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To use the disabled loo when I'm with my son?

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RestingBitch · 19/05/2017 17:06

My sons 9 months and obviously still in his pushchair. The majority of the time it's just me and him when I go into town/visit places. When I need the loo I get an attack of conscious, I normally use the disabled loo so I can bring him in with me.
Can't use a regular loo as I can't get him in the cubicle in his chair. Don't want to take him out of his pushchair and plonk him on the floor as the floors are manky and he will eat whatever is on the floor. He'll also probably try and crawl under the gap and interrupt someone else. Don't really like the idea of leaving him in his pushchair whilst I nip in the cubicle, so providing there isn't someone waiting for the disabled loos, AIBU to use them? I'm usually in and out and so far I've never encountered anyone waiting for one, or the impatient rattle of the door. If I am being unreasonable, short of pissing myself what's the options?

Not a troll, and don't work for any newspapers :).

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Sirzy · 21/05/2017 16:58

So now it's a potty training room too! Wonderful!

Cheepandorm · 21/05/2017 16:58

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JustAnotherSilentOldNumber · 21/05/2017 17:09

if there's 4 more pages of it and by your admission it's rhyming itsnt very good...Why waste your Sunday afternoon posting it?

Unfortunatly i'm very restricted in what i can do at the weekends because you and those like you make it hard for me to spend the day out.

They said it didn't matter and there hadn't been a need for me to rush or apologise

OKAY EVERYONE THE THREAD CAN END!!!!!

Someone waiting for a disabled toilet told this person it was okay, we now have proof from the mouth of someone who may or may not be disabled that it's okay!!!

The thread can end right here, Cheepandorm has proof, from one perosn that it's okay, there is no more need to debate. One person, who speaks for us all has said, and i quote, "t didn't matter and there hadn't been a need for me to rush or apologise", there we have it.

JustAnotherSilentOldNumber · 21/05/2017 17:11

Cheepandorm has spoken.

I'm not sure what else there is to say really, It's okay for the disabled toilet to be a potty training room isnt it.

JustAnotherSilentOldNumber · 21/05/2017 17:12

I repeat we now have proof, third hand from the mouth of someone who may or may not be disabled that it's okay!!!

streetface · 21/05/2017 17:12

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JustAnotherSilentOldNumber · 21/05/2017 17:12

Why feel bad, they are probably all putting their disability on right?

JustAnotherSilentOldNumber · 21/05/2017 17:14

And disabled people DID manage to get out before disabled toilets were invented

Yes and disablied people had their pad changed on floors too, they still do, what is your point?

JustAnotherSilentOldNumber · 21/05/2017 17:15

We already have undeniable proof it's okay to piss about in Disabled toilets, what more do we need?

JustAnotherSilentOldNumber · 21/05/2017 17:17

Now that we have proof, from Cheepandorm that using the disabled toilets is okay I'm going to have to totally change the words to that poem.

JustAnotherSilentOldNumber · 21/05/2017 17:18

Why not use it as a meeting place?

JustAnotherSilentOldNumber · 21/05/2017 17:18

Lots of room.

BeyondStrongAndStable · 21/05/2017 17:54

"Stop patronising disabled people to make yourselves look good"

Did you miss that a good chunk of people who are bothered by this are either disabled themselves or have disabled children?
I'm certainly not virtue signalling here!

BeyondStrongAndStable · 21/05/2017 17:55

Someone will have to edit my list from upthread now we have some new reasons...

PigletWasPoohsFriend · 21/05/2017 17:59

What a load of politically correct, precious, sanctimonious virtue signalling crap.

ODFOD

And disabled people DID manage to get out before disabled toilets were invented.

With extreme difficulty. I would only be able to go on extremly short trips. If I had gone out then as I do now I would have soiled myself.

Stop patronising disabled people to make yourselves look good.

I am a disabled person so don't speak for me. Stop being so condescending.

HTH.

Spikeyball · 21/05/2017 18:09

Don't attempt to speak for my disabled child streetface.

MaybeNextWeek · 21/05/2017 18:19

'They are there for the space, not so everyone can get in there super quick. ' Confused

'They are there for space'. There are such unaware people aren't there. That's up there with 'pop your suitcases or do a bit of breastfeeding they're there for everyone!'.

hobnobsaremyfavourite · 21/05/2017 18:22

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BeyondStrongAndStable · 21/05/2017 18:23

I may have missed it as I had to back off for a while, but I'm sure I still haven't seen any proof of disabled toilets being for everyone.

BeyondStrongAndStable · 21/05/2017 18:24

Legislative proof, that is. As I posted the evidence I could find (quote from the DDA upthread) that seems to say the opposite. And all.

JustAnotherSilentOldNumber · 21/05/2017 18:26

I still haven't seen any proof of disabled toilets being for everyone

Cheepandorm came out of one (After using it as a potty training room, like ya do) and found someone waiting, the perosn waiting said what she did was fine and she didn't need to rush.

JustAnotherSilentOldNumber · 21/05/2017 18:26

That's proof enough for this thread beyond

Dawndonnaagain · 21/05/2017 18:27

What a load of politically correct, precious, sanctimonious virtue signalling crap.
Gosh, What a lot of nasty bile.

Disability comes in many forms. It's as if all disabled people have no control over their bladders. They are there for the space, not so everyone can get in there super quick. And disabled people DID manage to get out before disabled toilets were invented.
Yes, my uncle with Polio did. Not far, not often. That was in the seventies. Before that, only on day trips, in a group with extra incontinence aids. Cor, a day trip to the seaside for the poor cripples.
Oh, and they're not just there for the space. Try a bit harder.

Stop patronising disabled people to make yourselves look good.
You've done a pretty good job yourself...

MaybeNextWeek · 21/05/2017 18:27

'And disabled people DID manage to get out before disabled toilets were invented.'
Think mums with dc did too but going by the helpless entitled bunch on here you'd never guess.