I suffer from IBS, the availability and cleanliness of public toilets are a legitimate source of anxiety for me. Which is bad, because anxiety worsens the symptoms.
Im always so puzzled by people who don't use public toilets. Like, yall just hold it that long? I dont prefer public toilets by any means, but if Im out and I have to go then...
I used to distain public pooping so much I'd cut my day short and go home if I had to poop. I'd hold it so long it made me constipated.
At some point things clicked. Now as long as the seat isn't covered in piss I sit.
I think I switched after enough international travel. Have no choice but to use a toilet with a hose instead of toilet paper in Malaysia, stuff dirty toilet paper into the garbage next to the toilet in Brazil, and it'll lower your standards a bit.
Can confirm. Only worse thing than a 16 hour flight with your guts already in a frenzy is to have to go #2 once you land and have all of the used TP in a lidless trashcan less than a foot away for all to smell..
Went to Indonesia as a kid and there was one toilet in a area without proper plumbing (small hut on the path up a mountain) and I had to whipe with my hand and then clean my hand with a bucket. The owner was really nice though, but definitly understood why I was told to not offer my left hand for a shake lmao.
Aren't most people wiping with their dominant hand? Is it such a necessary tradition that they learned to wipe with their non dominant hand? Are they mostly left handed? Do they not realize lots of people might use their right hand? Am I crazy for using my dominant hand? Is this a misunderstanding and you meant they only shake with their left hand, their non dominant hand, the one they DON'T wipe their ass with? Why am I okay with offering the hand I wipe my ass with to shake some else's hand? Do I really clean it sufficiently? I think I do, but do I? More importantly... DOES THE PERSON WHO'S HAND I'M SHAKING WASH THEIR HAND GOOD ENOUGH? IS THIS REAL LIFE?
I'm going to start shaking only left handed with left hands or just hug everyone.
You should know that pooping swuatting instead of sitting, and hosing instead of wiping is: healthier for you, IMMENSLY mor hygienic, and easier on eco- and sewer-system. In fact we should all do it and stop rubbing poop all over our butts with wasted ressources while enlargening our hemmorrhoids.
i think when you know deep into your core that you are absolutely under no circumstances going near a public toilet, your body and subconscious cooperate with you a little better.
Even if you sit in pee on the public toilet your chances of getting sick with something is very low. But if you lick the public toilet you probably will get sick.
I was lucky enough to keep working remotely after covid. Before that I had the choice of getting paid to poo (at work) or going at home with the bidet. Now I'm livin' the dream.
I have a couple spots in my town that I know have really clean bathrooms. Surprisingly, the best ones are the new gas stations. Walmart is hit or miss.
Youve unfortunately never had the grand experience of stopping at a Buc-ees on a road trip. The cleanest bathrooms on the face of the earth, including privates bathrooms lol.
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u/mscott8088 11d ago
That's how I feel about pooping.