To be desperate for a 2nd toilet

[LJS666]

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.

Get lock, corks, and appt with their GP.

Check they don't need the bathroom as you run it ?

11 and 19? They can hold that or clean up their own shite.

Fix the locks.

The 19-year-old is old enough to go find another bog to dump in.

WTF?

Same thing with being in your nightie.

Didn't you teach them any personal boundaries?

How are they going to learn respect for their own bodies if you don't teach them about respecting other peoples'?

Get a backbone.

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

Are you serious?

If my 19-year-old shat in my garden and left it, he'd need to find a new place to live.

If my 11-year-old did that, he'd bloody well by the one cleaning it up, too.

They sound minging.

don't you ask them before you have a bath, my mum always used to shout down, 10 mins until my bath, - if we didn't take her up on that then we either held it in or asked next door if really badly needed it.

Whats wrong with your DS's? do they have a particularly high fibre diet or summint?

This has to be a wind-up, right?

Seriously, who would let their 19 year old son use the toilet while they were in the bath?

If this isn't a wind-up, three pieces of advice:

1. Get a bolt for the bathroom door.
2. Get appointments at the GP for both of them.
3. Set some boundaries as a matter of urgency!

Must be a wind up.I have 3 grown sons and I can honestly say i never saw them Shit after they were about 5. Nor would they want me to. normal people have one crap per day and you expect us to believe they need theirs when you have a bath. get a lock woman and tell them it ain't happening. I can hold my pooh for ages if I'm in town or working in community!

A battle I am desparate to be in control of once again. We just moved from our old house, which had two toilets for five people, to this tiny, cramped little thing, which has only one. It doesn't matter what I do, there is no good time to use the bathroom, at all. I have tried getting up at 3 am while everyone else is snoring, just to use the bathroom in peace. It doesn't work. I think everyone in this house has a combination overactive bladder and irritable bowel ... they do all have shit diets, so I suppose that is probably the case.