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!

YANBU, it's bloody horrible lol

my pet hate is baby changing rooms that dont have a loo in them, if you in there with a pram you dont want to then go to the ladies loo and leave the child outside the loo. why just not put a loo in there so that mums and dads can have a wee, must be even worse if you a dad with a daugther and you have to take your daughter into the mens and they are at an age where they are asking questions

YANBU! I also hate my thigh rubbing up against a sanitary bin.

I also hate those new big round tissue dispensers, where the tissue comes out the middle. 9 times out of 10 there is no paper to grasp and loads inside. Arrrgh!

In our shopping centre there is a spacious, pram friendly family room. It has 2 baby changes with space to put stuff, a private space at the end for breastfeeding and a toddler cubicle with toilet and sink, which has a little door, so parents can see what's going on. It's fab except for the fact there is no adult toilet, so I have to go to the ladies and leave pram outside door and cram us into a tiny space.

I also hate sinks set into counters that are flooded with water and are too awkward to lift a child up to.

OMG this makes me remember an incident years ago in a pub/hotel. The cleaners were Polish and spoke to each other in their language, which I tried to discourage. Then I found out they had been emptying out the sanitary bins (we had a company employed to do this). Poor girls I still feel bad about it to this day although it had been going on for years before I worked there.

My pet hate is the stupid taps that you press the top of to use. Firstly they are sodding hard to push, too hard for a child. Secondly, as soon as you have pushed them the water stops, leaving you no time at all to wash your hands.

Also, baby changes that have no room for a pushchair, let alone a double one. The one at the Thomas Lincare Centre in Wigan is guilty of this as is the new one at the Bolton market place shopping centre.

The Trafford Centre's baby change near the food court is awful for getting pushchairs in, you open the door and there is an immediate corner.
Best toilets/baby change is John Lewis at the Trafford Centre. There's even a push button sutomatic door for the baby change.

I dreamt last night that I was trying to use a loo in a restaurant that was wedged between a bidet, a toddler loo, a sanitary bin and the wash basin. I didn't have room to sit on the loo properly and weed all down my own leg! The bidet kept setting itself off while I was trying to use the loo. I then dreamt I was posting about it on this thread! This thread is clearly getting to me!!

My husband works in commercial construction from the planning stage and works closely with architects etc. I am going to raise this issue with him today and tell him to start raising it as an issue when planning new toilets.

On the whole I find newer toilets less of an issue but I agree it is rank to be close to manky sanitary bins.

"my pet hate is baby changing rooms that dont have a loo in them"

Sometimes they put a sink in there though. Just saying.

One odd one which seems to be peculiar to Darlington, both in Binns and the Dolphin centre: Soap dispensers only at the end of the row of sinks, so you absent mindedly start wetting your hands then end up trailing water everywhere to find soap!

I'm thinking a man designed that loo.

Small loo cubicles = designed by men! I'm a building's engineer so always pointing out the bleeding obvious to men (no pun intended!). The main problem is the Client always tries to get as much in for as little cost and for the least amount of floor space possible. We do a lot of school design and yet very little storage space allowed. We find loads of stuff blocking boiler houses, creating fire hazards because the Client won't allow for sufficient storage space.

Yes you are being unreasonable!
Think of the thousands of others who, like me, have to change stoma bags. Would you like us to carry them around and dump them in a public area? No you wouldn't.
Moan about the size of cubicles by all means, but not about an essential item for so many of us.

Totally agree!! It's just a bum-cheek violation as far as I'm concerned😱
Having just come back from hols, there's nothing like this abroad. However I do appreciate our Roman-esque plumbing and being 'allowed' to pop your loo roll in the loo, as apposed to the bin beside it!!! Yuuuukkkkkk 😜😉😂

Similarly, you can work out when a man has decided where to put the loo roll holder. If it's a foot behind you when you're sitting down, a bloke put it there. If it's where you can see and reach it, a woman did.

In a shopping centre in a city where I used to live there was a ridiculous design of five/six loos and just one combined sink/hand dryer. If two ladies finish using the loo at the same time only one of them can wash their hands immediately, the second lady waits patiently and walks away shaking her wet hands while a third bowls up and doesn't bother as she's waited too long in the first place. Inconvenient or what?

I would rather 'cuddle' one of the bins than swim into someone else's sanitary protection at the seaside.

Agree that it's not just you OP.

Although of course if we all used Mooncups this wouldn't be a problem at all :p

I hate this too!! Unfortunately I have many health conditions which mean that I am on so many pills per day I rattle as I walk. This has lead me to balloon up to almost the width of a cubicle door (there are little bits of cubicle wall either side of said door, so I'm not quite the size of a cubicle - YET!!!), but I find that I end up with half of my thigh/butt cheek sitting on the toilet and the other half on the sanitary bin when they are the same height. It makes me feel so sick and I tend not to drink much when I go out incase I need the loo!!

I also hate it when there is no hook for your handbag, but I also use a walking stick and sometimes that ends up slipping down the wall to the dirty floor! Like many of you have said, there's not enough room to swing a cat, let alone trying to pull your self together, grab your bag/s and then anything that's fallen to the floor - All whilst trying to avoid the sanitary bin/toilet seat and any 'dirty' walls!!!

To be honest girls, reading some of these replies has made me tear up a little because I thought it was just me that had the problem with sharing my thigh/butt with the bin - since ballooning to double my size since being ill!! I feel a little better now x

Oh I'm so glad someone's brought this up! Using a public toilet is like negotiating an obstacle course.

I object to cleaning the seat with my skirt. My mum used to complain about this too. Mirrors are also a bugbear. Nowhere gets 10 out of 10 without a full length mirror. And handdryers that dont work. Now you've got me going.

Yadnbu. I hate it!!!

Julie24 I think you've misunderstood

Of course there should be bins, and places you can dispose of sanitary items/stoma bags/nappies ect. My AIBU is that there should be sufficient room in the cubical for my arse and the bin to coexist peacefully without having to touch!

This annoys me too!! Especially the door dance trying to get into a cubicle with a toddler, a big bump and a hand bag whilst avoiding the massive loo roll holder. I'm not joking when I say I occasionally have to contort myself to get in the bloody thing!

Yes, absolutely rank!! Along with most features of public toilets!

I'm a bit of a fussy cah when it comes to planting my arse on a loo seat.

I have never ever sat on a public toilet seat and have no intention of ever doing it either.

I do the very unladylike squat and whilst I appreciate that's not the norm, that's what me and the lady folks in my family do.

I honestly couldn't bring myself to sit on a public toilet seat.... just the thought alone makes me gag.