A guy and his family stopped off at a Taco Bell, where the dude ate a whole lot of spicy tacos before hitting the road once again. Not long later, he was doing an “anal butt clench of death” as his stomach started rumbling. He had to hold it for another few miles before stopping at another Taco Bell and letting loose in the bathroom.

He said it was “the most foul smelling” thing he’d ever known and quickly rushed out without even flushing. Just as he was driving away, he saw some Taco Bell workers coming outside to chase after him.

One guy remembered a time when he was 10 years old, walked into a public bathroom, and saw poop sprayed all over the walls of the stalls! Then, a half naked lady with poop on her legs started walking towards him. He ran out of that place faster than a bullet from a gun!

Pooping in public is even worse when you’re a little guy or girl! You have to sit on that dirty seat, whether you like it or not.

One woman found herself in desperate need of a bathroom and rushed into the nearest McDonald’s. Sadly, she quickly found that her chosen stall had run out of toilet paper. Without anything else to use, she had to improvise. She pulled off her own underwear and used that to wipe herself before visiting a local shop to buy some more.

These kinds of stalls are the absolute worst. Unless you’re some kind of exhibitionist or someone who really has no shame, it’s pretty much impossible to poop in one of these things.

One unfortunate woman was visiting a beautiful beach when she suddenly felt a desperate urge to poop. She rushed to the nearest toilet, but realized that she needed to untie her bathing suit first. Unfortunately, her body had already given up the fight and she was pooping everywhere. A janitor was cleaning the other stalls at the time and decided to hand her some extra TP under the stall door.

A guy went to his high school dance, hoping to have a great night and make some fun memories. Unfortunately, due to anxiety and irritable bowels, he found himself needing to poop really badly and there was only one stall in the boys’ toilets. He finally got in and let loose, leading to all the other guys waiting outside to start yelling and banging on the door in disgust.

Why do automatic flushes just never seem to work the way they’re supposed to? It’s never fun to get sprayed with water when you’re trying to ‘relax’.

One poor guy was waiting around for a free stall in the men’s room when an old man walked in, clearly needing to poop very badly. When he saw that no stalls were free, the old timer dropped his pants, turned around to face a urinal, and sprayed diarrhea everywhere. Some of it even ended up on the unfortunate guy’s feet and legs, as he was standing nearby.

Another guy was waiting around for a stall to open up. Unfortunately, a door opened and a little kid walked out, stared the guy right in the eyes and said “warmed it up for ya!”

Sometimes, even when you’re not the one doing the pooping, you still feel super awkward and just end up leaving the bathroom pretty quickly.

Many offices can have single occupant stalls that people of any gender can use. That was the case at one guy’s workplace, and he stepped up to a stall which had a ‘Vacant’ sign on the front, but was horrified to open it up and see a woman sitting on the toilet right in the middle of doing her business.

Shocked, he closed the door quickly and started wondering what he could possibly say when she opened the door and confronted him. Moments later, she walked out with a cane and he realized she was blind so hadn’t noticed anything.

A guy was peacefully pooping in a public restroom when he noticed someone walk into the stall beside him. It was a homeless man, who proceeded to spend about 10 minutes telling the guy his life story before asking for some cash! The guy gave him $5 just so he could be left to poop in peace.

Some people will go to extreme lengths just to get out of pooping in public! This guy ‘reprogrammed’ his whole body to change his poop schedule.

A guy was at a bar with his buddy, who was drinking way too much and needed to throw up. He rushed into the toilets, burst into the nearest stall, vomited all over the poor dude who was sitting there. Then, worrying that the poor guy might get angry and want to fight him, the drunk dude punched him and ran away!

Lots of people like to play around on their phones while using the bathroom. It’s not exactly hygienic, but it’s a way to pass the time. Unfortunately, a few people have shared stories of dropping their phones in the dirty water as they sat down and then having to fish them back out. One guy even said he was so disgusted he just left his phone behind!

This is one of the worst public pooping nightmares! Always make sure your phone is on silent when you’re in such a confined and intimate place.

Here’s a story that, sadly, many people can relate to. One woman walked into the only available stall and saw that the toilet was filled with pee and poop. The toilet had an automatic sensor for flushing, but it wasn’t working! After waving her hand in front of the sensor for five minutes, the woman gave up and used the toilet anyway, pinching her nose to avoid the smell.

A guy was waiting in line for the bathroom during a football game when he suddenly saw an old dude drop his pants and squat down over the garbage can! When everyone started yelling at the old man, he simply replied “What am I supposed to do?” Hold it a little longer like everyone else, maybe?

This is what modern technology is all about: being able to chat to your grandma, face to face, even while using a public restroom.

One girl needed to pee while visiting a dollar store. She rushed to the bathroom and saw a stall that was slightly open, so pushed the door, only to find a totally naked old lady inside just about to pull up her pants. The old woman screamed, and the girl learned a valuable lesson about knocking before entering.

A guy walked into a supermarket bathroom and saw a dad holding his infant over one of the sinks, letting the baby just poop straight down. Moments later, a security guard walked in and started yelling at the dad.

It’s one of the most awkward things in the world when you need to poop but you know some stranger (or worse, a colleague!) is sitting in the stall right next to you.

A guy was sitting on the toilet in a public restroom when he heard the old guy in the stall next to him suddenly yelling “Oh no! Oh no!” Moments later, another old guy knocked on the door and said “Are you okay?” The first old responded “It’s happening again!” Then, an awful smell started to appear.

This might seem like overkill, and it probably is, but getting through that first public poop is a big achievement!

Two little girls were scarred for life after getting stuck inside a stall together! The lock was really strong and they just couldn’t get out. Eventually, their screaming attracted the attention of a woman who had to dive over the door and reach the lock to let them out.

If only poop didn’t smell bad, the world would be a better place and using public restrooms wouldn’t be quite so bad. Maybe this little fragrant spray can help!

A guy and some friends stopped off at a fast food joint and he rushed straight to the bathroom. Realizing that all the stalls in the men’s room were busy, he decided to sneak into the women’s room and do his business there. He says he “destroyed” the toilet and then opened the stall door to see six women waiting to use it. Quickly, he rushed past them and yelled at his friends “We gotta go!”

We’ve all used this classic TP trick when using public bathrooms. In fact, the seats are probably pretty clean because everyone is too scared to ever actually sit on them.

One guy found himself in an awful situation after entering a Turkish toilet with diarrhea and then discovering there was no toilet paper in the area. Apparently, over there, you’re supposed to bring your own! He was forced to clean himself with his hand and then rinse it off in the sink. Ew! To make matters worse, when he got inside, a huge line of kids were waiting to use the same stall.

One of the worst things of all about using public bathrooms is imagining all the other butts that have sat on that seat and doing everything you can to avoid making contact.

While living in India, one guy was riding a train and suffering from food poisoning. He found himself having to use the on-board toilet, which was basically just a hole in the floor. He called it the “perfect storm” of bathroom drama.

If you want to avoid pooping in public, drinking lots of coffee is definitely not the best idea.

One kid was left in his car while his dad went to buy groceries. He needed to use the bathroom so bad and knew he couldn’t make it to a public toilet or wait to get home, so he pooped right on the floor of the car and used the dad’s ice scraper to shovel it out the window.

Top public pooping tip: always choose the corner stall. At least that way, you don’t have to worry about people being on both sides of you.

The night before flying out for a buddy’s wedding, a guy and a few friends got really drunk to celebrate the occasion. The next morning, feeling hungover and sick, the guy got on the plane. He was sitting beside an old woman with something really stinky in her bag that made him feel even worse. Moments later, in front of everyone, he was “crying and puking and farting relentlessly”.

Nobody really likes using public bathrooms and most people try to avoid using them, but sometimes, your body has other ideas.

Women, of course, have a few more toilet-related issues to think about than men. One poor lady was walking down the street when she realized her period had started and she had no sanitary products to hand. She rushed to a bathroom to grab some tissue, but by that time she says she looked like a ‘survivor of a shark attack’.

This is so true. At home, all your ‘inhibitions’ are set free, but in public, pooping can feel like Mission: Impossible.

One guy had a truly tragic tale to tell. He was feeling pretty bad and pretty much pooped himself, rushing to the bathroom to try and make the best of a bad situation. When he went to wipe himself, he accidentally let the toilet paper roll away out of the stall, so shuffled out to get it, still with his pants down. Right at that moment, two other people walked in and saw the whole scene.

Wow. This is a pretty extreme length to go to just to avoid being recognized when pooping at work!

During an overnight ride, a bus stopped off at a rest stop. They were running late, so the tour guides told everyone to just use whichever toilets were available. A lady walked into the men’s room and saw a big turd sitting right on the floor.

One lady was peacefully minding her own business and doing her own business in a public bathroom when a little girl peeked through the gap in the door and started telling her she needed to sit, rather than squatting over the bowl. Eventually, the lady yelled at the girl to go away and her mom got mad!

This is actually a pretty good idea and a true act of kindness in the dark and scary world of public pooping.

Most of us like to be in and out of public bathrooms as fast as possible, but for the people whose job it is to clean them, that just isn’t possible! And they have some true horror stories to tell. One maintenance worker remembers spending a whole hour cleaning just one toilet that had been clocked up with vomit and splashed all over the floor.

People can do some really dirty things in public restrooms. And we mean really dirty! One woman remembers walking into a stall and seeing a bloody tampon stuck to the wall.

Some of the more modern toilets out there these days actually have built-in air fresheners. Awesome!

One guy walked into a Walmart bathroom and sat down in a stall. To his surprise, the old man in the stall next to him started whistling a rag-time tune and tapping his feet to the beat as he did his business. When he eventually realized he wasn’t alone, he got angry at the other guy for interrupting his ‘me time’.

You know you should really just say something simple like “Someone’s in here!” but instead your mind freaks out and you just end up staying silent and hoping they go away.

A guy stopped off at a rest stop bathroom early in the morning during a long drive. He heard another user of the restroom ‘masturbating furiously’ in a stall beside him and cleared his throat to let the guy know he wasn’t alone, but that didn’t stop him!

This is so true. How do people do that? You really need to have a special level of confidence to happily chat with someone in the stall beside you while pooping at the same time.

Using a public restroom as a woman can come with a whole bunch of extra challenges to overcome. One woman entered a stall to do her business when she noticed that the woman in the stall beside her was clearly a ‘hoverer’, squatting above the seat and spraying pee all over the floor, even onto the first lady’s purse! To make matters worse, the hovering woman didn’t even seem to care and walked out of there without washing her hands.

One woman was using a public restoom with a pretty old door that didn’t lock too well. Moments later, a drunk lady rushed into the same stall to throw up and ended up vomiting all over the poor woman.

One of the golden rules of using a public bathroom is to always be 100% sure that the door is locked and secure. One girl made the mistake of leaving her stall door unlocked, and another girl opened up and saw her squatting over the porcelain throne.

Pooping in public is bad enough in the best of times, but when you’re feeling ill, it’s so much worse. One girl had a very upset stomach and just had to do her business in the school restroom, even when she knew a classmate was in the stall beside her. Unfortunately, her ‘Hershey squirts’ overflowed and ran over into the next stall. The other girl screamed and ran out.

One girl will never forget walking into the school bathrooms before her next class and hearing moaning coming from one of the stalls. Moments later, a sheepish-looking girl walked out and revealed that her boyfriend had turned her on so much she just had to do ‘something’ about it.

When you use a public bathroom, you expect to hear (and make) a few unpleasant sounds, but that’s nothing compared to what one woman went through at a J C Penney bathroom many years ago. She entered the stall and suddenly heard what she described as Exorcist-style screaming from the stall next to her. What was going on in there!? She didn’t stick around to find out.

A 10 year old girl was asked by her parents to take her little sister to the restroom. When she got there, the little one started pooping super loudly and then yelled “Wipe my butt!” over and over to her sister, who later described the story as a ‘genuinely scarring experience’.

A guy was waiting in line at a busy public restroom when a panicked man rushed in and banged on the stall doors, saying it was “an emergency”. When nobody let him enter, he apologized to the waiting crowd, dropped his pants, and exploded all over the walls! Obviously, everyone immediately ran out after that.

One woman was sitting on a public toilet when she noticed a little hand reach out from under the stall door and touch the tattoo on her foot. Moments later, a toddler’s face appeared beneath the door as well, staring up at the lady as she used the bathroom! Now that’s enough to make anyone feel awkward.