# How Often Do You Go No. 2? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 9, 2013, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-go-no-2/657862 "2013-05-09T01:41:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-go-no-2/657862/21 "2013-05-09T14:29:03Z")
That’s between me and my physician. Lets just say regularly. ---
**Author:** ![diggerwam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@diggerwam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggerwam)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-go-no-2/657862/22 "2013-05-09T15:23:21Z")
About half the time I use the facilities. Numerous times a day. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-go-no-2/657862/23 "2013-05-09T15:42:44Z")
> [@shiftless](#): > > I have a No. 2 right here my desk. Eww. I really don’t wanna know what you do for a living. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-go-no-2/657862/24 "2013-05-10T14:07:13Z")
I’ve never kept score; when it happens, it happens. This is a very strange question raised by the OP. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-go-no-2/657862/25 "2013-05-10T14:12:00Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I take a shit about as often as I give a shit. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I don’t take a shit-I _leave_ a shit. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-go-no-2/657862/26 "2013-05-10T14:44:22Z")
::shifty eyes:: Why do you want to know? ---
**Author:** ![Furious\_Marmot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-go-no-2/657862/27 "2013-05-10T20:22:30Z")
I shit at 5 AM, daily. Problem is, I don’t wake up until 5:30. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-go-no-2/657862/28 "2013-05-10T20:30:03Z")
A lot more than once a day. Maybe five times on a typcial day. I’ve had digestive issues all my life. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-go-no-2/657862/29 "2013-05-10T21:18:02Z")
A little less than once a day. It’s almost always in the morning and it’s almost every day but about once a week my bowels seem to take the day off for whatever reason. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-go-no-2/657862/30 "2013-05-10T21:21:33Z")
> [@shiftless](#): > > I have a No. 2 right here my desk. Who does No. 2 work for?! ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-go-no-2/657862/31 "2013-05-10T21:27:00Z")
It tends to vary with me. If I have to go #2 at work or school, I go very quickly, and often not all of it gets out, so I “finish” it later on in the day at home. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-go-no-2/657862/32 "2013-05-10T21:33:48Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > It tends to vary with me. > > If I have to go #2 at work or school, I go very quickly, and often not all of it gets out, so I “finish” it later on in the day at home. I feel like I know you a lil better now. ---
**Author:** ![Furious\_Marmot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-go-no-2/657862/33 "2013-05-10T22:01:19Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > Who does No. 2 work for?! Show that turd who’s Boss! ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-go-no-2/657862/34 "2013-05-11T12:45:37Z")
Incidentally, why is #2 called a bowel movement, but #1 isn’t called a bladder movement? (Didn’t know whether this was quite on-topic. Am I threadshitting? 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-go-no-2/657862/35 "2013-05-11T16:57:09Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Incidentally, why is #2 called a bowel movement, but #1 isn’t called a bladder movement? > > (Didn’t know whether this was quite on-topic. Am I threadshitting? 😉 ) Void your bowels and move your bladder? Past Sheldon: _This is the bathroom. Are you fairly regular?_ Past Leonard: _Uh, I guess._ Past Sheldon: _This isn’t going to work if you’re guessing. When do you evacuate your bowels?_ Past Leonard: _When I have to._ Past Sheldon: _When you have to? I’m sorry, I don’t rent to hippies._ ---
**Author:** ![chewsick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@chewsick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chewsick)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-go-no-2/657862/36 "2013-05-11T22:45:29Z")
That’s a good one – I’ve grown to love that show more and more. Yes, once a day, about 6 hours after eating either pasta or white bread, or about 10-11 hours after eating rice or whole-grain foods. Five or six times in quick succession when having eaten split peas (but not other beans, including lentils, which have similar fiber content, for some reason). Yes, there have been accidents. I use split peas in very controlled circumstances. I don’t agree that eating quick fast food leads universally, as implied above, to constipation (which I define as 24+ hours between bowel evacuations) – habituation to whole-grain foods and foods higher in fiber means, for me, that the route to the bathroom is shortened and made more urgent on consumption of those “other” victuals. And made more unpleasant and especially more odiferous. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-go-no-2/657862.md?page=1)