AIBU or are the ladies loos always disgusting

[Dustychandeliers]

I can be in some really nice restaurants or some really shitty pubs but one thing I always find are that the toilets are utterly disgusting! Whether that be toilet roll on the floor or an over whelming smell but I can’t be the only one to notice!

In Paris recently, ds2 had to use the most horrible loo. There was screwed up paper piled as high as the basin, which didn't work. This one was unisex and right by the Eiffel tower.

Think some of you are exaggerating - and in quite an offensive way. Ugh

But I have that dream too. How strange. I also hate it.

rosy71 Rosewhitetips... I'm so relieved other people have that horrible dream !!! Kind of reassuring it's not just me ! I love Mumsnet!

Maybe it’s a location thing!

I’ve never encountered a loo that was left in an unpleasant state! The very worst place was at a football ground before there were many women and whilst clean the door wasn’t attached and you just kind of had to block the aperture with it

@GiraffeObsessedBaby so glad it's not just me who has discovered this. Was litter picking up used sanitary towels galore last night....why???? Also a full nappy just left smack bang in the middle of the toilet floor.

I use disposable loo seat covers! Especially for toddler.

I can understand how toilets get in a state though. When you're trying to a nappy in a tiny cubicle, with toddler standing on the loo lid, it's not different to get bodily fluids on the walls. Likewise when small child unlocks the door mid mooncup emptying, you have to lunge forward and grab them! Toddlers also yank loo paper streams while you're on the loo and do things like wee on th floor before you can get them on the loo.

I think the answer is bigger cubicles, with antibacterial wipes in every cubicle so you can clean up properly before exiting. Trying to soak up a puddle of wee with loo paper is impossible!

I often sit there after using it looking around thinking “none of these people look like their capable of leaving such a mess”

I think a lot of it, paradoxically, is people who are precious/grossed out by toilets being dirty. If you think about it hovering above the toilet while you go/wipe, not wanting to touch the flusher so doing short/no flushers, not wanting to touch the bin etc. would explain a lot of it. Also makes sense of how such naice middle class places have such minging bogs.

Be thankful you never have to deal with this: www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/viral-video-man-battling-enormous-1909397

Myself and DH used to work for a company that services washroom equipment in every type of establishment you can imagine; pubs, restaurants, clubs, hospitals, shops, factories, public, staff.

Having spent a ridiculous amount of time working is washrooms are in complete agreement that more than half of all toilet areas are minging and that 90% of the time the ladies are far worse than the men's.

The worst I've found are disabled loos when the main toilets are on another floor, mostly Wetherspoons type places. My local one has the disabled next to the kids play area and the main loos upstairs so parents just send their kids in unsupervised. It can be horrific, people I'm with can pop up to the normal, average loos according to them while I'm stuck trying to wipe crap off of the rails and get across a wet floor covered in damp loo roll while kids bang on the door and try to get in. Urgh.

Where I work I use customer toilets as they're cleaner than the staff. In the ladies staff toilet I have even seen the words, company is shit.. Written in exactly that.!
Ladies sanitary items not in bin etc..

The cleaners only clean once a day, where as customer ones are hourly.

Funny thing is. In staff area, you walk past men's loo and they don't smell half as bad as the ladies.

Ladies loo in a nightclub...cubicle floors covered in wee and used toilet paper. Vile.

I was a cleaner in huge office block with a number of very well known companies for many years and and used to regularly refuse to clean the men's. Used condoms, porn mags, shit splattered all over the place, snot smeared all over the cubicle doors, dirty underwear, empty coke bags.....someone once shit all over the floor and left me a note saying "sorry, it was curry Friday" with a smiley face, they'd even joke as I walked along with my cart that it was chilli or whatevrr that day in the canteen. I'm convinced the condoms and porn were deliberately left in sight, some sort of 'stamp' and the men enjoyed the thought of me having to clean it up as it kept happening. Someone once left a fiver on the side, it was only after I picked it up I realised it was deliberately smeared in shit on the other side.

So no, ime the men's are by far the most disgusting vile toilets I've ever had the misfortune to clean.

I always comment on these threads.
My poor DH is a full time cleaner for a big supermarket chain. He does the big morning clean including toilets, and cleans the toilets every hour during the day.
A good day is when people shit up the walls in the toilets and barely mentions this to me any more as it is normal for him to find shit in sinks, on the floor, up the walls. Dirty sanitary pads and blood is also found all over the place.
Last week he came home and told me about the person who shit in the lift, trod in it and walked it round most of the store.
People are animals and I doubt they do it in their own homes.

I don't get why people need to leave loo roll all over the floor.

And smearing poo up the sides of the cubicle. I mean why would you do that?

@runningkeenster

I think mostly cause they're arseholes that thinks it's someone else's job/problem

I think a lot of women must close the lid, flush and then not check to see if it has actually flushed properly.

Short flushes are pretty useless if any toilet paper is involved and it's annoying in a busy toilet where the tank isn't adequately filled between each flush.

Women's toilets do get more wear and tear. Sitting to wee, paper used every time, periods, more small children, more use from weakened pelvic floors. Absolutely no excuse for deliberately vandalising them with human waste though

I long for the days when I used to work in an office that had glorious toilets. Good lighting over the sinks, but softer lighting in the well proportioned cubicles, proper full length doors that shut tight and muffled any noise in or out. Enough room for the sanitary bin so you weren't sitting half on it, proper toilet paper, not those little inter-folded squares or huge rolls that break off every 3mm....Ahhhhhhhh!

And even better, there was a set on an unused floor that were deserted. I may or may not have had several power naps in them

If I ever do architecture as a second career I am going to specialise in toilets, and market heavily to female management and environments. I'll do one as a sort of gateway drug then I will cash in on the addicts and make my fortune. BWAHAHHHHAAAAAHHHH!

I will then plough said fortune into toileting and hygiene facilities for women in developing countries. Maybe some kind of week spa for when they have their periods, instead of grotty little huts.

Most public loos are disgusting. I only use them if I am absolutely bursting. The last time I went into the women's loos at a service station I just had to walk out. I would rather pee in the hedgerow. I agree about hospital loos too- they are rank. I always wash my hands and antibac them after I have touched the door handles to get out when I have used the office loo too.

Another one who very rarely finds sights like this. The toilets at work are fine - occasionally the toilet needs flushing or has skid marks in it, but nothing that would stop you using it after flushing. Public toilets can be a bit whiffy but again nothing that would stop you using them.

That searching for a loo dream. I often have this. Once I found a usable loo in the dream and very satisfyingly relieved myself, only to discover I was actually still in bed.