False equivalency.
You don't send out invitations to all your friends and relatives when you have a poop.
...or do you?
I can't tell you the number of times people announce at work that they are going to the bathroom and what they have to do while they are there.
You figure this is holdover behavior from when we were small and potty-training?
Our parents were always interested in what we were planning to do (so they could decide if they needed to get up and help or not.)
They would have responded with this morning???