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!

Deucebumps
I don't think I did misunderstand......Your moan was about sanitary bins NOT the size of the cubicle.
You may have MEANT to moan about cubicle size, but that is not what you said. You specifically said you didn't want to cuddle a sanitary bin. This may be semantics but that is what you said.

julie it's bleeding obvious that the moan is about the size of that sanitary bin, so close to the toilet. It's too tall, at the width it is, for that tiny space. No moans were made about the fact that they exist in the first place. There are plenty of shorter sanitary bin options for gaps that narrow, even if a more generously sized cubicle is mere wishful thinking.

The sanitary bin in the OP is more generously sized than the ones that Debenhams have in their accessible loos - I often have fun trying to force one of my (not small) child's used pads into one of those. They usually have a massive bin for paper towels, though

Julie you're right, I said I didn't want to cuddle a bin. But I never said or implied that there shouldn't be a bin at all

Having to lift up your 4 year old to use the sink. With a bad back. And then she child gets a soaking from the forceful taps...

Don't interior designers think about a proportion of the customers being bloody tiny?!

Is it just me that struggles with this?'

I agree that baby changing rooms should have a loo for mums, second siblings (we love Gloucester services loos and John Lewis family toilets). we used cloth nappies a lot of the time and the poop needs to go in the loo before you take the nappy home.

At least there was a loo to use! Public toilets are becoming a rarity

At work we have a loo where the pedal of the sanitary bin is facing the wall! So if you want to use it you have to make a real effort. The cleaner is a man (surprise surprise)...

Also, have you ever seen sanitary bins with Braille on them? WTF?.. Would you really touch it, really?..

The loos where you're desperate, queue up for ages and get in to find the lock doesn't work, so try and keep the door shut with your hand/foot/any body part while you take your pants down, pee and then pull your pants back up!

I run a venue in a very old building with tiny loos and we request the slimline sani bins as we are well aware of the unpleasantness of getting up close and personal with them. Unfortunately the sani bin company keep swapping them out again until we complain.

I'm starting to think that aside from cubicle size the bin size is a problem.
most toilets in europe have a small round pedal bin. so you have a in even in the tiniesr of spaces but you don't half sit on it.

why is that not an option in uk?

SecretNutellaFix

what you said - and unfortunately I have all 3 at my office loos!!!

I expect ours are bigger so they don't have to be emptied as often, in the same way as other countries seem to manage far more frequent rubbish collections than we do.

I went to a public toilet on a hen do once and got completely stuck because of the sanitary bin. Going into the cubicle I needed to do a few tricky manoeuvres but then getting out I realised the door actually brushes past the toilet seat, the only way to get out is to be a really skinny person and stand in the tiny bit of space the door doesn't hit or surgically remove your knees. I ended up having to lift the skanky sanitary bin up and over the toilet to the other side and wiggle my bottom into the tiny gap between the paper dispenser, toilet and the stain covered wall, just to be able to open the door - then climb back over it all in full view of the people queuing. I did hear a few comments about my fat arse but ignored them while crying into the sink washing my hands! I try to avoid public toilets like the plague now

Julies comment has got me thinking, slightly off-topic. What on earth do men do if they need to change stoma bags etc? As far as I am aware there are no bins in the men's loo except possibly a basket for paper towels.

What on earth do men do if they need to change stoma bags etc?

that's what the disabled toilets are for.

Oh yes of course. Feel a bit daft now!