bodily function in a shared facility but I never felt comfortable.

I do have a close friend who was previously a colleague and in over 20 years there, never pooed in the workplace loos. That said, she did grow up with an abusive Dad who, amongst other things, used to control and dominate toilet trips. Things like any time her or her siblings farted around him, they would be made to go to the toilet and forced to stay on there (in some cases for hours) until they actually had a poo. For some reason in his head the need to fart equated to the need to have a poo. No surprises she’s suffered with constipation and other issues since.

Small wooded area. No way 😂🙈. You win the internet for today I am laughing so much. Good on you. If you need to go you need to go. What a legend.

I can't tell if you're joking or not but I'm definitely LOLing.

Read their other post that I've just quoted - gets funnier!! 😅😅