Toilet etiquette

[LikeTheFruit]

If you are in someone else's house and need to use the loo.

Do you:

A) Say something along the lines of "I'm just nipping to the loo"
B) Get up and leave room without saying a word

A definitely!
I'd wonder where you were going if you didn't...

I say 'Is it OK if I use the loo, please?'

Getting up and leaving the room without saying anything would be extremely rude.

My dm or dsis, I'd say that I was just popping to the toilet. If it was anyone else's house, I'd ask if it was ok to use the toilet.

I said I’m just going to the loo during a meeting as didn’t want to just stand up and walk out... got told that I was ‘over sharing’ was a bit awks!

Neither! I would ask if I could use their toilet

I instinctively say please can I borrow your toilet and then get the predictable hilarious response that can I return it after use etc. I wouldn’t just go. I would always ask

I'm uptight so say bathroom

Depends how well I know them. If I’ve been before and it’s just me and them, I’d say popping to the loo, if I’ve not been before I’d ask if I could use the loo. If there was a group of us and I’d been before I’d just go and not say anything,

Parents and ILs house plus close friends I will just go unless we are mid convo where I will say excuse me I'm just going to the bathroom. Others I will ask whether I can use the bathroom.

In a meeting I would leave the room with apologies, in someone's house I would ask/say dependent on how close we are...

The only place I'll go to the bathroom without checking with the host first is my parents. Anywhere else I'll either excuse myself for a moment (work) or actually check it's OK to use someone's bathroom.

Although it's all a moot point at the moment because I'm not allowed in anyone's house apart from my parents!

It depends whose house it is.
Parents, or my best friends, I just use it, same as she does mine.
Others, I will ask (or maybe inform, depending on how well I know them).

Doesn't it depend how long you're there for?

If I was staying with someone for a week I wouldn't say "I'm just nipping to the loo" every time I went! If I was there for 2 hours and we were sat chatting in the same room then I would, to excuse myself from the conversation!