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.

Umm, I used to do this. The only 'rules' I had for multiple occupancy were all about sharing, queueing, not hogging the space, etc. So I automatically took the next space along. Eventually someone said something much like all your posts here, so I asked what the accepted procedure is! I was told to leave one space.

I'm now realising I should go right the other end - I've got to say that feels like being rude Wouldn't it be implying that you're so vile/smelly/scary, I need to keep my distance?

BTW, I plonk my stuff down on the next train seat, basin, whatever. I move it when things get crowded.

Oh, cheers, Jins, now I'm brain damaged

The environmental psychology course that I did included studies from the 50's (I think) that looked how people used a doctor's waiting room. If there was a line of chairs the first person would sit at one end, the next at the other end, the next equidistant between the two and so on until someone had to sit next to someone else. They tested it by letting two people in. One sat at each end. The next person in was told to sit right next to one of the people already there. Stress levels in the person they sat next to rose dramatically and interestingly the person at the other end became stressed too, presumably because someone was breaking a social convention. It was concluded that people naturally did this to protect their personal space.

Time passes and I guess fifty years later things have changed.

Not for the better for the people on this thread though

Sorry garlic

That's okay, Jins.

Yeah, I reckon all those annoying space invaders come from similarly large families and regimented schooling.

Or ... we are all out to get you! Mwahahaha!

I have had such a laugh at this thread!

Especially the picnic-ers putting their blankets right next to others, the woman washing her vag at the sink and making conversation, and the costa coffee loons!

Have to say when people stand too close behind me in queues I have started shuffling back ever so slightly, getting closer & closer till they HAVE to move away, works wonders