# As an adult, have you ever crapped your pants? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 18, 2003, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-an-adult-have-you-ever-crapped-your-pants/155905 "2003-02-18T16:17:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-an-adult-have-you-ever-crapped-your-pants/155905/21 "2003-02-19T00:35:03Z")
I have… 3 times, in fact, in the last 3 years, that I can specifically recall. No, I’m not some freak, I suffer from [Ulcerative Colitis](http://www.gicare.com/pated/ecdgs15.htm). If anyone has any questions about it or suffers a similar affliction, drop me a line on e-mail…I’d love to talk to you. Maybe I’ll start another thread on it sometime soon to avoid completely hijacking this one. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-an-adult-have-you-ever-crapped-your-pants/155905/22 "2003-02-19T01:23:58Z")
I did it twice, both times while commuting to NYC. The first time I’d only been employed for about 4 months. It was September of '89. I struggled epically on the bus ride in to retain myself. I got off the bus at the Port athority and walked carefully downstairs. I looked at the public bathrooms with the drug dealers, and the homeless hanging outside, but didn’t have the courage to go in. I walked out of the Port athority and to the Burger King next door, but they didn’t have a bathroom. I was in physical pain and sweating. That’s how bad I had to go. They said they couldn’t let me use their bathroom there, even though I begged. It was really quite a horrible pain as I walked back, determined to use the bathroom in the Port Athority. Halfway across the floor I lost control of myself completely. I was wearing boxer shorts and it just fell down my legs and out onto the floor. It was a combination of wet and solid matter and there was a lot of it. I found a stall in the bathroom and cleaned my legs and pants as best I could. Then I went to the men’s store in the bus station and tried to buy a pair of pants. My card got denied. I called my mother and told her what happened. Then, I took the Park n ride bus through the Lincoln Tunnel. My mother had brought towels for me. I went home hosed my suit off and threw it in the washing machine, then I took a very long shower and called into work to tell them I was sick. Getting home took over an hour, and I walked around soiled for that hour. It was very embarassing. The second time was a year and a half later. I was living in the city, and taking the subway to work and the same overpowering need came over me. I held it in deep physical pain all through the ride and all through the walk to the office. I held it in the elevator and when the doors opened, I thought to myself “thank God, I’ve made it!” and promptly crapped myself. Fortunately I wasn’t wearing boxers and fortunately it wasn’t liquid. Instead of getting off I just hit the button for the lobby and took the subway back home (standing.) Both were horrible experiences. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-an-adult-have-you-ever-crapped-your-pants/155905/23 "2003-02-19T02:51:46Z")
I’m neither “disgusted” nor “offended” at this thread or any of its responses. Not in a “bad mood” either. As I said, I can’t imagine any earthly reason why you or anyone else would care whether or not a bunch of strangers did this. You’ve explained that you don’t really care, that you’re doing it to entertain yourself at a boring job. Question answered, so I bid you good day. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-an-adult-have-you-ever-crapped-your-pants/155905/24 "2003-02-19T07:35:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Otto \* > \*\*Why do you care whether someone you’ve never met and are never likely to meet ever defecated in his or her pants? I mean really, not to sound like some goof or anything, but why on earth do you care? \*\* Camaraderie? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-an-adult-have-you-ever-crapped-your-pants/155905/25 "2003-02-19T08:08:03Z")
I did once. I was alone at the time, and in the car on the way to my house, so it wasn’t a problem. It was also very small… like the amount of toothpaste you’d put on your toothbrush. ---
**Author:** ![MisterThyristor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@MisterThyristor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MisterThyristor)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-an-adult-have-you-ever-crapped-your-pants/155905/26 "2003-02-19T12:04:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wolfman \* > \*\*We always called that a ‘Fart with a friend’. \*\* Also known as “JuicyFart”. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-an-adult-have-you-ever-crapped-your-pants/155905/27 "2003-02-19T14:56:51Z")
**Moderator’s Notes:** > [@](#): > > _Rhinostylee spake:_ I suppose since you’re a moderator, your opinion is somehow supposed to carry more weight. My lack of maturity makes you sad? Then don’t read my posts! No, my opinion of _you_ doesn’t necessarily carry any more weight than that of anyone else. Where the weight of my opinion **is** applied, however, is to the _content_ of this message board, and more specifically, this particular forum. I would also like to note that not reading your posts isn’t an option for me; I’m required to read as much as possible in this forum. In fact, before I posted my opinion, I read **all** of your posts. It’s not from this thread alone that I’ve formed my opinion of you, which is low and getting lower. Further, I suggest you do not attempt to tell me what to do, or not do; that is _highly_ inadvisable. > [@](#): > > _tesseract posted:_ I don’t know why, out of all the mundane, pointless, and sometimes slightly disgusting topics that have been discussed on this board, that they are singling out yours – or your defense of it – for admonition. I have not admonished anyone in this thread—up until my previous paragraph in this post. I simply gave my opinion of the poster and not of the topic. In no way did I comment on the topic. Anything more than a cursory reading of my post will show that. Another piece of information for you to consider: My remarks to Rhinostylee were made only after seeing the sheer _volume_ of dreck he’s posted. In reading his posts, I find example after example after example of what I believe to be his immaturity. It most certainly is **not** a case of singling out this particular topic. And a note to any and all that would comment on my actions here - all further discussion shall take place in the BBQ Pit. That is the proper forum for complaints and other commentary on moderator actions. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-an-adult-have-you-ever-crapped-your-pants/155905/28 "2003-02-19T15:37:54Z")
If we’ve suddently raised the bar to preclude immature, repetitious, mundane, pointless dreck we’ve lost the vast majority of the board. The hamsters can now rest easy. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-an-adult-have-you-ever-crapped-your-pants/155905/29 "2003-02-19T15:47:31Z")
**Moderator’s Notes:** What did I just say, plnnr? If you have remarks regarding my comments/actions, **put 'em in the Pit**. Isn’t that it? And once again, I’ve said not a goddamned thing about proscribing immature material. Read the post. Or are you being deliberately dense? ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-an-adult-have-you-ever-crapped-your-pants/155905/30 "2003-02-19T17:01:04Z")
Does this include wetsuits? ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-an-adult-have-you-ever-crapped-your-pants/155905/31 "2003-02-20T00:04:10Z")
I had called in sick the day before with “stomach problems” and really thought I was better. As I’m circulating in the OR, I hear my bowels rumbled ominously. We’re almost done and I think I can always use my patient’s bathroom if I can’t hold out another hour----bad protocol, but I didn’t care. As I arrange my patient, who’s not that okay yet, in her room, I feel warmth, trailing down the backs of my legs inside my scrubs. By the time I get her stabilized, I feel many trails of stickiness on the backs of my thighs, to my knees. I grab from the stock supply of maternity disposable undies and quickly squish along to the locker room, grabbing clean scrubs. I do a sponge-bath sort of thing in the bathroom, rinse the pants, throw my panties in the trash and emerge to finish the (thankfully) last 1/2 hour of my shift. Change into street clothes, go home and take a hot, hot shower. ---
**Author:** ![cleops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@cleops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cleops)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-an-adult-have-you-ever-crapped-your-pants/155905/32 "2003-02-20T03:08:45Z")
I just shit reading Otto and Uncle Beer’s posts. Really. I like to see how long I can go reading the SD before I have to run to the toilet. Sometimes I don’t make it. Sorry Unca. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-an-adult-have-you-ever-crapped-your-pants/155905/33 "2003-02-20T07:45:18Z")
Well…You know when you have some business on deck but you can’t tell if it is a fart or a poo… It was a fart. _whew!_ ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-an-adult-have-you-ever-crapped-your-pants/155905/34 "2003-02-20T08:35:32Z")
Never my **pants** , exactly, but at times, I have indeed moved my bowels at inappropriate times. Once, I had the flu, and I lost control of my bowels, in bed, 3 times in one night!! My poor hubby was stuck helping me change the sheets. Good thing it didn’t happen more than that, we were running out of clean sheets! Again, I was in the recovery room, recovering from a kidney stone retrieval. I was awake enough to feel what was happening, but not awake enough to control it, and my bowel moved. I kept apologizing to the nurses, and they were like, “Oh, don’t worry about it. Happens all the time” Well, if it’s happened to me at other times, I’m grateful I was still too far under to realize it! ---
**Author:** ![pilot141](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e0b2c6/32.png) [@pilot141](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pilot141)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-an-adult-have-you-ever-crapped-your-pants/155905/35 "2003-02-20T09:07:18Z")
After reading the OP, I didn’t know what to expect. After reading the link to **aha**'s thread, I was physically tired from laughing so much. After reading the rest of this thread, I felt like filing my tax return. I had a good story for this, but I’ll wait until the mood gets more jovial. ---
**Author:** ![jeff\_lebowski\_s\_brother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jeff\_lebowski\_s\_brother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeff_lebowski_s_brother)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-an-adult-have-you-ever-crapped-your-pants/155905/36 "2003-02-20T11:08:01Z")
Yes, this has happened to me, I think it probably fairly common. As a matter of fact, it happened to me about a week ago. I did not feel the pressure on my colin at all, I thought it was just gas. Wrong, I pooped in my drawers. Was not too bad, just embarrassing. I worked in a casino several years ago. I was on break and I took a whiz on the way back to work. I smelled a horrid smell. I looked over and I saw in the stall, the part between the end of the wall and the floor, a turd on the floor and poop on a poor man’s socks and pants. Must have been on the slots to long. Damn those buffets! ---
**Author:** ![MissBungle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@MissBungle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissBungle)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-an-adult-have-you-ever-crapped-your-pants/155905/37 "2003-02-20T19:03:16Z")
the technical term for it is called… a fumble. one can also call it ass spits… but a fumble sounds more innocent. ---
**Author:** ![malaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@malaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malaka)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-an-adult-have-you-ever-crapped-your-pants/155905/38 "2003-02-20T19:57:12Z")
Interestingly enough, I posted this story today on another message board that had a similar thread. I also think I’ve related the story here before. Regardless… I was around 22 years old when a greek friend and I met two girls at a bar and ended up back at their apartment. I hadn’t been eating very healthy (think Taco Bell) and had been drinking most of the night. My friend and I both “claimed” a girl and sat down on 2 couches that were next to each other around a coffee table. My friend and the other girl disappeared under a blanket and began doing what people under blankets do. My girl and I began looking at vacation pictures. _sigh_ Anyway, every 5 minutes or so, I would excuse myself to her bathroom…either to pee or just release some building pressure. On about the 4th trip, I was taking a leak and I tried to squeeze one out. The next thing I felt was warm liquid shooting down my right leg. I panicked. I removed my shoes and pants and underwear. My drawers were soaked. I wrapped them up in toilet paper and shoved them deep into her garbage. Then I attempted to dry my leg with more toilet paper. By this time, my trip was taking much too long and she had to have known that something was up. I still stunk, so I grabbed a bar of soap from her shower and began rubbing it up and down the back of my leg - a la deodorant. I quickly put my pants back on and pulled them as low on my waist as possible. As my white sock was now brown, I didn’t want to sit down and have my pant leg hike up revealing my mess. I made my way back to the living room, sat down and said loudly, in Greek, “Ekana scata mesa ta pantelonia mou!”. This means, “I just took a dump in my pants!”. She had no idea what I was saying, but my friends head quickly popped up from beneath the other blanket. I wish I had a camera. We both nodded, said a poilte goodbye to the girls and left. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![malaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@malaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malaka)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-an-adult-have-you-ever-crapped-your-pants/155905/39 "2003-02-20T20:08:47Z")
…and a new one (not about crapping my pants, but close enough): Warning…TMI below… When I was about 24, I was on a plane heading from San Diego to Denver. I was with a group of about 10-12 friends. We were scattered around the plane. I was sitting about 6 rows back. Next to me was sitting a very attractive lady. We began flirting. Now, for the past several days I had been on an eating, drinking and smoking binge taht is hard to compare. Needless to say, I had angry stomach. When the “fasten seatbelt” lights finally turned off, there was a rush to the front of the plane where the bathrooms were. I waited patiently until the line got short. Then, I excused myself and headed up front. Two of my friends were sitting in the front row and immediately knew why I was there. When there was only 1 woman in front of me, I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned to see the woman I was flirting with. She was in line. I offered then begged for her to go first. I was going to put a hurting on that bathroom and I didn’t need her to follow my act. She refused, so I decided to go as quikcly as possible to avoid suspicion. I entered, sat and pushed as hard as I could. After only a few seconds I was done. I stood and turned to inspect my accomplishments. Know, if you’ve ever been in one of those airplane bathrooms, you know how they look. The bowl is stainless steel and has a little trapdoor at the bottom. I had left a load about the consistency of mud and about the size of a softball stuck to the side. I flushed and watched in horror as the blue water swirled round and round but didn’t move the pile. I flushed again and again. No luck. Time was against me so I quickly wrapped my hand in toilet paper and proceeded to poke and prod the pile until it disappeared down the hole. I washed and made a hasty exit. Once ouotside, I warned the lady behind me about the stink the lady in front of me had left. She entered and I bent down to tell my friends what had happened before returning to my seat. As they were laughing, I stood to walk back and nearly knocked myself backwards hitting my head on one of those low hanging tv monitors they have in the isles. The first 5 rows of the plane erupted in laughter. _sigh_🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mearl\_Dox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Mearl\_Dox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mearl_Dox)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-an-adult-have-you-ever-crapped-your-pants/155905/40 "2003-02-20T21:22:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DirkGntly \* > \*\*I have… > 3 times, in fact, in the last 3 years, that I can specifically recall. No, I’m not some freak, I suffer from [Ulcerative Colitis](http://www.gicare.com/pated/ecdgs15.htm). If anyone has any questions about it or suffers a similar affliction, drop me a line on e-mail…I’d love to talk to you. > > Maybe I’ll start another thread on it sometime soon to avoid completely hijacking this one. \*\* Hey, I have the twin sister of that, Crohn’s! I’ve had it since I was a kid, but a few months ago when I was having a flareup I too had the, ah, “I could have sworn that was gas” condition. I don’t usually suffer from diarrhea that badly in a flareup, though… badly enough that I run to the bathroom frequently, but I catch the stuff. On the other hand, the first time I tried to use a toilet for #1 in Japan, I ended up ruining a pair of pants in a public bathroom… but that’s a horror story for another thread… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-an-adult-have-you-ever-crapped-your-pants/155905.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-an-adult-have-you-ever-crapped-your-pants/155905.md?page=3)