Your ass hates you.

It makes me think of how I get muscle tension when I am angry or nervous...
I suppose the tension could spread to the anus, sealing it shut.

Odd...some psychological phenomenon. First post rules.

Tama, the psychosomatic aspects of your situation are real. Your mind is giving your body certain messages based on years of behaviorial programming. All those years you were basically a Shameful Shitter can't be erased overnight. What has changed in the equation is your desire to shit with ease under these circumstances, but your system hasn't caught up with your desire yet.

Give it some time. Continue to do what you're doing and don't stress out too much if your ass seems to have a mind of its own. I truly believe that it does, and I believe there was a very interesting article posted or referenced on this site last year about the lower gut being the 'second brain.' Perhaps someone with greater archival skills than myself can retrieve that and type it in for you.

Pleasant pooping to you, man.

TBW: The book you're referring to is "The Second Brain" by Dr. Michael Gershon. He says basically that the stomach has so many nerves and what not that it should be considered a nervous center of the body. As luck would have it, I just started reading it yesterday. After two pages, I can say that it's definetly a book.

PooperScooper wrote about it here: http://www.poopreport.com/blog/b2poop.php?p=755

Is it relevant to this story? Possibly. I'll let you know when I finish it.

It's probably the same as not being able to piss if you're standing next to someone.

I overcame shameful peeing by just thinking of something warm when trying. Maybe thinking of something warm while pooping can help?

Skum, I think you are right.
Tama, I would also agree with TBW, but I prefer to think of this phenomena as muscle memory. I'm sure it's the same thing, though.
When I hurt my arm playing ball about ten years ago to this very month in Ft. Polk, I had to learn how to throw overhand for the first time at the age of 25. It was not hard to do when I was concentrating, but it took until 1998 to get to the point where I would be in a game situation and throw overhand without thinking about it. Honest. I'd been a side-armed thrower or three quarter thrower all my life. It took my subconcious three years to reprogram the instinctive throwing reactions I grew up with.

But, you hang in there. You will overcome your bowels to be the master once again. I do have a question, though. Do you normally push? It's not possible that straining while the other person was in the stall caused your body to lock up, is it, like asking a kid to do something is easier than demanding the kid do it? (Recalcitrant behavior)
Either way, keep on doo-ing what you are doo-ing. The Poopreport Force is with you.

By the way, Uncle Chunk, how's your stomache? Are you still doing the bathroom dash?

I'm convinced that part of Shameful Shitting arises from evolution. If we were living in the jungle, I would choose to attack my enemy when he's taking his shit, because that's when he's most helpless. So I believe that humans instinctually feel vulnerable when they're pissing/shitting. Thus, we have trouble pissing next to someone in the urinal line, and we have trouble pooing around other people. Because we're subconsciously concerned about being attacked.

Man, Dave, that's deep.

I wonder if that's why my cats always try to attack each other as they're exiting the litter box.

Ryan Seacrest told me about the site so i said, "What the hell!"
I really didn't enjoy your story, it was quite pointless, and quite boring (w/the accent)
It needed enthusiasm, and the entire time, you were talking about holding in your shit as someone entered the bathroom when it has 12 stalls!
Everyone shits in a public bathroom once in a while, whats so special about your encounter/experience? Huh?
Whatever, I don't need this!
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Dave, I have to disagree... When people lived in the jungle before language was used, there was no sense of disgust, which means that somebody shitting will probably stand up and throw his shit at you, seeing at the person isn't disgusted by it...

TMP -- you missed my point. We weren't shameful in the jungle, we were vulnerable to attack. And so our modern instinct is to shit only when no one else is around so no one willget us. That, combined with many other social factors, of course, creates Shameful Shitting.

I have to agree with Dave on this one. I figure the phrase "got caught with his pants down" is actually derived from the much older phrase "got caught with his ass spread near the ground." This phrase was mostly likely penned after some poor Sumerian soldier got speared when he was too busy taking a crap to notice the chariots approaching...

i think you are right Dave, even getting into pooping position makes me feel vulnerable. No-one likes to be caught out with their pants round their ankles....lol.
people are so different. There are those that announce what they are about to do, taking 3 editions of the sunday paper and a mug of tea in with them, for that truly relaxing experience! and those who sneak in, poo and are out again in a flash. Perhaps this story is the battle for the middle line?

I guess I agree... But even so... Back then, if you throw a club at me while I'm shitting, there was no shame.. There's a chance I was just fight you and relieve myself during the battle...

Back when I did a stint in prison, we would often attack while someone was shitting, pissing or showering. There's deffinately a certain vulnerability when nekkid. I would always shiv-shank one of my bitches while they were "pooping". This would also send a message out that I was in charge.
On a lighter note, dogs always look super guilty and paranoid whilst shitting. Could be the vulnerability shining through, or, they just don't want to get stabbed.

18th post rules!

Back then???I would do it now as well!!! Who would want to fuck with someone who has a full ARSEanal of feces to fling at them. I would definitely avoid someone with a handful of dookie. I think I have a new character to sell to PS2: the philosopher Who Flung Dung.

I agree with Dave and Captain Morgan, I did alittle time when I was a kid and I couldn't crap or wiz in frount of anyone that's when they nail you sometimes I didn't go for days, now that I'm old and ugly I feel comfortable taking a squat on the street who wants to shitty, shitty, bang, bang a 6'6 350lb 50 year old guy,? yea will let me know.

i dont understand why anyone would attack you for taking a shit... but yeah, its a possibility, isnt it? lol

I just let it rip when I'm in a public john. Let the guy in the next stall be embarrassed!

And oh, yeah, really nuke him out. Don't flush till you're all through with your business!

I think Dave's comment has relevency here. When I was in high school anytime my best friend and I were in the bathroom together we would always try to stop the other from pissing/shitting. It was horrible. We'd knock on the stall doors and push each other's backs while at urinals. To this day when I'm at a urinal I still get nervous! So I know how you feel, man.