to expect people and their kids not to wee (or worse) outside my house

[gingerone]

I have had it! I am so angry and my dh thinks i am being unreasonable. I live on a nice street, full of nice people, just off a main arterial road to a theme park for young kids (less than a mile away). I am absolutely fed up of people pulling into our street, getting their kids out of the car and letting them wee in the gutter. I live no more than 200 yards from shops / pubs and no more than 600 yards from public toilets. I have 4 and 6 yr olds and have never ever ever weed in a gutter in front of someone's house.

Yesterday I lost it totally with a woman who parked up, got her daughter out and disappeared onto the grass verge to let her poo. This is totally unacceptable. The woman kept saying she was sorry and she would clean it up BUT THAT IS NOT THE POINT. The point is it is totally disrespectful and downright rude to do it. How do you think my 86 year old neighbour feels when she looks out of her window and sees this happening?

BTW, if you are on here lady from yesterday, it was only because I had my daughter with me that I let you get away so lightly.
This is winding me up so much at the moment.

Well, I'm guessing that since you live near a theme park you get a lot of out of town visitors - people who don't know that there are close public toilets/pubs ??

I wouldn't mind - when you gotta go - besides my dog poos outside (obvously) and I clean that up.

So, generally I think you are being unreasonable - however I understand its bugging you as it goes on ALL the time outside your house.

hummm.
Well, I can see its a bit foul for you.

But do you think people know about the public loo (presumably if you're near a theme park, lots of these people are not local?And/or are arriving after longish journeys?) Is the loo a paying one, or free? I've let ds wee in the gutter on occassions when I don't know of a local toilet/he's desparate (he's 3.5). I would always try & find a place that was a way from houses, but that hasn't always been possible.

Don't think I'd let him poo (unless I had a plastic bag he could poo straight into - actually, I have done this at the side of a motorway rather than having him poo in his carseat )

Perhaps you could ask the council to make the public loo signs more prominant?

So we are just off the main roundabout, there are signs saying 'town centre', 'parking', you can see a petrol garage, the theme park is no more than 5- 10 minutes away.

I have kids, I understand they need to go, but not outside my house

well I've got 4 children and we've never needed to poo on a grass verge - so I think you are not at all unreasonable about that.

as for the weeing, sometimes with young children you do just have to do it by a road (although we have only generally had to do it on motorways where there is a long time between service stations not in front of people's houses). All you can do I think is ask the council to make the signs for public loos more visible.

sorry, but why do signs saying town centre & parking help I'd avoid a town centre with a kid who needs to wee NOW Does the agarage have public loos (lots don't now... )

When a kid needs to go it needs to go! Never had to resort to that myself but would rather that than her pooing in the car.

It's very simple. You go out there with a camera and you take a picture. (not really, but you aim the camera and make sure they see you) or lean out of the window with your camera and yell "SAY CHEESE"

Or you yell at the top of your voice, out of the window "THE TOILETS ARE THAT WAY, THIS IS NOT A TOILET, OI, LADY IN THE GREEN COAT, YOU ARE PEEING IN THE WRONG PLACE"

now dd has never had to poo anywhere but a toilet, but i know her habits and when she is likely to poo.

however while potty training and still sometimes now, i have needed to let her wee on grass verges/in gutters, especially as i dont drive, so when walking places it obviously can take a while to get to public toilets.

am always quite about doing it, but id prefer that than having her get distressed by wetting herself!

i think yabu about weeing but pooing in the middle of the street is a bit

Well, let's hope none of you guys get outside my house with your kids.

Never heard of kids pooing in the street; surely that's not a regular thing?

Have no problem with my ds weeing in the street. Obviously if there's a toilet (that we know of) nearby, then I tell him to wait. But otherwise, if dogs can do it...