To not want to have to cuddle a sanitary bin every time I use a public loo?

[Deucebumps]

Just that really.

Used the loos at Waterloo station, when it occurred to me that the thing I hate most about public toilets is that the bins in cubicles are so intrusive. I wouldn't say I have a particularly large arse but I find myself leaning sideways trying to avoid said arse making contact with the sanitary bin. Surely if they just made them shorter and deeper so it sat below the level of the toilet seat they could hold the same volume of waste?

So AIBU or does this annoy anyone else....

Picture of the offender this morning in case anyone has no idea what I'm on about!

I agree with everything on here, but I am trying to work out how someone can manage to reach over a door and take a bag off the hook. Surely you'd have to be really, really tall to do that, or I suppose the cubicle could be short...

My kids are out of nappies now but yes to no loo in the baby change area. Best baby change I ever used had a bumbo to let you put the baby down while you had a wee. What luxury.

They should try to have larger toilet cubicles or smaller bins. They probably didn't think it through well. On that note, there is a disabled toilet at my local park but you can't even get a pushchair round the corner of the preceding toilets to get to it, let alone a wheelchair.

I seriously factored in the toilets on my pros and cons list when resigning from one job. The job was awful and the boss was a bully, but oh! the loos!

Huge cubicles, little rooms really, with solid floor to ceiling walls which almost entirely deadened all sound. Soft lighting in the cubicle, but good bright lighting over the sinks, and a full length mirror on the wall too.

I took several naps in those toilets. See, I still miss them, some 12 years later...

Very happy to see this thread. I have long hated this but I was blaming my large arse - - now I'm going to blame the patriarchy

In the best workplace I ever had, there was a cupboard in the loos with a set of names baskets inside for each of us to keep our tampons/spare tights/toothbrush in. Lovely. No more tampon up the sleeve on the way to the loo.

Also places where the only baby changing area is in the ladies' toilet. Grrr.

I hate those toilets that are fixed to the wall a few inches above the floor,rather than actually on the floor. Like the one in JsOtherHalf's photo. Being rather a heavyweight,I am always scared that they are going to fall off the wall! Thankfully,they are quite rare in public toilets. It seems to be hotels that favour them.

Just going to throw theatre toilets into the mix.

Obviously they can't redesign listed buildings or alter historical places too much but if they can fit a bar, ticket booths and a shop in them then surely someone can fit some extra loos in somewhere.

Usually about 6 ladies toilets available for a 1000-2000 capacity theatre. Split into two rooms so queue guaranteed. Always dark, always cobwebby, always the tiniest spaces you've ever seen.

Love old theatres. Loathe the men who designed them a hundred years ago. I hold a grudge.

Don't know if its been mentioned as I only read the first page. My biggest hate with toilets is when the baby changing room doesn't actually have a toilet. I have a 3 (almost 4) and 1 (almost 2) year old. Went into Tesco the other day, a large one. They had womens, mens, disabled toilets and a baby change room. Went to go in the baby change room and there was no loo . both DDS are potty trained but I need to go in the cubicle with them, especially youngest, to help with wiping etc. Couldn't go in the women's as I would have had to leave my pram and bags unattended and all three of us wouldn't fit in one cubicle! Ended up having to use the disabled toilets which I felt bad about. It was even worse when dd2 was still in nappies. You habe to go in the baby change room to change baby then take the older child and myself to a separate facility. Surely the baby change room should just have a toilet!!!

The issue I have with theatre toilets is that everyone goes in the interval so the cisterns can't refill as quickly as everyone is flushing. Unless you are first in they don't flush. Surely in the 21st century there could be a solution to this?!

A couple of years ago I saw some newly built facilities at a large cathedral. Really nice they looked, reasonable amount of space, plenty of dryers, automatic everything, large mirrors on the wall. BUT - all small individual basins and no shelf or side to put a bag on if you wanted to redo your hair or adjust your makeup or anything.

Our nearest Debenhams has a great baby change. Proper counter rather than a pull down shelf - ds hated those pull down shelves, would just scream on them - and a full size and a child size toilets. Spacious as well, plenty of room for a huge pram.

Small cubicles are annoying, and as I have a three year old who hates hand dryers I do wish more places would have paper towels as well. Even his nursery had hand dryers - he's told me he dries his hands on his jumper. I'm just pleased he is washing his hands.

Also hot water taps that are instantly so hot you could make a cup of tea with them.

I've always felt this way about prams and travel systems. They're so hard to manage, stiff, unwieldy and heavy....they seem too complex. I know I shouldn't complain since I'm not really skilled enough to design a better one but I do wish the women who were would get in on the act!

absolutely hate the bin thing. Before now ive relocated the bin to behind the door to use the toilet before replacing it back, wedged in between the toilet and the wall of the cubicle. don't even get me started on the 'squeezing past the door either. there was one time that I had to pull my leg over the loo on the way out

I moved to an office where the standard of the loos was held up as vastly superior to the office from whence I had come. Except -
the old office loo had a seperate shelf with mirror in addition to the mirrors behind the sinks so somewhere to put things down (other than just the door hooks). The new office toilets looked nicer but had a tiny useless shelf underneath some random paneling that would fit nothing, the taps were half under the mirror (which stuck out a bit) so couldn't be located without bending down to look or scrabbling around but the automatic soap dispenser was stuck on the mirror so would liberally deposit soap on your elbow if said scrabbling led to erroreous arm positioning. The worst bit was that the sinks were shaped like an inverted cube and therefore they had corners. These must have been impossible to properly clean because they were always a little bit manky.

I will concede no problems with the sanitary bins however and the doors were a good snug fit!

OP if you think that is bad don't go to the loos at Deaf Institute in Manchester. There is no room even to get yourself in never mind a sanitary container!!

If you want low level sinks you should go to the farm shop/restaurant near me. It's been beautifully refurbished- spacious cubicles, always clean, no overflowing sanitary bins by the loo. The sinks are at several different heights too, which is fantastic if you're, say, 5'5" or shorter.

If, like me however, you're 5'8", you have to sort of crouch at the highest sink to reach it. Makes me feel like a giant every time

The Wetherspoons pub near me had toilet cubicles that are so narrow, there is no room on the side walls for the toilet full dispenser. Guess where they have put it? Above the toilet - so when you are sat having a wee, you have to reach right up and behind you to get any loo roll!

And rarely is there a hook for your handbag..

SO annoying!

If I think its going to touch my arse I kick it out of the way.

I also have a bee in my bonnet over no hot water to wash hands probably form the fateful time DS had worms especially if they are the nearest toilets to a cafe.

I may of been writing 'no hot water' on the toilet check sheet in Dunelm toilets for ages...I wont use the cafe there.

So often the sinks are set into a counter of some sort but right at the back rather than at the front so you have to lean over the constantly wet counter to reach the taps and end up getting your clothes wet. If the sinks were further forward then the counter probably wouldn't get as wet and you could put your bag or whatever behind the sink.

Also agree with the the sinks being too high, I actually complained to Butlin's that the skyline toilets didn't have a single child friendly sink despite being a family holiday resort.

I thought of this thread whilst in the loos at paddington yesterday. There they are arranged in a circle, so the door was the narrowest part and the cubicle gets wider the further in you go, so it left plenty of space for the bin and loo roll dispenser.

Ah this thread speaks to me. I used the loos at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam earlier this year and it was amazing; huge cubicles, doors that opened outwards, hooks on the doors but also a big shelf at the back of the cubicle to put things on, everything beautifully clean and sparkly, and small no-touch sanitary bins. I felt like I was in complete luxury but it's actually kind of depressing really, it should be the least we expect. I hate the feeling of dread when I'm forced to use a public loo and I never know how bad it's going to be until I walk in.

Also a couple of people have mentioned the hot taps on sinks that immediately give you first degree burns when you try and wash your hands with them. The taps in my work loos do this and it drives me nuts! I end up having to use cold and I hate it.