These are the things I think about when I leave the house, either on foot, bicycle, or car...
I've now been living plugged for ten years, and if you add all the years prior to that when I wore a butt plug a lot, I'm sure that ten years describes just how long my ass has gone plugged, and that includes out in public. But even with all that real life experience, I do have to be careful much of the time, because my body is subject to bouts of digestive issues, times when I've eaten the wrong foods, and time when my stool might not be as firm as I like.
Don't go out plugged if you "kind'a feel like you might need to shit." I'm not kidding. Doing that can ensure that you're going to be in a public toilet sometime that day and you're going to have to deal with a little or a lot of clean up. I used to keep a zip-lock baggie in my pocket with a wet paper towel, just in case I needed to clean the plug in the toilet stall. I certainly couldn't/wouldn't even think of attempting to wash it in the sink where someone might see, unless...hey you're in a seedy part of town where people go bar hopping, shit themselves, vomit on their shoes, piss their pants, and then head back into the bar for another round. While I've been dog drunk a few times and once had to help my lover wipe himself in a bar toilet because he was that drunk as well.
I'm really talking about the normal outings, like dropping by the post office on the way to a coffee shop, heading to a meeting, going to an art gallery, grocery shopping, or even heading to the river. And yes, there are cruising places to go where you can literally walk around with your dick out and play with yourself, and even if you don't get approached for sex, you can still enjoy your sexiness. I used to do this when I was unattached or in an open relationship. Now, I just do it for my own solo sexual edging enjoyment.
But always with a butt plug—specifically my glass 5 inch long plug with the ring base and two-inch diameter egg on the end of the nice fat shaft that keeps my sphincter open about an inch.
I live down in the deep south and I'm really getting tired of the endless cold and rain of winter, which lasts longer than you might expect in the south. I will be naked most of the time this spring and summer and on into the fall, and I will be plugged.
