To dislike public toilets

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After reading another thread about someone doing their business on a cubicle floor it's strengthened my dislike. I try not to use them and prefer to hold on until I can get home. Obviously there have been instances when I've had to use one (during my pregnancies being one) but I find them awful. Most round me bloody stink to high heaven, often haven't been flushed and are clogged with toilet paper and often floaters :confused:

If in the event I have to use one I can't bear to sit on the seat either (I probably sound like Finch in American pie when he covers it with toilet paper). I tend to squat over the seat rather than sit.

You should try having to go in a Gents. Pissing on a shelf alongside 3 other chaps, boak.

I'm with you there, I wait till I get home than have to use public toilets.

When we go on holiday abroad I only use to loo in our apartment/hotel room (can't tell you how much strain there was on my bladder when we went to Gambia ! )

I don't like public loos either ... If I gave to use one in town I often go to the one in debenhams as there is always a cleaner in there mopping floors and cleaning sinks .

My son has a real issue using the ones at his school too he holds in poo all day and waits until he gets home and he's straight up those stairs

I did used to carry domestos wipes with me but not so much now as I found myself clearing up other peoples puss before I say down bluergh !!

YANBU my kids seem to have an obsession with them and I can't take the chance even though most times they don't actually do anything

I'm always relieved when a place has an M&S as generally their toilets aren't too bad!

I agree. I check out a toilet before using it. If it is dirty, I will wait until I get home or find a cleaner one. I would never poo in a public toilet either. Too many times I've found blood/poo splatters on the seats and cisterns. It's just disgusting. Every public toilet should have some antibacterial wet wipes in there too so you can wipe down the area after use.

YANBU I can't stand them either!! Would much rather hang on if poss and use my own nice clean loo.

I find them generally smelly and dirty and don't like touching the loo seat or even door handles/soap dispensers and taps lol I promise I'm not a complete weirdo!

I was like this from a very young age apparantly - would check to see if I though toilets were clean before using them. As a child I also had a phobia of black loo seats because I thought they were dirty

And don't get me started on loos on trains eeew!! Thankfully I rarely travel on trains and when I do I try to use toilets at stations where you pay as these tend to be slightly cleaner.

Hmm reading this back perhaps I am a weirdo

Actually I find very few public toilets are truly disgusting anymore.

I use a loo when I need one. Wash my hands carefully, wash my hands again at home.

No problems.

try a back packing tour around Asia,

When you get back you will love our public toilets.

You should try Festival toilets! Although some are slightly better these days. I went into one once and no lie there was a mountain of poo rising out of the loo! I have no idea how people could do that.

I dislike the public toilets in the nearest town to me. You have to be a contortionist to use them. The door swings to within an inch of the toilet bowl, so getting in requires the user to stand between the bowl and the toilet roll holder, only there isn't really enough room to do this. I have to put my feet on the floor at the side of the toilet, and adopt a strange crouched posture so that I avoid bashing my lower back on the loo roll dispenser, while allowing the door room to open and close.

I do wish the people who design these loos would allow space for the user to get in and out of the cublicle without having to form a far-too-close-for-comfort embrace with the toilet bowl.

Quoteunquote...quite!they don't know they re born.

Ynbu
I do use them but some of them stink to high heaven and the hand driers are rubbish. I would prefer to pay ten pence to go to a clean one with am attendant.

OP You wouldn't have this problem in our area.
The council has closed most of them down :(

There's nothing like your own loo in your own house IMO.

YANBU.

If you had started a thread 'AIBU to like public toilets' well, then YWBU. Because, frankly, that would be a little odd.

Ten pence? You'd be lucky to find an attended toilet that cheap these days, they're all 30p round my way.

no your not. may go to concert on fri with chemical toilets boak.

always obssess about toilets but usually they are ok where I go.

I like the usa as loos are usually reasonable.

Sadly there is a sizable minority of people out there who are fucking animals when it comes to public conveniences. Never really understood why some people feel the need to piss on the floor, seat or toilet roll or use their own turds as crayons. Try and avoid them as much as I can unless it is an emergency, in which case I use the throne at home.

I don't mind using them, especially for a stand-up wee, but I hate having to flush, then turn the taps on and unlock the door. I wash my hands thoroughly, then wrap them in loo roll to flush and unlock. Once the door is open, I hold it with my foot, then swivel and throw the loo roll down the loo.

I am a habitual nail biter, so I worry about touching where other people's pissy hands have been. And yes, I realise there's no escape from germs, handling money etc.

Sallyingforth I doubt anyone will miss them. The toilets in shopping centres are much better.