No toilet: how long before do you stop drinking?

[PrincessTuna]

With covid lots of my standard days out with the DC have been affected by lack of toilet options. The kids can just pee behind a bush but that's less acceptable for adults!

I tried to stop drinking 90 minutes before leaving. Still need a wee as soon as I arrive! I do have a weak bladder generally. I've started keeping a potty and blanket in the car.

Anyway just wondered how long other people need to ensure bladder clear!

I'm sure it's psychological because you know you can't go! I'm the same if I embark on a long car journey, 20 minutes down the road and I need a wee even though I've hardly drunk anything and been before i left!

If you're a frequent wee-er I don't think there's a lot you can do other than go before you go out and go behind a bush if you need to.

I don't think it's unacceptable if you need to go and can find somewhere private enough off the path so people don't have to walk in it.

Have you seen this op?
www.lockdownloo.com/

@BaggoMcoys this website should be more widely known. Fear of needing a toilet without warning is a barrier to some people going out, more so with some places still being closed due to Covid 19 restrictions.

Many loos on the site can still be closed at short notice due to lack of cleaners etc

About three hours I'd say. But I can usually find a bush somewhere. Or get a kids potty with the bags, potette plus is great. Not that I've ever tried but I'm sure I could go on that in the back of the car if I had to.

Wear a long skirt or elasticated trousers and a long coat. Get a big handbag. Take a plastic jug, bottle of water, tissues and nappy sack everywhere.

Easy

I'm almost permanently dehydrated as I have urge incontinence. It's the bane of my life.

I pee outside all the time (like about ten times a week maybe)? I love tea and water, and I love to walk, so it's necessary. I'm Highlands so no public toilets here, so for me it's either pee outside or don't go out at all! Some of the peeing is in proper wild places so unlikely to get spotted, but often I pee in the village too. Have been seen a couple of times but that's life y'know...
Since you've got the kids with you, could you use them as guards? Choose a place which currently has no people in it, position them a short way along the path/the other side of the bush, and they come back and warn you if there's someone coming?
In Scotland I believe it's not an offence to pee outside so long as you have a reasonable belief nobody would see you (so you've checked there's nobody in the immediate vicinity). Don't know which country you're in, but sure it won't actually be illegal?

Rather than dehydrate I would plan my trips around access to toilets.

I fell into the trap of going places where they state the loos are open after first lockdown - to find them closed!

I have endo and often severe bleeding and it's really been affected by toilets being shut during lockdown.

Spent too many weeks I could be going out - staying at home!

I'm another who spends too much of my life inside through fear of lack of toilets. I also barely drink if I'm due to go out that day so often have headache dehydration

i bought a she wee incase i was ever caught out

Cheaper version of She Wee here

I tend to just find a bush. I'd never go anywhere if I couldn't go for a wee.

I've been peeing behind bushes throughout. I'm female if that makes a difference. Being on the coast/rural does help find suitable bushes, not on roundabouts or in shopping precincts

Another vote for just peeing when you need to. My only concession to public sensibility is that I tend to wear country colours so think I blend in well with trees and bushes and mostly walk in relatively quiet places.

Fresh air and exercise is good for us. It would never occur to me to stay at home on the off chance that I couldn't find a loo.

My mother, I now realise, had urge incontinence so that I would know all the loos anywhere we ever went and expect to spend a good time for any outing looking for or guarding the loo.

Using the bushes in a quiet area is my solution

Camel here.
I drink breakfast, lunch and dinner.
I'd go for a wee before we leave, and generally avoid public toilets as most are grim. I'd need to be out for more than half a day to need a loo.

I find coffee makes me wee a lot, I think it irritates the bladder? I make sure I don't have any for about 90 mins before I leave. I make use of the lockdownloo website and have a porta jane in the car. I haven't needed to use it yet but I like knowing it's there as a back up.

Can I ask how everyone weeing wherever is doing it? I have only done it a couple of times in very rural parts of Italy and somehow 'holiday' made it feel more acceptable! And warm!

I mostly where trousers and I don't understand how I'd get them down/where to place my feet/ stop myself from falling over.

Well you just squat with your trousers just above your knees. I suppose you need to be sufficiently able bodied, so might struggle if you have knee or balance problems.

@Badabingbadabum I crouch first and then wiggle my trousers down, so there's no standing up with my bum on show. Pee quick, shake, trousers back on. Takes twenty seconds tops. It isn't warm in winter though! Also avoid hard surfaces if possible as you sometimes get splashback!
Can you squat normally on either flat feet or on tiptoes? If not you might have an issue right enough. If you can squat but feel wobbly, you just need to hold the bush with a hand. Or a handful of long grass will do. Or even lean forward a bit a place the fingertips of one hand on the ground.
If crouching is an issue you could try a shewee. Not everyone gets on with them, but if you find them good it would mean you could pee outside without needing to take down your trousers or squat.

Today I didn't drink 90 minutes before leaving. Had a wee before leaving. Managed almost 3 hours which is very good for me. As soon as I saw an open toilet I became desperate for one of course!

At the weekend I had to pee in the outdoors. I spent ages looking for a private spot (in which time nobody passed so in theory I could.have just peed on the path!). Went behind a tree and only once in flow did I realised I wasnt all that private. Of course a couple wandered past and got a flash of my squatting arse. What a faff.

My DC would make a terrible look out. "Mummy we can see your bum." shouted as a large group passes etc.

Maybe I should try a she wee thingy.