To use the toilet like a normal person?

[GlummyMcGlummerson]

I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice that MN has some very strong views about toilets and using them. There's a (brilliant) thread today about annoying things about other people's homes and there's so many comments about the toilet being next to living rooms (therefore people can hear you wee), toilet brushes, "disgusting" bins in toilets, fake tan stains on lids (that reminds people that other people's bums have been there) etc. I've also seen countless other threads about people hovering in public loo's too or people avoiding having a poo when out and about or even at work.

AIBU or am I the only one who uses someone else's toilet or a public toilet like this:

• i don't line the seat with toilet paper
• I sit my bum on the seat and don't hover
• I don't care if people hear me wee - we all do it, do you think they expect a silent wee?!
• I don't even care if they hear me poo
• I dispose of my Sanpro, in a tied nappy bag, in other people's bathroom bins and I don't care if they do it in my bin
• I let workmen and delivery drivers use my loo and don't have a nervous breakdown if they have a poo
• I poo in toilets that are somewhere other than my own home and I don't feel shameful about it
• I don't mind if a house set up means going into another room to wash my hands
• I can cope with the fact that other people's arses sit on toilets
• I am utterly indifferent about toilet brushes

Am I the only one?

I would never do a number two in a public toilet or in someone else’s toilet

How do you hold it in?!

For me when I need to go I need to go

@Derekhello

I do want to be like you, sadly I’ve had too many peeing over the floor/seat incidents from tradesmen so now I always say no you can’t use it if they ask 😂 it used a bit awkward saying that but I figure if they don’t feel awkward peeing all over my bathroom then I won’t for saying no

But where do you expect them to go if they can't go in your house?

I'm the same, a toilet is for doing the toilet in. I wouldn't leave a mess and would try to open a window if I had done a poo but other than that I'm not precious about toilet activities.

I'm with you OP, and heartened by most of the responses here. That other thread was an eye-opener about other people's toilet anxieties, and goes some way to explain why public toilets have seats covered in pee and sheets of toilet paper all over the floor with none left on the roll.

It doesn't explain why people take SO LONG in the cubicle though if they're not doing no.2s or changing sanitary products. Or why there are queues if so many people refuse to toilet outside their own homes. So I would guess in real life there are more people like you than there are on MN!

the dirty cows who hover and don't clean up boil my piss

@GlummyMcGlummerson

I would never do a number two in a public toilet or in someone else’s toilet

How do you hold it in?!

For me when I need to go I need to go

To be honest with you, I don’t actually know.

I guess just the thought of releasing it in someone else’s toilet is enough for me not want to go.

You are not alone. I used to be a bit prissy when I was a lot younger but I wanted to travel and that made me get over myself.

@derekhello that is shameful. You don't let people who are working on your house for whatever reason use your loo? Wow.

I am exactly the same :) I don't get peoples problems with toilets, we all have to use them.
Staff at work are horrified if someone poos in the work toilet! If you need to go, you need to go.
I also let workman use my toilet, never had a problem with that either.

Voice of reason, OP. I find the disgust about having a bin in the bathroom particularly baffling.

I do loathe warm loo seats though. In fact I am squeamish about warm seats in a cafe/cinema/on a bus/anywhere.

Totally agree, what goes on in a loo is what is supposed to go on there. It might not be pretty, it’s natural, we all do it, and there’s no point in being OCD about it.
I’m with you, OP.

It's all the shit (pun intended) I read on these neurotic toilet threads about "airborne poo particles" or other such nonsense that gets me the most.

I have IBS and no qualms about using public toilets because when I need to go, I need to go NOW!!!!!!

No hovering unless seat is wet from the weird hover brigade.

Spot on OP. As my mum used to say, if you need to poo, poo!

Might get that cross-stiched.

I'm with you with most of them, but for some reason I have a serious fear of pooing .. rather, I hate talking about needing to, doing it, or anyone knowing I'm currently doing it, or hearing me do it.

DP is open about his habits and I'm fine talking about it in the context of him .. but this has gone on since I was a teenager and it is actually controlling my life!

I do, however, know it's irrational

Honestly, if I need to go, I go. Some of the people I work with are horrified by the idea of someone doing a number 2 in the loo but I can't really understand it. It's something we all have to do.

And if there are no bins in bathrooms, where do you put sanitary towels etc? My in-laws haven't got bins in their bathrooms so if I visit during my time of the month, it gets very awkward. Especially as I have severe endometriosis and I have to change pads frequently.

@BertieBotts

I don't like people hearing me poo. I also did a fart in the work toilets the other day and was really embarrassed in case someone was in the other cubicle, but I know I shouldn't be! It's just weird isn't it?

I'm sure men don't care if other men know they shit.

Don't care? They announce it pre-shit and analyse it as a group post-shit!

(I work in a very male dominated environment)

This has reminded me of a thread from AGES ago where a poster worked in a reception area somewhere (could have been a Dentists or GP) and a man, regular as clockwork used to come in every morning with a takeaway coffee and paper, lock himself in the toilet and absolutely destroy it.
I think they had to put signs up in the end. There was talk of a key. Brilliant.

TinySongstress, yes, I remember that! I don't know if it concluded in a satisfactory way. I also dimly recall that it was something like a counsellors'/therapists' office, although the OP was circumspect about the details. I think the man used to bring in a child for their session with whoever it was and then sit and have his coffee and breakfast before commandeering the bathroom.

I am not that hung up about toilets, and I have a toilet brush.
The only time I went into the motorway service station toilets, they were super clean and ok, but was a bit shocked, when I was washing my hands afterwards, and heard this commotion and noise in a cubicle further down. Two women were in one together, and the door flew open, and two jackets and two pairs of jeans were thrown out onto the floor outside, and then the door was shut again, when much shuffling and weird sex noises could be heard by anyone who walked past.

YANBU - I simply don't understand all the toilet issues so many seem to have.

I'm one of the toilet freaks unfortunately especially public toilets I restrict breathing to reduce my smell I'm balancing bags, squatting hoovering but never touching, I use toilet paper to press the flush button & open the lock.
I judge the cleanliness of the toilet on the skirting boards which are always filthy unless in a decent place.
I'd never have a toilet brush I had a decorative one a guest used it and placed it back in the bowl with shit on it.
I'm comfortable in my own and most peoples homes it's mainly public ones.

I worked with a woman once who was absolutely horrified that at the thought that peopel used the work loo for what it's intended to do poo. "Why would any one do that?!"

It was the first time it had ever occurred to me that some people don't just go in the nearest toilet whenever the need arises.

In what world can it be reasonable to refuse someone who's spending the day working in your house, the use of the facilities?

And if there are no bins in bathrooms, where do you put sanitary towels etc?

We have very few visitors outside of our parents, mothers are older than 55 and I’m the only female in the house and use reusable pads. If someone needed to dispose of one they would have to do it in the large kitchen bin, the same place we toss soiled nappies.