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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 :).

OP posts:
JustAnotherSilentOldNumber · 21/05/2017 20:58

Who suggested it being in the ladies?

BeyondStrongAndStable · 21/05/2017 21:00
Confused
JustAnotherSilentOldNumber · 21/05/2017 21:06

Also a problem for those suggesting putting it on the moon.

McTush · 21/05/2017 21:10

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JustAnotherSilentOldNumber · 21/05/2017 21:13

One is well withing normal healthy ability for age, so not disabled, the other isn't.

It's not rocket science.

SynysterGates · 21/05/2017 21:13

Mctush that is vile and disablist

JustAnotherSilentOldNumber · 21/05/2017 21:14

One can be lifted and taken into a cubical, the other can not

BeyondStrongAndStable · 21/05/2017 21:15

There is plenty of space on the moon for pushchairs and suitcases...
Bit inconvenient if you're a "just a quick wee"-er though

MaybeNextWeek · 21/05/2017 21:16

'One is well withing normal healthy ability for age, so not disabled, the other isn't.It's not rocket science.'

Yes how odd to consider it to be the same situation Confused

PigletWasPoohsFriend · 21/05/2017 21:17

The above describes both my severely disabled mother and your average 9 month old.

Great so now I am being compared to a 9month old.

Great.

How vile and low can you sink

PigletWasPoohsFriend · 21/05/2017 21:17

Actually that has really upset me. Angry

BeyondStrongAndStable · 21/05/2017 21:18

My life - as an autistic wheelchair user with continence issues - has actually just been compared with a nine-month old baby. Lovely.

JustAnotherSilentOldNumber · 21/05/2017 21:19

Second class people

BeyondStrongAndStable · 21/05/2017 21:19

And I'm (and others) the unreasonable one for getting angry

🙄

PurpleDaisies · 21/05/2017 21:20

What an absolutely disgusting comment mctush.

MaybeNextWeek · 21/05/2017 21:21

I think Mctush demonstrates perfectly how some people are just unable to problem solve logically. Disabled mother? Use accessible toilets. Young dc? then you and the thosuands of other parents unstrap dc and go to the toilet.

BeyondStrongAndStable · 21/05/2017 21:21

Nobody report that, leave it to stand so people can see it.

Not that 99% of people read the thread when they plop in to say YANBU Hun

mychilddoesntlookdisabled · 21/05/2017 21:21

Mctush that post is disgusting. And the fact that you posted it means you don't get it. At all.

JustAnotherSilentOldNumber · 21/05/2017 21:23

Second class lives.

BeyondStrongAndStable · 21/05/2017 21:24

Are you okay piglet? :(

McTush · 21/05/2017 21:26

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PigletWasPoohsFriend · 21/05/2017 21:31

Are you okay piglet?

I will be thank you. Just fed up of these sorts of attitudes that's all and this has hit a raw neve.

BlurryFace · 21/05/2017 21:31

I've only ever used the disabled loo when it's been where the baby change facility is (and only for that purpose).

I regularly have a 2yo in a buggy and 3yo on foot, the buggy gets left outside the cubicles and the 3yo gets squished in the cubicle with me as I wouldn't put it past him to bugger off and he is scared of the hand dryers. When they were younger, they were both left outside in the double buggy. It's never occurred to me to go to the disabled loo just so I can fit a buggy in there.Hmm

Justbreathing · 21/05/2017 21:33

Why can't you just wee with the door open with your child in front of you.
I mean. What woman gives a fuck about seeing someone having a wee, whilst they needfully have their child in a pram in front of them.
People are too prude for words
I haven't read the whole thread and the tangent it's taken so I might be out of place!

Ollivander84 · 21/05/2017 21:33

People around here seem to ask others. I went into town today and a woman asked me if I could watch her baby (asleep in pram) while she went to the toilet. I did, she came back and said thanks, no problem (pram was right outside the entrance to ladies)
Maybe I just look approachable!?