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Original poster

To be desperate for a 2nd toilet

33 replies

LJS666 · 27/08/2010 23:40

We have 1 toilet in the house, which is in the bathroom.

I swear it is a siren call to my DSs, aged 11 and 19, to come in and have a shit every time I am in the bath.

Thankfully I am divorced or I am sure I would have to sit through 3 rather than 2 shits.

A quick wee I can cope with, but are their bowels that urgent?

I'm not even especially clean, 2 - 3 baths a week.

Their defence is that I take too long in the bath, I agree that I can take up to 1.5 hours soaking and reading to get away from the bastards (who I do love really).

I did once lock them out and DS2 (who was 5 at the time) shat himself in the hallway.

I remember when my Mum used to get in the bath and I would flick the light on and off outside to get her attention and she would shout/scream "I'm going to batter whoever's on the other side of that door".

Maybe I should have just shat myself too.

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LucyLouLou · 27/08/2010 23:42

Surely at 11 and 19 they are old enough to understand a locked door?! I find it a bit weird they would want to come in and use the toilet while their mother is in the bath!

YANBU btw.

cheesesarnie · 27/08/2010 23:44

theyre 11 and 19 and dont mind shitting whilst theyre mums in the bath!!

i have 3 toiletsGrin

JuicyLips · 27/08/2010 23:44

I know how you feel. I occasionally have this problem. But have also done this whilst dh is in the bath. In my their defence when you are desperate your desperate! They'd probably still do it even if you did have another loo...

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LJS666 · 27/08/2010 23:45

I have said - WTF - wait till I'm finished. A quick wee I understand.

The lock appears to work but doesn't really.

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Myleetlepony · 27/08/2010 23:46

You are joking right? The youngest is 11 now, not 5, and the 19 year old is an adult. Just tell them you are about to run a bath, no visits will be allowed, then lock the door and don't let them in.
Anyone shits themselves give them a kick up the arse and make them clear it up.

Doesn't there come a point when any mum is entitled to a bit of privacy from adult sons? An aside I know, but 19 years old walking in when you're in the bath. !!!

Myleetlepony · 27/08/2010 23:46

p.s. Get a nice big bolt that does work.

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LJS666 · 27/08/2010 23:47

Unless I was very seriously going to shit myself due to an illness I really would wait. I think they are a bit mental.

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LJS666 · 27/08/2010 23:48

The 19 year old I have put on a "serious face" and said, "is this a fetish you have?"

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LJS666 · 27/08/2010 23:50

I must confess I do stay in there a long time, but I don't care, I like having baths!

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maryz · 27/08/2010 23:50

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compo · 27/08/2010 23:51

This is a wind up right?

Sotheyve been shitting while you're in the bath since you're eldest was five? For 12 years? You mustsecretly love it or you'd have told them
I pity their future wives

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LJS666 · 27/08/2010 23:54

Compo - no wind up, I'm just a bad mum.

The lock doesn't work and they tell me they need a shit and so I pull the shower curtain across whilst they have a shit and then I continue to lie there wafting in lavender/shit scented air.

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cheesesarnie · 27/08/2010 23:58

get a new lock!!!!

TheNextMrsDepp · 27/08/2010 23:59

I feel your pain.

Until recently we only had one toilet for the 5 of us. My 3 dcs were younger than yours but had bowels that also seemingly co-ordinated with me having a bath. A memorable, but not untypical moment was when ds rushed in to ask "can Louis from next door can use the loo? He's desperate?"

We recently moved to a house with three toilets - oh, the joy! But they still seem to gravitate to the one that's occupied!! At least now I can tell them to push off.

cheesesarnie · 27/08/2010 23:59

and your not a bad mum.im a bad mum as id tell them to sod off!

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LJS666 · 27/08/2010 23:59

And a compost heap - would that work? Is that for shit or just tattie peelings etc?

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compo · 28/08/2010 00:03

Well I'd tell your 19 year old to stop shitting while your in the bath
or he can move out
seriously how can you and him think it's normal
tell his mates he only does a poo when you're in the room
embarass him out of it
write in his 20 th birthday card 'dear ds now you're 20 please stop pooing when I'm in the bath'
do something woman! Don't be a doormat

MrsJessRabinovitch · 28/08/2010 00:05

I spluttered neat vodka me brew all over the keyboard when I read "I did once lock them out and DS2 (who was 5 at the time) shat himself in the hallway."...feel your pain LJS666 with 3 DS's & a DH who seem to have no capacity to hold their poo its a bloody nightmare! Have given up even trying to have a bath but even when I am having a wee someone is banging on the door doing the desperate for a piss dance Grin! We have 2 loos 1 upstairs 1 down but the upstairs one is so fricking rammy too far for their little legs so they just pester me!

yadnbu - my DSisInLaw has 2 DS's and not only her own loo but her own bathroom Envy

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LJS666 · 28/08/2010 00:05

Cheese - I do tell them to Fuck Off rather than sod off - it's crisper in it's meaning (only the 19 year old really) - I think that's helpful with children. Boundaries n all that.

Oh dear - the next Mrs Depp - I often have 2 or 3 extra boys in the house and have given up trying not to let them see me in my nightie with my tits swinging loose (within my flanelette nightie). Having extra children in the bog might just tip me over the edge though.

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LJS666 · 28/08/2010 00:11

Compo - I think you're a harsh woman Wink.

Sending him a card for his 20th when he's at Uni saying "stop plopping while Mummy's in the bath" might make him slash his wrists.

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LJS666 · 28/08/2010 00:13

Mrs Jess - why don't they use the other toilet? Have you tried hitting them?

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MrsJessRabinovitch · 28/08/2010 00:19

Seriously-they are so lazy they would rather whine & grind me down whenever I am sat on the loo than run upstairs! The reason I don't go upstairs is i would piss myself ahem my pelvic floors aren't what they used to be so I always run for the nearest one!

Grin

hitting them could also work though save me breaking into a sweat doing all that fanjo squeezing exercise!....or nappies again?

Quattrocento · 28/08/2010 00:21

Blimey. Whatever next? Don't let them in. If their needs are so uncontrollable then they have bladder problems. Or bowel problems. And even if they are afflicted at their tender ages with bladder and bowel problems, I would send them out into the garden with a pile of loo roll and a scoopy bag rather than let them in.

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LJS666 · 28/08/2010 00:29

Mrs Jess battering them reasoning with them could be an answer.

Who would the nappies be for?

Quattro, the lock doesn't work and they can't be trusted not to do it in the garden and leave evidence.

I have heard tell that rich folks have their own wing of the house. Imagine a wing, a suite to yourself....

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Myleetlepony · 28/08/2010 11:13

Fix the lock.