I used to be more uptight about the whole thing but now I’ll go at work if nature calls.
BTW, it helps everyone do their thing when there is a great deal of noise in the background. I think the lines would move a lot quicker in the women’s room if they would just keep the hand dryer going…I don’t want to urinate, defacate OR change a tampon when everyone can hear the sounds associated with it.
…I don’t know about everyone else, but I use only 2 squares for a normal (non-catastrophic) job. What is the average square usage for most people? Is one square=one serving, or do most people use 2 or 3? (at three shall you stop; to four you shall not go, five is right out of the question…)
I will avoid using the facilities at work if at all possible, if for no other reason than it’s just so much more comfortable doing it a home. There, I can read a book, do a crossword, play with my kitties (who are fascinated with any activity taking place in the bathroom).
Since I only go about every other day, I don’t have a lot of poops to waste at work! So it’s “only in emergencies” for me.
And add another buncher to the list.
I use anywhere from 2 to 4 squares on a regular outting. If it’s an unusually, um, “bad” day, then I kick it up to 5 or 6. Any more than that and you don’t get enough in there to do the job. Sometimes I fold and reuse (making sure to fold completely in half.) And I always wash my hands afterward.
And to Oreo,
I read while on the throne at work, usually it’s work related, but sometimes I read printouts of the Straightdope online! I do not read the newspaper in there. It’s too cliche’. You only go ever other day? I go at least once a day.
I’m with FCM here - tho I try to keep things as soundless as possible. I’m pretty fast in there - I save the reading for at home.
BTW - am I the only one who wrapp here (Wrap the TP around your hand several times, then slide it off)? Not quite as anal as folding - but “safer” than crinkling, IMHO.
To answer Arwen’s question - at least 3-4 sheets for #1 - half-dozen or more for #2, plus multiple sweeps if necessary.
To answer **Arwen’s ** question… I use 4 squares for #1 and 6 or more for #2. I hate to hear poop plopping in the toilet at work so if I’m not alone in there I’ll fold up 6 or more squares and kind of “catch” the poop and let it fall gently into the water. Works pretty well.
I always wash my hands too!
Of course I’ll defecate in the bathroom at work, sheesh. I’ll do it in the mall bathroom, too, if I have to.
Since we’re talking about defecating and privacy, I just want to add that at Basic Training when we were in the field we had a four-seater, so you and your three closest friends could sit and eliminate at the same time. Also, the wall you were facing as you were sitting was 1/2 chicken wire, so about anybody who wanted to could watch you all sitting there. And it’s not like you could sneak off and go whenever you wanted to and have a little privacy.
We also usually had about a five minute break for forty women to use the bathroom, whichever kind of facility it might have been. Sometimes it was one, single porta potty. So we all took off our gear and unbuttoned our pants and untucked our shirts while we were outside the stall/porta potty/whatever, and retucked, rebuttoned, and re-geared after exiting the stall, so the next person could go in as fast as possible.
Lines in public bathrooms would go so much faster if women in general would take up this habit, but of course they won’t. Even I can’t do it, 'cause everyone would look at me funny. But wouldn’t it make so much more sense!!
Gee, I don’t take a dump anywhere unless I actually have to. It’s not exactly a recreational activity that I plan for. If I’m at work when nature calls, then I use the bathroom there. If I’m home, then I use the bathroom there. What a novel concept.
And yeah, I crinkle.
Me too. If I have to poo, I poo–no biggie. And I crinkle.
Y’know, it occurs to me that so many women complain about constipation. I’ve never had this problem. Maybe it’s because women are more likely to hold it in.
I have no problem pooping in whatever situation that pooping is called for. Women’s disdain for public bathrooms always wierds me out- if you gotta go you gotta go. Seems to me that that the elaborate bathroom rituals that women subject themselves to only makes lines longer for us women who arn’t quite so squeemish.
I mean, yeah, it’s dirty. But lots of things in the world are dirty. You don’t think our cave-woman ancestors wandered around spashing bleach all over everything, do you?
Nope, you’re not. That’s the way I do it too, but once it’s slid off the hand it gets folded in half lengthwise.
I’ll use the one-stall room for whatever needs to be done, but will limit myself to peeing if there’s more than one stall. Unless there’s an emergency, then all rules go out the window.
Incidentally, at one of my offices the restroom door is about 10 feet from my desk. I know WAAAYYYY too much about my cow-orkers.
-BK
Never had a problem taking a dump if I need to, whether at work, or just using a public multi-stall toilet. Can get a bit gross hearing the noises from next door, though.
For the shy poopers – were you like that in school? Or did your schools have seperate rooms for the bog?
Oh, and I wad, rather than crinkle. Folding takes too much time.
EVER USE THE OTHER RESTROOM?
If you gotta, you gotta. 
It takes so long in the ladies’ room because you must half disrobe to do either #1 or #2. Pantyhose-slips-undies 
Guys can just whip it out, step up to the urinal and go, shake, zip, and off they sail.
I know because on a Ladies’ Nights in the 1988, me and two other brave women decided that the guys are using the urinals(3) and the stalls(3) were most likely available. (The line for our assigned restroom was incredible-forty deep and only 2 stalls! Yes, a man designed that nightclub.) We just went in, shouted, “Just keep doing what you’re doing-don’t turn around. We taking over the stalls!” Scared the guys in there, let me tell you. Of course, we just had to pee. If I had to do the other I would have just gone home and called it an early evening.
And on the original question-it is a room off the “lounge” so you can and I know my co-workers do. But I need to get some more air freshner or something cause crap and Osium (ozone) spray is truly the nastiest scent combo-it must be what hell smells like on a good day. And I wad-which is probably what you mean by crinkle. And to be completely honest -#1 gets 3 squares and #2 gets a medium wad which gets folded and used as many times as possible minding at all times hand coverage and effectiveness.
Wad? What is wading? That doesn’t sound as safe as folding. So far it sounds like my initial assertion was incorrect (that being women do in fact use the potty to go #2 at work) but my secondary hypothesis was correct (women crinkle instead of fold.) My wife showed me a “prepped” crinkled ball of TP and I couldn’t believe how much TP she used. I think that women use much more TP than me for number 2. Women in general use more TP, but that’s because you all use it twice as often as men. As my wife said on Friday evening, “Women use toilet paper twice as often as men, as such they are twice as experienced and therefore it can be assumed that they use a much more efficient methodology when wiping.” This may be true, I hadn’t thought of it that way…
As for the wrapping, I count that as a fold. The TP is still flat when it makes it’s final approach. It’s a speedy fold, but a fold nonetheless.
Not since I lost my job.
No point in going 10 miles to have a shit when I have a perfectly good bathroom right here at home.
I never used the bathroom at school. From preschool on, I went before I left in the morning and went first thing when I got home. In elementary they had mandatory bathroom breaks, where the whole class would line up and be taken at once… I’d just use that opportunity to wash my hands.
I have very impressive bladder control. Just ask the BamaDopers. 
-BK
I hate crapping at work.
Pooping for me is my sacred time. I read and just sit there and relax. Theres no time for that at work. If I’m at a public restroom, I opt to wait. I don’t like the idea of pooping while other people are around.
And this might be weird, but this rule goes for other peoples houses. I don’t like pooping in other peoples houses. I’ll go if its absolutely necessary,but I won’t like it.
oh yeah, I fold too.
It’s not weird, in fact, although I am an avid work crapper, I refuse to deficate in a friends house. It’s almost a disservice to them. And the horror of the possibility of overflowing the toilet at a friends house prevents me from even thinking about using their crapper even in the worst/most painful situations.
Arachnid… are you male or female?
::checks genitalia::
I am woman
I also have no problem pooping at work if I have to. If I don’t, my stomach will hurt and I’ll have almost uncontrollable farts. Holding your poop is a good way to get constipated…being constipated leads to straining at the toilet… and straining is an excellent way to get hemorrhoids (which I do NOT want, of course).
I worked with another nurse who said she would absolutely NOT use a public or work restroom to take a dump unless (and I quote) “it was crowning”. LOLOL. I personally do not want to get to the point where I have to worry about skid marks on my undies.