Are runners the filthiest users of porta-potties?

This is not surprising. Letsrun is full of "I crapped my pants" stories, and runners "going" on neighborhood lawns is an annual complaint at the Boston Marathon.

Runners are nasty out in the open. It's no shock that they're disgusting inside a porta john, too.

Yes, without a doubt. It's quite a horror show in there.

It is pretty clear that runners primarily use porta-potties to crap while other events use them primarily to pee.

I was running in Athens, GA a few weeks ago, late in the evening after a noon football game. I was there for work and had to stay through the weekend, I was not there for the game. I was coming back from those trails on the north end of campus and had to crap. I saw a porta-potty in what looked like a tailgate spot near Sanford and went to the bathroom. I remember thinking that it was 100 times cleaner than anything I have ever used at a race. It didn't even smell bad and had almost all of the toilet paper. People don't shit in port-potties unless they are at a road race.

The homeless are much much filthier than runners. I've never found race toilets to be all that dirty, especially compared to the toilets near homeless camps.

I knew him back in the day wrote:

It is pretty clear that runners primarily use porta-potties to crap while other events use them primarily to pee.

That may be it. At concerts, the porta-potties are basically beer removal stations.

On the ceiling? wrote:

I knew him back in the day wrote:

It is pretty clear that runners primarily use porta-potties to crap while other events use them primarily to pee.

That may be it. At concerts, the porta-potties are basically beer removal stations.

I have never known anyone to use a porta-pottie to vomit. By that time you just let it go. No need to find a place to hurl.

I knew him back in the day wrote:

It is pretty clear that runners primarily use porta-potties to crap while other events use them primarily to pee.

These people are uncivilized savages. Anyone who craps in a porta potty, a gas station, or even at work is straight from the stone age. Deuce dropping is reserved for the the can in your home, anyone who does so elsewhere is a neanderthal.

Easy Tigress wrote:

I have never known anyone to use a porta-pottie to vomit. By that time you just let it go. No need to find a place to hurl.

I was referring to beer exiting the body in another manner.

On the ceiling? wrote:

Easy Tigress wrote:

I have never known anyone to use a porta-pottie to vomit. By that time you just let it go. No need to find a place to hurl.

I was referring to beer exiting the body in another manner.

I puked in a porta can once. The smell was overwhelming and caused me to gag. It was one with a little side urinal, and I filled it with vomit.

It was glorious.

Nope, I was raised not to be a dirt bag.

If you ever go running on a beautiful hotel strip like Vegas or Cancun, it is fun to duck to the lobby restrooms during or after a run to make a deposit. Marble floors, white towels, soothing fragrances. The whole shooting match.

Stay away from Porto Johns! You are better than that.

I'm dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder from a recent experience with a porta-potty that was clogged with a veritable plethora of human effuse.

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The homeless are much much filthier than runners. I've never found race toilets to be all that dirty, especially compared to the toilets near homeless camps.

Richmond marathon last year. Found a porta potttie tucked behind a building I figured was for construction. Obviously it was only used by homeless with shlt covering all the walls. Made the smelly ones seem really nice.

On a side note:

when you go into a dirty Porto John do you thoroughly hate other human beings? I do.

It is odd that we tolerate our own smell and filth but absolutely despise others to the point that we wish other humans did not exist.

Side note poster wrote:

On a side note:

when you go into a dirty Porto John do you thoroughly hate other human beings? I do.

It is odd that we tolerate our own smell and filth but absolutely despise others to the point that we wish other humans did not exist.

Yep. It makes me absolutely despise people. I can not conceive of how people can allow themselves to be so utterly repulsive.

Related to but not about port-a-pottys: I have found the most abused looking store restrooms are usually those at chain bookstores.

Carry on

Probably true. I think because runners tend to be high maintenance people so they try to levitate while going and it ends up shooting everywhere.

Also, they are usually in a rush because an additional 3-4 minutes before the race to do it right would miraculously take them from a PR to the worst time in their life.

I don't want this excellent thread to descend into a male vs female debate. But the only instances that I have ever seen a woman pull down her pants and squat in public to drop a deuce was at running events.

Once opened a port-potty to find excrement piled about 4 inches above the seat opening.

How do you get it that high? Do you squat above the pile?

I threw up.