# Do libraries have a laxative effect on everyone?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 1, 2024, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-libraries-have-a-laxative-effect-on-everyone/1003598 "2024-07-01T20:46:21Z")\
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> [@wguy123](#):
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> Eating Arby’s - most definitely. I haven’t eaten there in 20+ years. I wonder if it would still have that effect?

For most folks, digestion does not get more robust with age; rather the opposite. Were you to visit an Arby’s today, I might advise inspecting their bathroom for operability and tolerable cleanliness _before_ you start eating. Just sayin’ 😉

  

> [@Chronos](#):
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> Huh, I opened this thread because I was curious about who bumped it. I’m certain I’ve seen this exact question here once, years ago.

You Good Sir, have an awesome memory. Perhaps we could even say an anal retentive one? 😉

Which is certainly more convenient for you than these folks who 23 years ago had anal retention challenges at the library:

> [@Bathroom Urge at the Library](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathroom-urge-at-the-library/70133):
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> OK this is a weird one. For the last few years whenever I go to a library I develop the urge to go to the bathroom. I haven taken data or anything but such factors as time of day or week and library location vary without changing the result. I can never recall “having to go” when I arrive but the urge does soon develop. What would cause this? Is it possible to develop this kind of habit (i.e. I’m so used to this happening that once I arrive I get the urge)? I suppose that a good thing would b…

  

> [@salinqmind1](#):
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> I think I’d rather implode than do a number two in any bathroom other than my own.

I’m pretty sure _im_ploding is not the risk. Rather the opposite.

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