What are the most inconvenient things to happen while you're in the bathroom?

[OliveCrab]

In the shower the phone ringing.

A hairline crack in the toilet bowl suddenly gave way and threw me to the floor with my jeans round my knees, into a pool of wee. My mum burst in and said “Was that your bottom?” and then was hanging off the door handle laughing at me. Awful. PTSD.

Ring on the doorbell, DH at work, late delivery or randomer wanting a charity donation. Alternatively, the cat being sick on the carpet!

Dog barking as he’s followed me at 3am and wants to keep me company, while we have friends and wakeful newborn in the next room.

Part of the door handle fell off. You can screw it back on and then open the door. It took a few minutes of trying to open the door to realise that!

Actually in the bath…

My cat likes to sit on the edge and keep me company. One time she jumped up as usual, but slipped as the edge of the bath was wet. Fell in, panicked, grabbed my leg with all four sets of claws to try and get herself out. My poor soggy girl, and my poor leg!

Passport control on an international sleeper train 😂

The bloody light goes off the minute my bum hits the seat! One of those saver things. Ok if you are a bloke but if not, by the time you have pulled your bottom half clothes down and sat on the seat, it goes off!

Late evening bath when you are on your own in the house and the bathroom lightbulb explodes, showering your unclad body, the bath, the towels and the floor with millions of pieces of shattered glass, and plunging the room into total darkness.

That was fun.

Good grief, I was just about to post the same thing!

Except that it wasn't me, it was the two DC in the bath when very young.
Decades ago, still traumatised. (Me, not them)

Those giant rolls of toilet paper in public/pub toilets where the end has disappeared inside and you're desperately scrabbling away trying to find the end...or it tears off and leaves with just one square. (That with some ingenious origami one can just about use.)

Mooncup spattering over the newly repainted walls as I took it out

The window cleaner coming up the ladder and cleaning the window. Frosted glass or not, you can still see enough for him to know what I was doing, and for me to KNOW he knew.

It's someone at the door when I'm halfway thru a number 2 but my 4yo is talking to them thru the letterbox and they are doubtless gonna ring ss coz they think the 4yo is home alone.. and I'm shouting from the loo 'I'll just be a minute'

Once I was in the middle of going to the loo when the fire alarm went off in a bar and everyone had to evacuate and someone came in and start shouting 'get out now!!' Sir you do not want me to do that..

DH sending the kids in instead of doing his own thinking. (He doesn’t do this anymore.)

For me it was the desperate need for a wee as an about 10 year old. Going into the bathroom to see I swear what looked like a tarantula over the loo. And next door (spider catchers) weren't in. That was a loooong wait.

No loo roll
No towel when you reach for one from within the shower
Dropping something down the loo or plug hole (earring, toothbrush /interdental brush etc)
Having just stank out the place and someone else needs in.

Countries where they still have the porcelain hole in the ground with places to put your feet and crouch. Trying to keep feet, clothing and any bags out of the splash zone while aiming correctly and then discovering there's no paper.

Sitting on loo when builder's foot came through the ceiling (they were doing the loft). He was only young. He came down to apologise, and i got him a cup of tea cleaned up the cuts on his leg, then he cried and said all the other builders bullied him. He hadn't listened about not standing between joists. It happened 2 more times (oniy the once when i was having a pee!).

Deliveries. You have some ridiculous 4 hour time slot, or even an all day one and desperately need to go. As soon as you sit down the secret button in the seat alerts you driver who then knocks at the door, leaving you with a scrabble to finish off and a split second of guilt.about not washing hands.

The leg fell off the claw bath and tipped me and a bath full of water all over the floor.

Awful constipation then diarrhoea in the office loo. I was in there so long all the lights went out. I had to ring the only other woman in the company and ask her to walk in and straight out again (preferably without breathing) 😳