to think it would be common courtesy and common sense to that? possibly tmi.

[someonestolemynick]

To put a bin next to the toilet.

This makes me irrationally angry: My job involves going to people's houses. Normally I will be with them between a and 4 hours, so occasionally I will have to use their toilet.
Today I'm on my period and have quite heavy flow. I was on a longer job (3hrs) and bled through my tampon. I discovered that there was no von in the bathroom. Just to be clear. I try to avoid having to change my tampon in client's houses by changing in public loos, McDonald's or Starbucks and carry scented plastic bags with me tobwrap the offender in when I have to do it at someone's house.
So, anyway, i was in the very awkward position of having a soaked tampon and no way of getting rid of it. I was in charge of a very young child - so no way of nipping out to the bins or a pub (to use the loo) and ended up stemming the flow with toilet paper and going back to working with their dc for another hour.
I will not flush a tampon down the loo because I don't want to block the clients toilet.

So, aibu to ask you all to provide a bin for female visitors?

Oh, looks like the internet pixies hid several pages and people have already answered (some of) my question, sorry

I am amazed how long this thread has run for. Who knew tampon disposal could be so fascinating and controversial?

I've explained my waste disposal habit at length julfin, but am up for questions if you have any.

Can I ask you one? You did a strike through on a very long sentence. That would take me more time than rummaging through my rubbish. Why did you do that?

I must confess that I hate the strike-through more than creepy wee brackets.

The only dual-compartment bins I've ever seen have been massive ones for the kitchen.

The hotel I was in a couple of weeks ago had a duo bin, one with a recycling logo on. Just right for the bathroom, so they do exist.

Thanks pipbin, good to know

Limitedperiodonly - the strike-through doesn't take longer for a sentence than it does for a single word. I'd estimate that it's a fraction of a second at the beginning and another fraction of a second at the end. Which is nothing really, when you compare it to the amount of time I've invested learning about complete strangers' waste disposal solutions over the last day or so. Out of interest, what do you mean by "creepy wee brackets"?

This thread took an interesting turn while I was away.

Never have I learned so much about individual rubbish disposal habits . [Grin]

Striking through involves putting and up against the first and last words of either a word or a sentence, Limited. The amount of time involved in typing two double hyphens is the same no matter how long the sentence is.

The simplest and probably the cheapest solution is to take your occasional recyclable out of the bathroom with you, imo, Julfin.

These are julfin. For those of a minimalist bent, they are just .

I don't like strikethroughs because I find trying to remember to put double hyphens at the beginning and end of every word in a long sentence -very time consuming and also a bit too -try hard -and many people including me fuck- it up.

You don't have to put the double hyphens through every word unless you want to make work for yourself.

All you have to do to strike through a sentence is put your double hyphens before the first letter of the first word and after the last letter of the last word. No hyphens are necessary anywhere else. All the words in between the sets of double hyphens get stricken through (struck through?) in one fell swoop.

What you appear to be doing with the strikeouts is the word processing equivalent of going through your bathroom bin to sort out waste from recyclables, when you could easily take the odd recyclable out of the bathroom with you and leave the bin for whatever else people may want to dispose of there.

Ha Math spot on!

Actually I don't use double hyphens at all; I use the font change button on the app, which involves half as many clicks.

Even better!