ANSWERS: 21
  • poop has to be kept secret. you're not suppossed to mention it in any way. I suggest you go for the hills before they track you.
  • I just avoid it because you never know who's been on that toilet seat and what they did. But then, I'm a guy, you can't not sit as easily as me.
  • It isn't. Unless it makes a big splash that everyone can hear, or it turns into a life-or-death struggle and you are in there for 15 minutes. But otherwise, a quick and crisply executed dump in a public restroom is in no way embarrassing.
  • I have absolutely no idea. It amazes me when I hear people say they can't or won't use a public restroom to defecate. I can understand the cleanliness reasons but if I were overly worried about cleanliness, I would bring along some towelettes to clean up before I sit. Honestly there is more to worry about on the door and sink handles.
  • may be its not just the poop. it's the stink and sound effects that are embarrassing.
  • if you have the squirts, it makes an awful sound hitting the water and then the odor is unreal.... i am lucky, i have a one person water closet at my job... no one next to me listening or stinking.. and when i am done i spray the "lysol" type of deodorizer like crazy
  • Because it takes pooping from a private abstraction to a public odoriferous, buttock-splashed reality. It's like thinking about your parents having sex. You know they had to do it at least once for every child they had, but your mind wants to skitter away from the whole subject as quickly as possible.
  • Because it smells
  • I don't believe you poop. Say it isn't so.
  • I think this is an instinctive aversion. Social creatures remove themselves from the group to defecate. Those who "foul their own nest" expose the whole group to infectious diseases. Observe a person walking a dog who poops. Both the person and the dog look away from each other and any onlookers. I think this is also the reason that the odor of others' poop is experienced as disgusting.
  • Public toilets are nearly always badly ventilated so when somebody does a poo, the place gets stunk out. I would only do number 2 in a public toilet if I knew I couldn't hang on until I got home and am now tempted to carry air freshener with me at all times just in case.
  • It probably starts when you are a baby and people make faces and groan when you poop in your nappy! From then on you think that there's something wrong with doing it. I can barely use the work toilets to pee, never mind anything else!
  • It's not, you can get some of your best work done in a public bathroom. I do think it depends on the cleanliness of the bathroom too though.
  • I personally feel that pooping in a public toilet is embarrassing because you are insecure. I went through a stage in life where I would not use a public toilet because I thought homosexuality was contagious (this is when I was closetted). I thought that my bum, touching the same toilet seat of another man, would make me gay! Low and behold, I "came out of the closet" at age 24. Since I am much more secure, I find that having a bowel movement in public is not an issue. I use the toilet anywhere and any place that it is available (providing that it is clean). I even used my best friends toilet while having diarrhea (he was in the very next room). I used to have a problem with this but I no longer do :)
  • It is?! ;-)
  • Because to many people someone pooping is unpleasant to watch so the person pooping goes somewhere private to do their pooping. Just like blowing your nose.
  • Because you are not using the cubicle.
  • I am not embarassed to poop in public. In fact, I like to orchestrate a percussive rhythm by clapping my hands and stamping my feet in time to the medley of farts and splashes. This is especially fun to do at Niketown.
  • It's because, at heart, we are all still 9 years old and think pooping is funny. So we are afraid when the sound effects start we will either laugh out loud or will be the person they are laughing out loud at.
  • I don't know i mean espically girls are embarrised about this i mean its only natural. I think where my sister worked once a 16year old girl came in and went into the toilet, she started to push out a dump and after a while you could smell her poop that reeking out on the shop floor. The girl exploded into the bowl and just left it there.
  • The echo of the act. I think public restrooms are designed to amplify even the slightest bodily function into a rock concert result.

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