To feel so so so sorry for this woman? (Poo related - sorry!)

[FiveSugarsPlease]

Just back from the supermarket with dd.

While we were there, I took her to the shop's toilet. There's only 3 tiny cubicles. I put dd in one and stood outside with my hand in the door. Two young women came in and waited behind me on one of the cubicles freeing up. A woman in her mid-twenties came out of the large/disabled one and squeezed by to wash her hands. The two young women both went in the large cubicle.

As soon as they got in they exclaimed, "OMG, it's stinking in here!", "There's shit all over the seat", "I'm going to be sick" "Some people have no shame" etc etc.

Meanwhile, the woman who had just used that toilet continued to wash her hands - her face scarlet, eyes welling up - hearing every word!

I know I should have said something, but what? All I could do was mutter 'Hurry up, DD, we need to go', pretending I couldn't hear the two women in the large toilet.

Why would they do that so loudly? Did they intend to hurt that woman's feelings?

I could understand children doing it (my dd is terrible for it!), but not adults.

I'd suggest she may have done her best to clean up an explosive situation and would have let customer services know on her way out. Her embarrassment being evident to you implies she knew but what can you do when other people are waiting. It's not always that easy to laugh it off.

I've flooded a hotel bathroom before after having a very, very poorly tummy. Now that was embarrassing when I had to ring the front desk and they sent someone up to clean a bathroom flooded with shit in the early hours.

The first thing I thought was 'oh lord, what of there was no loo roll?'

Imagine lady has unfortuneately tummy and accident, reaches to the big metal loo roll holder, and finds... Air and hollow metal. Reaches in handbag, no more tissues, not a wipe in sight...

She has to walk out knowing what the loo is like but unable to clean it... Would have gone into other cubicle to raid loo roll and commence clean up, but someone else is there, so she washes hands and prepares to go whisper embarrassedly to customer services, but before she can two nasty woman come in and humiliate her, hence the welling up and look of horror/ upset. She legs it.

Could that have happened? In which case I have so much sympathy for the poor woman.

If it was all that bad, chances are she had a tummy bug or food poisoning and felt bloody awful anyway.

Childish to make such a fuss though. Completely unnecessary. I'm sure the seat wasn't completely covered. Why didn't they just back out if it was so offensive?

At least it wasn't a hole in the ground type one as per french camping sites circa 1975. Now, there's a sight/smell you'll never forget!

I feel sorry for the woman if she was upset, but I think you have to expect to be made to feel embarrassed if you leave shit on a public toilet seat when you could have cleared it.

Yes, the girls could have been more discrete, but I don't think they did anything that bad by talking to each other about the toilet being in a state if it was left in a state.