Women in department store loos - WTF are you doing in there?

[madonnawhore]

(inspired by another thread on here)

I was in John Lewis yesterday and needed the loo. There were two cubicles occupied and two people waiting ahead of me.

The two women occupying the cubicles took AGES. Ages and ages. WTF were they doing?

Eventually the right hand one became free, so the woman at the head of the queue went in. And then she took AGES.

And all the while, the left hand cubicle is still occupied by the same person, and it's been about 10 mins since I started queuing.

Seriously, WTAF? When I go for a wee, I'm in and out. No messing. Even if I need to change a tampon or something; no fucking around. Especially if there's a queue of people waiting.

By the time it got to be my turn I'd been waiting about 15mins for 3 women to have a wee. And the left hand cubicle was STILL occupied.

How long does it take you lot to wee? Are you one of those annoying 5 minute people that made me late for my hair appointment yesterday?

Maybe she wanted a pooh but was waiting for it to the room to be empty or got stage fright?!!

Too bad lady. Public toilet rules say get in and get out as quickly as possible. I can't be held hostage to someone's poo schedule.

She might have been reading whilst doing a pooh. My dh always takes ages in the loo if he is reading in there.

Constipation?

Pregnant and utterly
Desperate for a
Sit down?
Someone fucking with you and putting a pair of boots in the cubicle and it was actually free the whole
Time?

Unknown

I would love to know too madonna as have been in same situation - occasionally I have had to use a cubicle to change/clean up dd but not for that long.

I might be. Thanks to childbirth I have a bladder that works according to its own schedule, so one day I might be unable to get to the loo on time as I have had had no warning that I needed to go - and another day I might be bursting to go but it just won't come out so I have to sit there until it comes out in dribs and drabs. Not very pleasant and no doubt very annoying for everyone around me, but pissing myself three minutes later is not an option so I will keep everyone waiting (assuming there are more than 2 cubicles).

You can understand that one Person may be unwell, pregnant etc but both?

Suffering with terrible constipation? Trying to clean themselves up after an accident? Emptying a catheter drainage bag?

Nobody would sit in a cubicle for the hell of it, so I always assume there's some problem they're dealing with.

I saw a man going into the loo in Ikea with a cup of tea and a paper so I imagine he was settling in for a long time!

Intriguing...

Also, have you ever walked into a public loo and one of the cubicles has been smeared all over with shit?

That's happened to me a couple of times unfortunately.

Who DOES that?

And how do they get away with it? Surely they have horrid poo hands?

A cup of tea? That's awful. I'd raise an eyebrow at reading material, but refreshments?

Exactly Gigondas. And after waiting in line with us for ages, when the woman at the front of the queue finally got in there, SHE then took ages.

You'd think she'd have seen us all crossing our legs with increasing panic and hurried the fuck up. But noooooo. Cut to 5 minutes later and out she strolls like butter wouldn't melt.

Meanwhile, cubicle number two (no pun intended) is on the brink of aneurysm after 10 mins of straining.

Sometimes din public loos you have to wait ages to get them to flush.

If I've just done a drank lots of water very diluted pee and a wee odd of toilet roll, I might leave and let the next person flush if I know there's a cue. If I'm on my period, I feel I have to,sit it out till it works and not subject anyone else to that carnage.

Cue? Cue? QUE!

The rest were the iPad.

FFS! Queue!!!!

They must be having a long leisurely crapola de luxe I reckon. No matter what public loo I go into - shopping centre, department store - whatever - the person before me has ALWAYS done a huge steaming stinking shit. Some people have no shame!

Siamo - and then the person who goes in after you thinks that you made the awful smell!

I have often pondered upon this very odd phenomenon.

That happens to me at work.

I always seem to go to the loo right after a phantom stinky crapper. Then when I come out, there's someone waiting to go right in!

God ive always wondered this too !

The last time I was in a cafe and getting riled about this, the woman in there was on her first trip out since having a miscarriage. :( :( :( She'd underestimated how much blood loss there would be and got in a real pickle. The woman in front of me had done the whole banging on the door thing, and it was JUST AWFUL for everyone. We all ended up in a women's coven consoling a stranger kind of thing.

That said, that can't be the story for all three of them.

Bloody exactly dexter - I end up scurrying out shamefaced when all I did was a 10 second piss! Damn the shitters! Why can't they just do it at home?