Embarrassing

[aceofbase1]

I've name changed for this as it's highly embarrassing.

So today I went to a hardware store that was a 20 min drive from my house because I needed some parts to repair our broken gate lock and hinge.

I queued to get in and then once in there realised I desperately needed a wee and I'm also on my period which tends to make me need to pee more to be honest id not given the thought of needing the loo a second thought until I felt the urge! Toilets were closed and nobody allowed to use them I grabbed what I needed and made my way to the till and queued. Once I left the store I was getting desperate. I've not got the best bladder in the world as I've had 4 children and my bladder and pelvic muscles aren't the best!

I can usually wait until there is a toilet to use when out and about.

Anyway I knew I wouldn't make the 20 min drive home so I'm ashamed to say I had to find an empty spot in the car park, stayed in my car and manage to manouvere my leggings down and peed into an empty Costa cup

Was a tad messy and not something I want to repeat.

It got me thinking! Now that shops are opening on Monday and we're being encouraged by the chancellor to start spending to get the economy moving what on earth are people going to do when they need the loo? What if someone has a weak bladder or a child needs the toilet or a toddler who has recently potty trained? What about those like me that we're just caught short?

I wouldn't be able to take my kids shopping because one of them would be bound to need the toilet!

Is there any plans to open public toilets?

Please be kind to me as I am highly embarrassed that I peed in a costa cup in the car so my aibu is basically aibu to say that if they want the economy to get moving and people spending then they need to open toilets!

People need to realise why they can't open it's the risk and unable to keep them constantly sanitised . Thats why shops can open but toilets can't.

Obviously there is a risk but other countries have had toilets open all the time and they have still managed to get the epidemic under control. Where I am the number of people using public toilets drastically reduced and the number of times a day they were cleaned increased so the risk was kept to a minimum. It was and is compulsory to wear a mask in all enclosed public spaces including toilets - though the masks are being ditched from Monday.

I wonder if there will be an upsurge (sorry thats probably a bad phrase to use!) in the sales of she-wees...?

Have they said they won't be opening toilets? I just assumed they would be. I have rubbish kidneys so can't go to the shops if the loos are closed.

Sales of she wees have rocketed since lockdown started apparently. I bought the travel jane ones for the car.

@PickwickThePlockingDodo

There's an awful lot of people peeing themselves on MN lately 🤔

Maybe it’s got something to do with all the toilets being closed.

Sheewee

@AntiHop

This has been really concerning me. We don't have a car so that limits us even more. I was thinking about walking a couple of miles to meet a friend in a park, but without a toilet, that would be impossible.

Same. Lovely big park about 30 mins walk away, but with no toilets open, I can't risk it. IBS.

I came off a motorway into a small country lane once, because I was desperate, and was weeing in a layby, when suddenly there was a queue of cars right next to me...STOPPED for a junction that I hadn't realised was just around the bend. Another time, on honeymoon in Cornwall, desperate again, my husband parked in a large layby and I weed behind the car. As we drove off I realised it had actually been the entrance way to a big house, not a layby! And when I was working, my colleague got caught in motorway traffic. She climbed into the back of the vehicle and put one of the clients incontinence pads on. , baring her bum to everyone around her, because she was wearing jeans at the time! Closed toilets is only one of the reasons I wouldn't be rushing to resume normal life!

Well I am feeling much less embarrassed after reading all of these!

The only thing I had available was one of my kid's wellies.

And the perfect "lady" shape I imagine.

Actually trying very hard not to imagine.

Ingenius way: park where nobody can see one side of your car. Open both doors on that side. Now stand in the middle of those doors and squat down...nobody will see you. They'll have an idea, though! My aunt did this 25 years ago on the side of a highway in a traffic jam. Us kids were mortified and truckers were honking.

I must have had a bad parasite one summer...but I almost shat myself several times at the age of 27...I thought I'd had chrone's disease. Hubby had to pull over on the side of the road in the French Riviera and I ran into the woods and released...it was awful...I have no idea why...it was such an awful attack.