I started writing this as a comment on the poll "
Do you poop in front of your significant other?" but it became so long I thought I'd submit it as a story.
I voted: "I would, but my poop smells too bad."
My shite absolutely reeks. So much so that I wouldn't wish to inflict it on anyone. I eat meat and a lot of vegetables, and I enjoy a good glass or six of fine wine and the very occasional beer. I very seldom take a foray into the hoppy brews is because I can't seem to tolerate yeast -- it gives rise to some rancid rip-roarers and gag-inducing grogans. I also enjoy a good, long run most evenings, which helps to shake things down a bit. With the odd variation, my dietary and exercise habits have stayed pretty constant over the past four or five years, during which I have been in a few relationships.
Now married, I can expect my wife to walk into the bathroom when I've just been for a movement, and I often walk into the bathroom after she's been. We keep a pretty Shameless house. Indeed, if you've read my first poop report, you'll know that on the day after we first met, I blocked her toilet. Not all women I've known in the past have been such good sports about bodily functions, though.
A few years ago, at university, I had a girlfriend who wouldn't let me have a dump in her en suite bathroom. In retrospect, it was an early sign of her controlling ways that should have caused me to ditch her then and there, but I was stupid. After a while, as I spent more and more time at her place, she became more Shameless; and after a couple of months, she relented and let me use her bog one morning when I needed to lay a beer-fuelled, kebab-laden monster cable.
I went in, put on the extractor fan (there was no window), and got to work. It was such a relief to get rid of this fudgy-yet-slightly-watery load, peppered with chili seeds.
After I'd been in there about three minutes, reading a magazine and waiting for more logs to propel themselves through my slightly stinging (but now very relaxed) anus, she wanted to ask me something. I sniffed so I could gauge just how bad the smell was. It was absolutely putrid. Christ, I have driven through countryside replete with freshly-manured fields in summer many times, and this was probably worse. There was nothing I could spray to mask the smell, either -- unlike a lot of women (my wife being a prime example), she didn't have dozens of bottles of body spray lying around in wicker baskets.
"Erm," I said, "I wouldn't come in here if I were you!"
I was still dropping pellets of digested chicken tikka mixed with naan bread and producing resonant farts similar in timbre to Jaco Pastorius's Fender Jazz Bass.
"It's OK," my lass said, clearly more Shameless than I gave her credit for. "I can handle it!" And she walked in.
As she entered, her countenance immediately altered from one of lighthearted, laughter-driven smiles to one that, if witnessed by anyone else in her bedroom at the time, would have led them to think that she'd walked in on me wanking myself senseless whilst wearing a gimp mask. She started to gag and cough. She shut the door and then continued to cough and retch for a good couple of minutes, during which I laughed uproariously.
When I'd wiped, flushed (several times), and washed my hands, I went back into her bedroom, still laughing.
All I could say was, "I did tell you!"
After that incident, she forbade me to use her toilet unless I needed to have a pee.
"But that's ridiculous!" I protested. "If I need to drop a load, where can I go? Should I hang my arse out of the window and curl one off on to the shrubbery?"
She mentioned that the guy who lived in the room a couple of doors down wouldn't mind if I used his toilet. No way, I thought -- that guy was a dick.
Fortunately, we broke up a few weeks after that. I had learned a valuable lesson: I need to feel comfortable having bowel movements in the same environment as my significant other. In every subsequent relationship, I would make a mental note of the lady's thoughts on the elimination of waste.
I would urge anyone who is starting a relationship to assess their new partner's views on bathroom matters. Those who find bodily functions disgusting to the extent that they don't let you use their toilet should be treated with extreme caution. If they can't take your shit, then don't take any from them!