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AIBU to actually not like using other peoples Toilets...

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CheekyLittleSox · 18/04/2011 15:03

the "Dog shat on my picnic" got me thinking...

If me, Dh & Kids go out anywhere or if i go out say shopping or somewhere. I will NOT use a public toilet. If i go to friends houses i have to "think" about going before i ask to use their loo. If the house seems unkept or messy or dirty i wont use it. But if its a relatives house i will.

AIBU to prefer to shat and piss on my own lav Grin or am i just been a fussy cow.

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manfromCUK · 18/04/2011 15:06

YABU and fussy - but only IMHO and I if I could only get odds at the bookies I'd bet you are in the majority (based on the women I know)

rubyrubyruby · 18/04/2011 15:07

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CheekyLittleSox · 18/04/2011 15:08

what do you mean? Most women are like me???

My 2nd best friend is having therapy for her fears of toilets....she is affraid of her OWN toilet.

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manfromCUK · 18/04/2011 15:09

Off top of my head I don't know any woman who will use public loo.

ForeverNamechanging · 18/04/2011 15:09

I would never shat in a public loo(or on someone's picnic) but i will wee in one(public loo not a picnic)

VajazzHands · 18/04/2011 15:11

YANBU.

ShatnersBassoon · 18/04/2011 15:11

I won't pass solids in someone else's house, or in public or work loos. Makes journeys home from long weekends with friends a feat of mind over matter.

In hotels on holiday I'm fine, because that's my toilet for the duration and nobody's going to go in after me and have to endure my stench.

usualsuspect · 18/04/2011 15:12

I'm not fussed ,if you gotta go, you gotta go

IloveJudgeJudy · 18/04/2011 15:13

YABU. If you've gotta go, you gotta go. HOlding in is not good for your digestion.

BringBackGoingForGold · 18/04/2011 15:13

Present tense is 'shit'. Past tense is 'shat'. 'I shat in my friend's loo yesterday' but 'I would never shit in a public loo'.

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And no, I don't have a problem with using either other people's loos or public ones. I always put paper down to deaden the sound, though, even if it's only a wee. Mind you, I do that at home sometimes too.

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CheekyLittleSox · 18/04/2011 15:14

Shatners Hotel is fine for me because as you said no one else will use it apart from DH and kids.

Its the thought of sitting on a seat that could be so riddled with germs and god knows what else.

There is a public loo in Castleford Town Centre (if anyone knows of it in Carlton Lanes Shopping Centre)

WOW pong of the century it fucking stinks to high heaven in there every day and thats whats put me off cos when i was pregnant with both DS' i had to use it or it was piss myself.

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strandedbear · 18/04/2011 15:15

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Silverstar2 · 18/04/2011 15:18

If I need to go then I will use someone else's toilet, of course. That is what they are for after all, does you no good to hold it in.

YABU.

CoolYerBoots · 18/04/2011 15:20

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BringBackGoingForGold · 18/04/2011 15:23

Cool, I don't know that loo but I could tell you some stories about khazis in India ...

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CheekyLittleSox · 18/04/2011 15:26

Oh god dont get me thinking of that loo on trainspotting i will be boaking all day

I couldnt go to these places with just a hole in the ground - oh god my idea of hell.

On holiday im fine, specially in a hotel with own toilet or apartment as i know for that week it be me using it and DH and kids only. Not open to every fucker lol

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WassaAxolotlEgg · 18/04/2011 15:29

A toilet is a toilet is a toilet. Unless it's filthy, and the bowl is filled with cigarette butts, crisp packets, and other indeterminate objects.

I couldn't use that one.

SpringFollows · 18/04/2011 15:35

That is why I take baby wipes everywhere. I wipe all toilet seats.

Mind you, in the dark distant (very distant) days of my yoof, I lived and travelled for 8 or so years in 'developing countries'. I recall very well a long drop loo in a village in Nepal. It was a great pit, with a plank of wood you had to walk out onto and then balance on as you squatted. A male friend went out, was gone for some time then came back looking green. He asked his wife if she had a spare set of their house keys. She said, no, why? He looked at her for a long moment and then said 'well I'm not going back for them'.

lorelilee · 18/04/2011 15:42

I'm the Martini girl (any time, any place, any where). Showing my age now.

manfromCUK · 18/04/2011 15:51

I thought that stuff about catching stuff off loo seats was a load of old bobbins

COCKadoodledooo · 18/04/2011 15:51

"A toilet is a toilet is a toilet."

I used to think that. And then I did a 24 hour trek across Mali. I will never complain about UK service station toilets again, however minging they are!

I don't poo in a public loo. Never did at work either. Very rarely in friends' houses. I don't know why - maybe I just have a shy sphincter Grin

piprabbit · 18/04/2011 15:52

Cheeky, you will be pleased to know that if you ever visit my MIL and choose to use her toilet, you will find her waiting outside with gloves and bleach. You would not be considered fit to use her hallowed porcelain (but then again, I haven't met anyone who is Grin).

BringBackGoingForGold · 18/04/2011 15:53

manfrom, it is! Load of squeamish nonsense.

onehotmomma · 18/04/2011 15:55

yanbu, I don't mind peeing in other peoples toilets but will not take a dump anywhere but my own Blush

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