I’ll go in a public bathroom, but not if someone else is in there. I wait until the last minute so I can get in and out as fast as possible. Of course there have been emergencies, and then you just do what you have to do. 
Yeah yeah I know , pooping is natural, still doesn’t mean I want to hear those noises or want people to hear mine, if I can avoid it.
Since I am grossed out by the sounds and smells of others, I have no desire to be grossing anyone else out. I do everything possible to avoid public defecation, but when I must I flush, cough, pause, light matches, whatever I can.
I care about the smell and whether people wonder if I’m dropping cantaloupes into the bowl, but I can’t really help it so I just let 'er fly! If they want to stick around and listen to me practice my poop blunderbuss that’s their problem.
I’m sorry guys, but this is gross.
I don’t poop in public restrooms unless it’s a medical emergency. Most public bathrooms are dirty, too cold, uncomfortable, not private enough, and dry paper is NOT a sufficient cleaning method in my opinion.
I prefer to wake up, have a cup of coffee (which I’m doing as we speak), use the bathroom, take a hot shower, and when I leave the house I’m clean and sanitary.
Chris, you actualy poop AND THEN take a shower? That’s gross, man. The poop particles that escaped the toilet paper are all lingering down there while you let the water warm up, etc.
I only poop while actually in the shower. I have a food disposal blender thing installed in my drain.
Someone, somewhere, has to use this as a sig line.
I think the cover-up cough is ridiculous. Even though my own shit smells of ambrosia, I’ll do the courtesy flush just to keep it from overwhelming the whole bathroom. I also make an effort to be as loud as possible when some douchebag is in the bathroom talking on his phone. I really want it to disturb the person on the other end so they’ll say “wait- are you in a bathroom!?!? Call me when you get out!!”
Unless you have a really smelly problem, no coverup or apologies are necessary.
I once had the person leaving a one-person stall whisper “sorry” as I was going in. A very well dressed refined woman who obviously knew she had the smelliest poop humanly possible. I could not even use the room right after her. I was afraid I would pass out and die from the gasses.
I have almost got over the public pooping phobia. Nevertheless, the situation described in the OP would weird me out a bit, because I personally know the guy responsible. I think that somehow makes it much worse than just hearing strangers crapping. For this reason, when pooping in public I will try to time my exit from a stall such that ideally, no-one is present, or if that is not possible, no-one is present who was also present when I made any pooping noises.
The issue was settled in post #3.
Jeez, folks, really? You get upset when somebody uses a bathroom as a bathroom?
At my workplace, there is a bathroom on the lower level whose use is, by popular acclaimation, reserved for particularly aromatic activity.
Just another good deed from the invisible hand.
Girls don’t poop.
I guess that’s what makes them so mean.
You all should be ashamed of yourself for even having to poop. It is a despicable activity that only the lowest perform.
I’ve heard of being pee shy, but not poop shy.
Of course they poop. It just smells like fresh-cut violets, that’s all.
At least that’s what I hear.
I try to not disturb anyone, but sometime a noise is made …
What i dislike most is hearing some idiot yammer away on a cellphone while i’m in there too. Make any noise but fucking hang up, and shut up! Say no to oversharing.
These are the times I’m encouraged to make as much noise as humanly possible; maybe throw in a few grunts and groans, flush a couple extra times. You know, to help let the person on the other end of the phone get the heartwarming message of “Hey! I’m calling you from the bathroom!”
They may well not care, I’ve heard people talking on the phone while in the toilet making very loud noises!
Unless its a dire potty emergency, I simply refuse to poop in a public restroom (the single-occupant bathrooms are just fine, though).
One of the things I most desire during defecation is quiet. I need to concentrate! And to read (something, anything, that can of Lysol will do…what are its active ingredients? Oh, alkyl…cool!)! And to be left alone to do my business!