re: Space awareness in campsite loos

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Went camping this weekend, lovely little break, great very spacious facilities, shower rooms, long row of loos and handbasins and mirrors opposite (about 12 in a row). Also a row of mirrors with just worktop/ shelf (no basins) for make-up, hair drying etc I suppose.

First morning - in l goes with my toilet bag to do my oblutions. I was standing in front of second to end basin looking in mirror cleaning my face with cleanser/cotton wool with a headband on etc and thinking - ' oh this is nice /great facilities etc etc ' ( last place we stayed they were very very basic and not good ). There was no-one else in at all.

With that in she comes - a youngish woman about thirty/thirty five, walks past the whole row of sinks to get to the end one next to me, maybe eight inches between our elbows, then proceeds to vigourously brush her teeth.

Why ?

This sort of thing has happened to me before and l just dont understand - l really dont.

I even went back in later with my friend and l pointed out where l had stood and where she stood and there was no extra space or extra light or any other factor at all to explain why she chose that sink. Also l observed lady later interacting with her group and she seemed intelligent , polite etc etc.

Very puzzling and makes me more than a little l'm afraid.

Rant over.

I agree but I find toilet cubicle selection even weirder. If I choose the end cubicle of a row of 8 I expect the next person in to choose the other end cubicle, the next one to go in the middle of the two occupied ones etc.

One site we were on I felt I had a stalker. Every time I went to the loo someone came in and took the cubicle next to me. I was in trauma by the end of the week as I get stage fright :)

I can join in. Having picnic in field, middle of nowhere, but just off footpath. Some walkers decide to leave path, walk about 20 metres into field and spread themselves out within 5 metres of us. Bizarre.

It's the same people who choose to park next to you in an otherwise empty car park. Nobbers the lot of em!

yes it's weird isnt it ?

l mean do they do it to annoy you? - is it a PA thing? surely not and if so why ?

Laughing at both your replies, the toilet thing actually happened when friend and l were in there later on when l was showing her. We both went to the loo either end of row and a lady came into cubicle next door to me in a row of about 12. Again there was no-one else in there and my friend commented how that was another example of same thing really.

The picnic thing happened to us on a long empty stretch of beach on Greek island once. We laid out our towels,stuff etc then next thing we're practically shoulder to shoulder with this family with pushchairs the lot - 200yds empty beach either side !

Must be me - must have lots of magnetism

YANBU at all.

I also can't stand when you're standing somewhere (maybe a shop) there's plenty of room around you but somebody walks past you so close they brush past you. Why?!!

Strangely I find it's usually women too.

yup Nervous l get that one too Can hardly open my doors sometimes or have to wait to get out of my car till they have finished fannying around getting theirs straight etc.

i'm the same with trains and when people sit next to you and the rest of the carriage is empty. What's that all about.

I watched a restaurant prog once (reality/help for failing businesses type one) where there was an almost empty restaurant and the 2 couples in there were spread out at either end. The 'advisor/specialist' told the waiter off and said they should put all the people who come in next to each other 'to create atmosphere'. But when he tried to show people to tbles close to others they said no and asked to sit further away. The advisor knob said tell them no! they have to sit where you put them. I thought that's not good, i hate being in a restaurant and being able to hear others convos and having to whisper. Unless it's packed you need to be apart.

YANBU.

I have experienced this most on empty train carriages when someone decides to take the seat next to me or opposit me, when they had about 20 other empty spaces to choose from.

WHY do people do this!?

Oh yes Goofus or practically take your handbag with them if you are wearing a shoulder bag iykwim.

Yes folks that big black or red thing sticking out from me is actually attached to my shoulder - it is not suspended in mid air behind me - so when you catch it and drag it round the shop you are dragging me too.

HTH

the bloody cinema!

I never go to a new release cos i cannot bear Other People, but why when there is Me and Dh, in row whatever, do Mr and Mrs I-like-popcorn-I-do come and sit directly in front of us

and then Mr and Mrs Text-a-lot come and sit next to them!

oh and Mrs Harrassed and her wailing offspring arrive and sit on the edge so that Master Cries all the time can run up and down the stairs and Miss Needs-a-Wee can ask to go ALL THE TIME

and that's all nine of us in a squillion square foot cinema squeezed into five square feet.

ffs

Aha ! So that's why our local Italian does that then. Heres me thinking they asked to sit as close as possible to me in an empty restaurant. Oh well.

Cats so funny.

I dont even go to cinemas anymore find myself planning the perfect crime in the darkened cinema for those types and dont trust myself .

Whenever we used to go camping there would always seem to be a completely naked european woman washing her bum at the sinks when I went into the toilet blocks, and she would, without exception, try and engage me in conversation when I went to wash my hands!

Hooble

It's where to look really isnt it ?

We get the car parking idiots everywhere we go, we now have a fecking beast size multipla which is a twat to park in a narrow space, so we park out of the way, and get wrapped in between a fecking Ka and aygo, dp now parks over two spaces at the supermarket because he has joint problems and cannot twist and contort himself into the car.

Good for you - dont blame you at all. If you are deliberately parking out of the way it's not as if you are taking the last space is it by doing that. I'm thinking of some sort of electrical field around my person and anyone invades my space they get zapped.

That'll learn em.

But seriously l would love someone to really explain this to me. Why do people do this ?

Oh yes Maryz that one aswell - you know maybe it really is me .

We always sit on edge of sea practically and some bugger will squeeze between you and the sea.

'Err no - l think l actually sat here to look at the fantastic views of the gorgeous seemingly infinite blue sea. Not watch you and your other half rub suncream into each others nooks and crannies.'

HTH

between us and the sea - even.

This has happened to me too. The worst one was when I was driving on a motorway and realised that I had, er, tummy trouble. I made it to a service station and was very relieved to see about 30 empty cubicles. Of course I went to one at the very far end - to spare my blushes (stage fright really wasn't a problem at that particular moment ) and everybody else's aural senses. I hardly have to tell you which cubicle the next woman in chose .

Why? Why? I'm not an unsociable person but don't feel the need to sit on other people's knees while on the toilet, in the cinema, eating in a restaurant or sitting on a beach. So why can't everybody else piss off and leave me to poo/eat/watch a film and apply suncream in peace?

I took my dog for a walk in a big national park. I parked my car in one of the many car parks around and was the only car there. When I came back there was only my car and another car in the car park.

But the tosser had parked so close to my car I had to climb over the passenger seat to get in, I simply couldnt open my drivers door enough to squeeze in.

Why?????????????

some people are very self un-aware. me & dd were in an empty cinema, sat down in our seats. a man comes in with his son, and sits.....

right in front of us. idiot.

I went into the loos in a pub in Dublin and on my way in marvelled at the sheer number of toilet cubicles. It was HUGE - there must have been 20+ cubicles in there, and I was the only person using them (it was in the afternoon). Of course - of COURSE - the next person in went in the one next to me! Why?!

I'd love to know why people do this!

Yesterday I parked in a space in a car park and was getting dd out of her seat and into her buggy when someone came along and tried to park next to me and then just sat there staring at me and trying to hurry me up! There were loads of other spaces in the car park too.

I also get the cinema one, I am quite short and you can bet that the tallest person in the world sits in front of me!

One of these days I will go up to someone and ask them why

I know Galifrey me too. But the problem is it sounds so passive aggressive - doesnt it ?

I mean how do you ask that?

'Er excuse me I hope you dont mind me asking you ignorant fucker but I've always wondered why people twats like you choose to use the loo/sink/parking space next to normal people when there are rows of empty ones around you annoying bastard.

Trouble is l just know they would hear the deletions in my voice with me as l would say them out loud so it would end up in a toilet/beach or car park brawl.

Any psychologists on here ? These stories are making me laugh out loud and feel so much better it's not just me. But l would still really love to know why????