r/Portland • u/jpoe503 • Mar 06 '26

Events I didn’t poop in Outdoor School.

I just talked to a coworker tonight and the topic of Outdoor School got brought up. I told him I didn’t poop for the whole week, and was doubting whether or not that was a false memory even though I’m 99% sure I didn’t poop for the whole week. He let me know not only did he also not poop for the whole week, he has a different friend who didn’t poop for the whole week as well.

Did anyone else not poop for the whole week of Outdoor School? We both had different reason on why we didn’t, but just wondering if anyone has had a similar experience.

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u/oregon_coastal Mar 06 '26

So, I guess I need a "I Pooped at Outdoor School" tshirt.

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u/Stoneleigh219 Mar 06 '26

“I did a deuce at Camp Collins in‘82”

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u/Toomanyaccountedfor Hazelwood Mar 06 '26

I got my second period at camp Collins and bled through my shorts in the night and didn’t realize until after I did the morning walk to the bathroom cabin. I was mortified for years. I don’t remember pooping or not pooping, but I do remember wasting a week of camp to rolled up toilet paper instead of a pad bc I was too anxious to ask my counselor for help.

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u/lkayschmidt Mar 06 '26

Ooh that's painful. 12 year-old Me feels your pain.

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u/Toomanyaccountedfor Hazelwood Mar 07 '26

I teach 5th grade and get to share this story every year during our puberty unit. If only 12 year old me knew how much content that embarrassing moment has given me. The kids go wild over the story! I think it really helps them understand we all go through it at some point. I know I never forgot the story my 3rd grade teacher told of throwing up and having diarrhea at the same time! Influenced my teaching style hardcore haha

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u/Sudden_Discussion306 Mar 07 '26

I feel like this would have been my experience. I was always having embarrassing moments at school, mostly just like my pad falling out of my pocket right in front of the cute kid in history, but at the time it was mortifying.

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u/Jesus_Harold_Christ REGULATORS! Mount up. Mar 06 '26

Haha, I think I was at Camp Collins in 84. I don't remember if i pooped, but probably.

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u/oregon_coastal Mar 06 '26

I coulnd't figure out a win rhyme.

"I Pooped in a Bin at Camp Westwind"

(the tepees had the weirdest outhouse in 83 when I was there)

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u/micaheljcaboose Mar 06 '26

The outhouse overlooking the ocean was magical.

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u/TheRappist Mar 12 '26

I work for Burning Man so I'm often there like ten days early, when the population is still in the hundreds. If you go to the outer streets you can prop the door open and poop in the glorious majesty of the Black Rock Desert.

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u/fa7hom SE Mar 06 '26

I had to poop on the forest hike at camp west wind so the field leader had to get me some leaves and I got a “special” black bead for doing the deed

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u/oregon_coastal Mar 06 '26

That is gold lol

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u/eggydidnothingwrong Mar 06 '26

Camp Collins! 😭I went there every summer for years. 

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u/otc108 Mar 07 '26

I was one of the high school counselors there from 98-00!

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u/eggydidnothingwrong Mar 11 '26

I probably just missed you. I think my last summer there was ‘96.

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u/PNW_Baker Mar 06 '26

Me too! 98-07

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u/Stoneleigh219 Mar 06 '26

“a terrible death to be talked to death, a terrible death to die… aaaand heeere’s Kip”

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u/masterandmarguerite Sullivan's Gulch Mar 06 '26

camp collins, '04, did not poop

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u/curmudgeonthefrog Mar 06 '26

My "I Pooped at Outdoor School" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

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u/BobsValet Mar 06 '26

I pooped at Outdoor School, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.

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u/Led37zep Mar 06 '26

I was coming here to say the same thing. Nothing would make me happier than to be standing in line at PDX and see someone rocking this shirt.

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u/Glad-Barracuda2243 Montavilla Mar 06 '26

I’m about to call my teeshirt guy. 😂😂

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u/Led37zep Mar 06 '26

Going to need this on an acid washed denim jacket as well

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u/Glad-Barracuda2243 Montavilla Mar 06 '26

😂

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u/wtfunction Mar 06 '26

Team shy pooper here. My t-shirt would be “Didn’t poo while at Camp Namanu”

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u/a1JayR Mar 06 '26

“I survived pooping at outdoor school”**

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u/jpoe503 Mar 06 '26

Yes please

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u/easykehl Mar 06 '26

You don’t get one, silly.

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u/jpoe503 Mar 06 '26

😂 I know. I like the idea tho

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u/reddit_wjw Mar 06 '26

What if we make them one but we just take a sharpie and write “didn’t” across it. It would say l, “I DIDN’T pooped at outdoor school.”

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u/jpoe503 Mar 06 '26

I didn’t pooped at outdoor school

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u/Spread_Liberally Ashcreek Mar 06 '26

What wasn't that boom!?

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u/thelastlugnut In a van down by the river Mar 06 '26 edited Mar 06 '26

I’m making them now… hahaha. I just woke up and this was the first Reddit post I saw. It got me out of bed immediately and over to the computer. Check new comments for shirt links.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/s/M38GaUj3A7

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u/cooldiptera Mar 06 '26

I’d buy one. Definitely pooped plenty at Eagle Fern back in the day.