Have you ever had to struggle to prevent a bowel movement during the night because you didn't want to go to the toilet and wake someone up with bathroom sounds? It happened to me last night. Woke up two AM with an overwhelming urge to go do the doo. But the toilet is right next to the spare bedroom -- only a thin partition divides the two. And my mother is staying with us, sleeping in the spare bedroom. Which made me all the more anxious not to wake her up, considering the way she takes an excessive interest in my bowel movements. Like a parody of my childhood self, I spent about an hour wide awake, straining NOT to do a dooey. I've yet to see what the aftereffects will be.