Do you look under the stall?

hepcats · February 2012

One of the funniest things that ever happened to me was one time when I was at work and I had to drop a deuce. We were pretty much the only company on that floor so I knew that if I went into that bathroom and did my bidness that my feet would be recognized. When I first went in, no one was there. Midway through, someone enters, so I raise my legs straight in front of me so that no one can see my feet. This isn't terribly weird because I was in the last stall and that one's door always closed after you left, it was never open, and she did not try the door to see if that stall was available.

Well, once she finishes going to the restroom, as she's walking out, the janitor arrives at the door (male) and asks if there's anyone else in there. She says (of course) no. Now I'm in a bit of a pickle. I have to pipe up, but not so soon as that she will hear me. God forbid she know I was sitting there the whole time with my feet up. As soon as I'm pretty sure she's out of earshot, I let him know that there is, in fact, someone in here. It was pretty embarrassing but funny at the same time.

Anyhoo, the point of this post is that my DH and I argue all the time about the benefits of lifting your feet so that no one can identify the shiiter in the room. He thinks it's silly and I think it's common practice.

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gymnst1013 · February 2012

Haha - this is a hilarious poll

I don't lift my feet but I do everything in my power to stop pooping if someone comes in!

PurdueMama14 · February 2012

No pooping in public for me! I'd rather have a bowel obstruction than get caught stinking up the bathroom!! Indifferent

Sunidaze · February 2012

If I gotta do #2, I make sure no one else is in there before getting down to business. If someone comes in mid-poo, I wrap it up and move on out, to be continued at a later time. The only exception to this is when I was pregnant, I suffered from horrible constipation...I mean it was like a warm-up for childbirth it was so bad. In those instances, I did not pick my feet up, but if someone else came in, I just sat there quietly waiting for them get the hell out so I could get back to it.

Debbie0580 · February 2012

all i have to say is bwahahahaahahahhahahah.

sunset+skies · February 2012

This is where being a night owl worked well for me, while I was still working. Our office building has 21 floors, but only our office is open past 7pm. I would try to work the latest shift possible (5pm - 1am) so that if I could use any other floor I wanted to do my business. I picked a different floor every time.

SarahP15 · February 2012

OMG LOL!!! It never occurred to me to lift my legs if I'm pooping, but I *really* try not to poop in public, and if I have to, I try really really hard to find a single bathroom. I wear pretty plain shoes though so I don't think I'd be too identifiable.

klovesp95 · February 2012

I love everything about this post. especially the dropping deuces part. I envy people who just don't sh!t in public. I am in awe, really. When I have to go, I have to GO. I have probably pooped everywhere..Target, Home Depot, Dunkin Donuts, Buy Buy Baby, your house....

I don't lift my feet. Luckily, I'm usually in Uggs so my shoes don't stand out. In the summer though, with flip flops...I just pray you can't see my piggie polish to identify me. I am totally guilty of the shoe peep when I am in the stall though and someone is sh!tting. Then when if I see the pooper later in my shopping I giggle inside. Yeah, I'm 6.

CarlaAndJames · February 2012

klovesp95:
I love everything about this post. especially the dropping deuces part. I envy people who just don't sh!t in public. I am in awe, really. When I have to go, I have to GO. I have probably pooped everywhere..Target, Home Depot, Dunkin Donuts, Buy Buy Baby, your house....

Yeah, same here! Especially since I had my gallbladder removed. I go from zero to "hafta go NOW" really fast!

monkeysmama62 · February 2012

I don't look under the stall but I then again I also don't go poo in public restrooms unless I'm to the point where I'm about to shat myself.

hepcats · February 2012

klovesp95:
I love everything about this post. especially the dropping deuces part. I envy people who just don't sh!t in public. I am in awe, really. When I have to go, I have to GO. I have probably pooped everywhere..Target, Home Depot, Dunkin Donuts, Buy Buy Baby, your house....

Bwahahahahahahaha.

klovesp95:
I don't lift my feet. Luckily, I'm usually in Uggs so my shoes don't stand out. In the summer though, with flip flops...I just pray you can't see my piggie polish to identify me. I am totally guilty of the shoe peep when I am in the stall though and someone is sh!tting. Then when if I see the pooper later in my shopping I giggle inside. Yeah, I'm 6.

I totally do this too!

kimbo1216 · February 2012

I'm usually so quick that I don't really care to. If it were somewhere where everyone knew me and I was having issues, then it would be different. I'd probably have to lift then.

rainstar752 · February 2012

That story is hilarious.

I don't lift my feet, but I do try to time it for when the other person is either flushing or using the sink so the "sounds" won't be so loud- lol!

In Japan, they have a button you can push to make sounds (it's like a loud flushing sound) so it will "cover up" the real sounds. We totally need that in the States!

CantWait2Be · February 2012

I really hate going in public but when I gotta go I gotta go. Here's one that may be worse than op's situation: I work in a small office and the bathroom is in the back near the kitchen which people can walk past freely anytime, it's a one staller. I'm pretty regular and more often than not my body decides it's time to go during my lunch break. I'm the only one in the office that doesn't live close enough to work to go home on my lunch, everyone else leaves during their lunch. Nothing I can do about it but I hate it.

meringue123 · February 2012

This is hilarious! I am pretty efficient, so I go everywhere, but like gym, I just sit quietly if someone else enters the restroom....then I wait for the flush to let it plop. Ha, that was so TMI!

Tellyb0228 · February 2012

klovesp95:
I love everything about this post. especially the dropping deuces part. I envy people who just don't sh!t in public. I am in awe, really. When I have to go, I have to GO. I have probably pooped everywhere..Target, Home Depot, Dunkin Donuts, Buy Buy Baby, your house....
I don't lift my feet. Luckily, I'm usually in Uggs so my shoes don't stand out. In the summer though, with flip flops...I just pray you can't see my piggie polish to identify me. I am totally guilty of the shoe peep when I am in the stall though and someone is sh!tting. Then when if I see the pooper later in my shopping I giggle inside. Yeah, I'm 6.

Ahahaha. I'm the same way. I used to refuse to do it anywhere other than home. Any where is fair game now because I have ulcerative colitis.

bookkitten · February 2012

klovesp95:

I love everything about this post. especially the dropping deuces part. I envy people who just don't sh!t in public. I am in awe, really. When I have to go, I have to GO. I have probably pooped everywhere..Target, Home Depot, Dunkin Donuts, Buy Buy Baby, your house....

Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! That is pretty much me, too. Everyone does it and I just don't care if people know I poop, too!

BTW, Hepcat - Best. Clicky Poll. EVER. The SS option made me LOL for realsies!

hepcats · February 2012

bookkitten:
BTW, Hepcat - Best. Clicky Poll. EVER. The SS option made me LOL for realsies!

LOL thank you, thank you very mush ::Elvis hip wiggle, head bob::

hollster8 · February 2012

LOL!

Sounds like you need THESE.

hepcats · February 2012

hollster8:
LOL!
Sounds like you need THESE.

OMG those are awesome! lol

MrsPBNJ0220 · February 2012

I unfortunately try not to do my doo in public! I can not even stand for DH to know I am pooing. However the unfortunate part is that I have IBS so it isn't so easy to just not do it. When I worked at my last job I went to the public bathroom and I would do a lot of the previous mentioned stuff, do it while a flush is going on, water is running, even loudly lift the tampon trash lid as to cover any noise. That is until I found out that there was a private bathroom that the executive office could use and after 2 years of working in the executive part I started going there.

Even though there were two stalls there was only one key so complete privacy. I would still courtesy flush midway and carry the air freshner in with me to the stall to spray as I went! Okay was that TMI? LOL!!!!

ETA: I hope I hide it well enough that the face DS has in my siggy will be his face one day when he realizes that women poo too!

justme04 · February 2012

I have no shame. When my mother's boyfriend took us all out to dinner as a way to break the ice I was the rudest gassiest person alive...I was 16 and deffinatly knew better and certainly was taught not to behave that way in public.

But I usually just let her rip and to hell with the people around me knowing about it...lol.

OpheliaChem · February 2012

As you know, I work at a school. The closest bathroom to my room is the bathroom the kids use. We only have one faculty bathroom (well, one for women, one for men) and its on the other side of the building. Sooo I use the girl's room to go potty and if I have to poop, I go. Yes, girls have walked in while I'm going and of course, its obvious I'm a teacher by my shoes. So if someone walks in, I start pulling toilet paper like its my job and pretend that I just peed and I'm finishing up :-D Then I wait until they leave before coming out. Or I quickly wash my hands and leave while they are in the stall.

bunnymama625 · February 2012

No way I'd lift my feet-- I need traction!!

RobinSparkles81 · February 2012

LMAO

I voted SS because I've never thought of lifting my feet. I usually either flush before it "plops" and/or I lay down a few sheets of TP in the water...they help to decrease the splash sound.