I am on a quest to use nothing but a diaper. Ever again. This means sometimes accidents happen in public. However, anyone who is REALLY into developing incontinence knows the pooping doesn't just happen willy nilly. If you have a healthy high fiber diet, you can pretty much predict, with reasonable accuracy, when a mess will occur. Especially if you are no longer holding it in at all, a mess will normally, for me at least, occur two to three hours after a meal. So if I am out with friends, I make sure the meal is the last thing we do, not the first, allowing me to slip out and get to my car at the two hour mark, and head home. Or I know to shop before lunch, or wait until my afternoon mess before heading out. If you really want to be 100% incontinent, you need to know your body, and make good choices, just out of consideration of others. I have only had mess accidents in bad places twice, and both times it was because I ate McDonalds food and things got a little slick.