From Eddy: "As it happened, we crossed paths, and he looked at me very strangely - I guess the smell was strong enough. "
You have to be very careful when you load your pants / diapers around others. Over time you tend to get used to the smell but other people seem to notice it immediately! I gotten very careless and remiss about this over the years. My wife knows I like to do it; I generally avoid her and stay in the other end of the house when she's at home and I want to load my diapers, but usually I'll tell her "I'm going to go upstairs and be a naughty toddler for a while" and she knows what I'm doing. So I got to the point of doing it as I pleased and not really thinking about it.
Bad mistake! One day I was "in the mood" and felt a big one coming on. To lessen the clean up I put on a pair of white men's "bikini" jockey shorts and a pair of plastic pants and let it rip. At one point I decided I wanted something to drink so I went downstairs and got a beer out of the refrigerator and came back upstairs. About two minutes later I heard my kid--who was about 12--down there yelling "MY GOD, IT SMELLS LIKE CRAP IN HERE!" I quickly got up and ran to the shower (meaning I didn't get to enjoy the usual fun I have when I do this) and later told him "Sorry but I don't feel good and let a big fart down there!" But, you really do need to be careful.
If I go out in public in diapers and want to poop them, I always try to avoid getting too close to other people. Grocery stores are a good place to go because there are so many different smells in there that it seems to confuse people's noses and as long as they don't get more than one whiff, they usually don't figure it out. The only time it really gets to be dicey is if you buy something, have to stand in the check-out lane, and somebody comes along and gets in line behind you. I've had a couple of instance of this happening and I'd imagine that the person behind me noticed--but by the time they did I'd paid and was out of there.
Or did they notice? If they did, did the realize what it was? Humans have a tendency to not believe the unbelievable, and I really do think that most folks have the notion of "Adults don't wear diapers and poop in their pants" so ingrained in their heads that in many cases I doubt that they believed their noses.