Great question, Mike. I'm fairly lucky, in that I'm a "morning guy". My routine is to do my doody within the first hour or so that I'm out of bed: say, between 6 and 7AM. After that I'm good for the day (unless some unusual condition is at work). So...to answer your question: as long as I could complete my morning rounds successfully, I wouldn't have any time limit for a bus/plane trip. The need to drain the ol' bladder would be a more pressing concern.

My limit would be two hours, especially on a plane. Knowing that there was no toilet on it, I would have the urge to go, like when people get the urge in a bookstore or library. Mike could try a colon cleanse before a very long bus/flight if no toilet would be available.

My limit would be 3.
Producing waste since 1967

Excellent question! That could've been a poll. (*taps chin thoughtfully*)

If I knew I was going to have to wait a while, I'd probably try to make sure I was as empty as possible, beforehand.

That being said, I think I would be game for, say, 8 hours. I think I could do it.

Very interesting question.
I wouldn't know, i'd just have to hope i didn't have to go.

Sometimes i can go twice in one day, other times i can go about 3 days without visiting the crapper for a sit down sesion!

I'm with Fudgepump here - and Mike A's wife - 24 hours and more would be fine for a #2 - but the pressing need is to pee!! I drink a lot and need to pee minimum every two hours!

I could only make until the guys with the rubber aprons and gloves opened the cage.

more than 48 hours

Good discussion. In my younger years, I could've said 24 hours, but nowdays I have lost most of my clenchability. I don't like to be more than four hours from toilet facilities.

Having said that, I have the ability to drop trou anytime, anywhere. If they put me on a plane for nine hours with no shitter, it wouldn't bother me to bust a loaf in the isle if the only other option was shitting my pants or dying of an ingrown turd.

See, this is an example of how much I take for granted the convenience of American society: I wouldn't even stop to consider it. After all, anyplace I go, I have access to a bathroom with a little searching. Airplanes. Buses. When I'm driving, there are always Rest Areas and fast food restaurants. Heck, even when I'm walking, there's usually someplace along the way.
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Yo quiero Taco Bell.

This is assuming that I can't just drop a deuce in a fellow traveler's lap, right?? I could probably go 12 hours....maybe more if an extra cat is handy.

Who let that monkey "shitsling" out of his cage?
Producing waste since 1967

I have to go along with GGG. I think if I was as empty as possible beforehand I may be able to go twelve hours without dropping a dookie. But let me just say I still would have to pee of course being a man the world is our urinal. But as far as crapping goes I am afraid even twelve hours is pushing it. I also believe diet during this time is also important. NO coffee beverages of any kind. NO bean or bean products of any kind. NO meatballs or anything with heavy dookie inducing sauces. I think with water and maybe very light eating I could pull it off.
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The Thunderous Crapper 63 Enjoying home toilet advantage since 2004!

As long as the plane could fly because I would never shit in an airplane crapper.

i would say 12 hours because if its an emergency u gotta have a bathroom but if u've got an active bowel 2 hours is a good answer just in case
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i have met many people that talk like asses but i have not met many asses that talk like people

If I control my eating and drinking quite awhile, but knowing that no toilet was available might cause toilet separation anxiety to kick in which would make me uncomfortable. I avoid these situations.

Dung Daddy "dying of an ingrown turd".. i love it! I bout spit out my watermelon when I read that. lol

Maybe looking at a picture of the bare bones of a plane toilet might put you off using it - anyone thought of installing one at home? Look at the one on this site, under products, lavatory. Scary beast.

www.rogersonaircraftequipmentgroup.com

Since I once was a shameful shitter, I have my bowels trained to hold it for up to 32 hours. I'd probably do well for about 15 hours, but then i'd get uncomfortable, and need the security of knowing that a toilet is avaliable. If others are like I was, I'm guessing that anyone who is shameful should be able to hold it for longer than a shameless shitter.

TE - yes, you are right! I developed my 'holding' ability when I was totally shameful. I don't use it as much now I'm converted, but it can come in useful.

So, Hamster: your "Nightmare" cure is holding??
That's great to hear. Welcome to Shamelessness. Maybe there really IS something to be said for "forced encounter" therapy.

The whole problem for me is this: if I KNOW there's no bathroom, I'm gonna hafta go. Period. Doesn't matter if I went before I got on the ride, doesn't matter if I haven't eaten in 4 days...I'll have the urge to shit because I know I can't.

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No no, honey. Kitties don't sit on the potty.

And not only that, you will start your period 20 seconds after boarding the plane. I swear.

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OMG. I didn't even THINK of that! Jeez. You're right. Yuck.

I am so paranoid about pooping my pants on a public vehicle that I don't eat for hours before I go on a long trip.

Daph wrote: daphne (2223) -- 08.09.2007

And not only that, you will start your period 20 seconds after boarding the plane. I swear."

Happens to me EVERY GOD DAMN TIME!!!

This is an interesting question. Last month, we took a four day jaunt to visit Gomez's family in California. Now, last time this happened we stayed in his dead granny's house, in the master bedroom which has an ensuite bathroom, so I wasn't too worried as I normally would have been. I emptied out around 1 pm on a Wednesday, right before we left.

En route to the airport, we find out that we will be staying in his brother's spare bedroom which does not have an ensuite bathroom, and which, moreover, is shared with his 3 children.. Now I had already had Quizno's on the way there, and I ate normally while we were there, and I managed to hold it from 1 pm Wednesday to Saturday night.. it got pretty uncomfortable Thursday night but I toughed it out and the urge just went away.

Saturday night we stayed in a 4-star hotel, where, just before bed (around 1 am) I excused myself to "get a band-aid" for my finger which had been bleeding on and off all weekend, and I went to the totally deserted bathroom in the lobby, plopped myself in the handicapped stall (where I had a bust of Pliny to admire while crapping) and tried to let loose. My main concern here was that we were sharing a room with Gomez's mother, talk about a nightmare situation for sleep farting. But I didn't get the avalanche I expected.. just a few hard, round gobbets of poo. I tried to get the rest out but nothing would come. I gave up and went back upstairs, applying a band-aid I'd had in my purse the whole time on the way. I was incredibly relieved that I did not make a snap, crackle or pop the whole time, although Gomez's mother, who I think is shameful, DID!! I'd bet she probably needed to go before bed but you could hear everything that happened in the bathroom all over the room so that was a no go for her.

Anyway, we got back around noon Sunday and Gomez went to bed immediately to rest up for work that night, while I, having already decided to call in, unloaded my bowels repeatedly over the next 12 hours. So I did not embarass myself shitting in his brother's bathroom.. although poor Gomez, not having the Iron Sphincter that comes with total shamefulness (he's sort of in between) was humiliated several times during this little vacation, poor man!

I travel a lot and whenever I do, my system goes into hibernation. Usually the day of the flight is a non-movement day. The following day is dependant on how 'relaxed' I am. Short trips with back to back flights are really bad. It is one of the things about travel that suck.

PZ!! I'm really worried about you! You'll do yourself some harm by holding it in like this!! I read your story on the site recently too - it seems you haven't changed in the last year! I guess you are an attractive woman and conscious of your image - good!! But you are allowed to shit - particularly when away for a few days!! Whenever I have someone to stay, I expect they will shit at some stage!! I just don't see it as embarrassment or humiliation. Certainly most of us men wouldn't think a woman any less attractive or less feminine because she shits!! Please just find some way to do it! And if someone knows - so what? What are they going to think or say, 'she's just had a shit!' - big deal, don't we all!!

heehee, Hamster! the horror! i cannot imagine what would happen if someone said "she's just had a shit" - probably i would melt into the floor!

actually i have changed a bit. i no longer run the shower while shitting but have eased up on the diet pills which allows me to take regular, healther, and more importantly, QUIETER shits. a few times i have managed even to go in the bathroom nonchalantly when Gomez is busy playing guitar or on the computer and stay in there for longer than it takes to pee, without covering it up by saying i'm going to shower or shave my legs, so that if he thought about it he would realize what i'm doing in there, because i can safely assume that like other males he can only focus on one thing at a time, i.e., his video game which he takes very seriously, so that i could probably have splattery loud diarrhea and he would be too busy sniping and shouting "MEDIC!!" into his microphone to even take notice. that's progress, wouldn't you say?

Very definitely progress, PZ, very definitely!!! Any easing up on those nasty pills of yours is brilliant!!

But if you were my girlfriend, I'd be just a little put out that you didn't feel sufficiently at ease with me, if not to shit in my presence, at least to be able to say you were going for one! After all, you come on here telling us all about your poop experiences (and please continue) - but you might even enjoy swapping poop experiences with Gomez - who knows?

Believe it or not, I used to be embarrassed too about going for a shit when other people were around - like you say, they could tell from the time taken that I hadn't just had a pee, couldn't they! But actually, do they notice? And do they care really? It just doesn't bother me at all now. You are getting there!!!

But I'm not going to challenge your assertion about us men focussing on only one thing at a time though - because I know you are right!!

I think if I knew about not being able to poo ahead of time and could plan my diet accordingly, I could stretch as far as 3 days. I remember combat patrols we performed in the Marine Corps usually required holding it in for extended periods of time. Having to squirt would be the problem. You have to drink water, and water makes you squirt. But if you don't eat anything or eat the right things that your body burns up almost completely, then there's no waste to come out.

Stainer - you are right. And I think bursting for a pee is far worse than bursting for a poop. I can hold the latter in - but the pee has to come!!!

PZ - I agree and want to add that on a plane, there are times when both genders are capable of focusing on only one thing. Would not an unlucky person on a return flight from Mexico be horrified of a thirty-minute takeoff sequence?

I met one such sot who had been there, greivously describing his plane ride as "startling" and "memorable." His report was delivered with the same robotic tone that I've heard from veterans when they describe some horror of war that they were involved in. He claims to have remained in the restroom throughout the landing, even though I thought that was an FAA no-no.

Supposedly, they landed the plane with him obstinately locked in that dreadful restroom. Every time they knocked and threatened him, he replied, "I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing in here, get this plane on the ground and I'll go do it somewhere else!"

I travel quite a bit, and I usually pop immodium whether I need it or not when I am setting out on a long drive (longer than 3 hours) or flying anywhere. I will even do it when I am going to be in an all day meeting with lots of people.

I also plan my diet for a day or so before a trip, to lessen the chance of an inconvienient shit. No pizza and beer the night before the flight!

well, for one, what the hell is a shameful shitter? it's a natural bodily function

I'd say maybe 24 hours or so I could hold off, but after that i'd just let it rip, so to speak

Mike, I fly a lot and have yet to be in a plane where a toilet was not available for a #2. What were you planning to take, an F16?

carpet poop bombs? shock and awe turd attacks? the mind boggles!

Or in my case, crop dusting.

Add to the list of under-equipped transpo modes: rock band tour buses. Only AFTER I dropped my load, was I sternly informed that #2 is strictly prohibited on a tour bus. Just a heads up for any aspiring groupies out there...
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"Piece out!"