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

85 replies

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.

OP posts:
2rebecca · 18/04/2011 20:20

I happily go to the toilet anyway, pig loos in Goa, behind bushes, chemical toilets, holes in gound. Would rather be free to travel and use suboptimal toilets than stuck at home due to fussiness.

whatsallthehullaballoo · 18/04/2011 20:22

Oh my - is 'shat' a REAL word??? Shock

KarenWalker · 18/04/2011 20:28

I can go pretty much anywhere if the need arises and have made a mental note of the shops to use when out and about (Marks & Spencers, reliable as ever). Understand that not everyone can bring themselves too though.

Nagoo · 18/04/2011 20:29

you people who are all 'a-quiver' about the public toilets... YOU are the people who 'hover' aren't you?

And leave piss all over the seat.

It's your fault that public toilets are horrible. if people just sat down and got on with it, they'd be all right.

jojowest · 18/04/2011 20:40

what will happen to you if you use a mucky loo?

if i need to go, i go - no hang ups here :)

ZacharyQuack · 19/04/2011 00:10

I think it's fabulous that all you lot are boycotting public loos.

Shorter queues for us normal people. Grin

Newgolddream · 19/04/2011 00:44

A few weeks ago I used quite possibly the most disgusting toilet Ive ever had the misfortune to, ever. We drove for 3 and a half hours from Glasgow to Morecambe to buy a car, got to the garage and there was a problem with the windows, time was marching on and we were sitting in the car getting more crossed legged, eventually DS2 whos 8 asked first, the guy there showed him where it was, when he came back I asked him if its was ok - he said a "bit dirty" - this from the king of dirt who rolls about in the stuff and never notices it Grin

So I asked the guy if I could use it - the warning bells were there when he said "I dont think its suitable for a lady" ( Grin at getting called a lady mind you) - by god he wasnt wrong, it looked as if it had been installed in the 60s in a tiny wee cubicle with a sink, and had never been cleaned since, a bit like 1 from A Life of Grime, crossed with Trainspotting with a bit of Kim and Aggie thrown in to!

I didnt think toilets and sinks could look so dirty, manky and filthy I really didnt. Of course I "hovered" - and managed to pee on the floor to - when I tried to clean that up with the "spit peas through" toilet paper (guess I was just lucky there was some eh) - the amount of dirt that came up that there was on the floor it need a mop and detergent, not a teeny bit of toilet paper.

And when I flushed the water rose to the top and flooded the floor again. Blush

Oh and just to make matters worse I was on my period - but there was no way on earth I was attempting anything else in that loo!

Needless to say when we left we found the nearest supermarket - and thank you Sainsburys in Morecambe - your loos are fantastic!!!!!!!

ZacharyQuack · 19/04/2011 02:16

See - hoverers pee on the floor! You're part of the problem, people! Grin

Insert1x50p · 19/04/2011 02:25

half the problem with squat loos is that westerners face the wrong way on them- you're supposed to face the wall, not the door.

Newgolddream · 19/04/2011 12:55

zach I can asssure you if you had seen this loo you to would have been hovering like a helipcopter. Grin

tyler80 · 19/04/2011 13:04

I don't understand how it's possible to pee on the floor, even if you're hovering Confused

Cattleprod · 19/04/2011 13:09

I thought only men were like this - DP has been known to drive 30 miles home to use our toilet if we're out and he needs a poo. And our toilet isn't even that clean!!Blush

I'll happily wee and poo anywhere (preferably not in mens public toilets or outside) but I do hate leaving used sanitary protection in someone else's house, unless they have lots of stuff in the bin already and I can hide it. It's amazing how many people have no bin in their bathroom. Many times I've had to wrap the thing in tissue and put it up my sleeve, then try to sneak it into my handbag or the kitchen bin.

Bunbaker · 19/04/2011 13:21

The loos in my house are spotless, but I don't have a phobia about public loos. I don't think it does your kidneys any good to hold it in all day. I dislike dirty toilets, but am not germ phobic or OCD about it.

Those of you who are precious about public loos - do you never go out on day trips, go on holiday, go to work? Why don't you carry antibac wipes around with you and use them on public loo seats?

PelvicFloorsOfSteel · 19/04/2011 13:45

I hate the thought of using wipes (antibac or otherwise) because that means getting up close and personal with your hands, not at all bothered about putting my arse on a public toilet seat if I have to though (provided some hovering idiot hasn't weed on it).

Generally I don't need to go that often but when pregnant the combination of needing to go a lot, smelly loos, hypersensitive sense of smell and 'morning' sickness prevented me going on long trips out.

Portaloos make me want to heave though, still mentally scarred from one I encountered at Glastonbury in 2001 (or it might have been 2000 - the really, really badly overcrowded year anyway).

Bumblequeen · 19/04/2011 14:39

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Pancakeflipper · 19/04/2011 14:49

I don't like my MIL loo. It's very old and has a bizarre handle pulling arrangement, if not in a certain position the cistern doesn't fill.

Whenever I go, I make my BIL go in after and sort out the flushing arrangement. Typing this makes me realise that's not normal.

ipswichwitch · 19/04/2011 14:50

dont have a problem using public loo as such, what i cant bloody abide is when you're in the loos, n you're the only one there, then some bugger else comes in and goes in the cubicle right next to you. what the hell is wrong with you people??????? why when there's a million other nice empty toilets well away from me, would you instead choose the one next door????? all i got to say to those people is if i let a little pump out, you deserve to sit n smell it :)

HellonHeels · 19/04/2011 14:50

I am fine with public loos, have used some dire ones on hols or in emergencies but I struggle with weeing outdoors.

It's a nightmare because I do a lot of all-day hiking and cycling. I just don't understand how women manage to wee outdoors without either a. removing all lower garments or b. weeing on your pants. What am I doing wrong? I have got a she wee but have trouble with that too because it seems to give me some sort of performance anxiety and then I can't go...

tyler80 · 19/04/2011 17:01

HellonHeels

Weeing outdoors is easy, nothing more complicated than squatting, depending on looseness of clothing I might use a hand to make sure they're well out of the firing line but there's no magic trick. I haven't had a problem since a dungaree related incident age 7 Grin

GabbyLoggon · 19/04/2011 17:43

cheeky, I used to operate with a female phone in presenter.

She said some of her friends with perform amazing contortions to avoid sitting on a loo seat. (I could write a musucal about it)

JudysDreamHorse · 19/04/2011 18:20

No problems with public loos if they are clean. I'm a lot more paranoid about the state of my bathroom since joining MN though.
I do have a friend who took Immodium before flying to America as she couldn't bear the thought of having to do a poo on the plane.

GabbyLoggon · 19/04/2011 18:24

I love contornonist toilet.stories. Whwhen you I would take an empty milk bottle to beD To pee in. (Crack shot)

lesley33 · 19/04/2011 18:25

I think this is fairly common although I think a bit OTT. It is easy to see whether a toilet seat is clean or not and easy to clean or cover in toilet paper if you are unsure.

I always use public toilets if I need to. And I agree with those who have travelled in countries with holes in the ground for toilets - it cures you of any preciousness about toilets if the only ones you can go to that whole day are disgusting. The choice becomes use them or pee/poo in your pants.

lesley33 · 19/04/2011 18:32

I hate people who hover over the toilet, pee on the toilet seat and then leave it! If you pee on the seat, you should have the decency to clean it for the next person.

fluffles · 19/04/2011 18:33

i don't understand people who can't even pee in normal public toilets.. weird.

and not peeing or pooing at work??? well that's just got to be unhealthy.

but it's the hoverers who dribble who really GET my GOAT Angry