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?

Agreed .. and don't feel I have to spray clean my bum after every poo or I might feel 'yucky'

Also: I bet a lot of these people with toilet phobias would be the first people to speak out against "period shaming" and how we need to acknowledge that menstruation is a natural process that's nothing to be ashamed of etc. Well guess what, the same applies to going to the loo. It's natural.

And I find it particularly bizarre on Mumsnet of all sites, where there'll often be feminist rants about how women need more frequent access to loos, more cubicles, due to taking longer than men etc. There's been absolute outrage about gender-neutral toilets, and yet at the same time there's a load of people who apparently don't want to use them at all. Make up your mind FGS.

You are definitely not the only one, Glummy.

@BooFuckingHoo2

and I would be a bit 🤢 about anyone disposing of their used sanitary towels in my bin

From that comment I’m sure your mum still empties your bin so shouldn’t affect you

What a weird thing to say

To all the people saying they teach their children not to use public loos, don't they ever ask you why they're there? If they're not allowed to use them, then how do you explain what they're for?

I'm on #teamGlummy too.

It absolutely appalls me that people would prevent a tradesman from using their toilet. It's actually pretty inhuman to leave someone at risk from wetting themselves or worse, to save one's precious toilet form being sullied by someone outside the family. I mean seriously, WTAF?

If this is you, for goodness' sake get a grip and treat people as you'd need to be treated in a toilet emergency.

When you get to my age (76) you dont care what anyone thinks of you. If I need to use the loo then I go regardless of where I am. There are worse things in life to worry about.

@thosetalesofunexpected

Hi I disagree somewhat, I don't like you using my local town indoor market toilets as for so long the toilets facilities are grotty,have Crap stain marks usaul on the cubicle walls of them,gaffitti obsene comments like secondary school I went.

I had for a short while issue with itchy Pin worms a couple of times,from a toilet somewhere.(it was itchy irritating like mad

So I allways make sure I have bit of toilet paper on seat,
I don't have a problem weeing in public toilets
But I will rarely do no 2 poo in Public toilets, only do that having a poo if If nobody else in public toilets or nobody I know about at all.!(cause of odour...

I would never poo in public toilet if a friend or someone I knew was in next cubicle or waiting outside to go into toilet no way,as it will could be embarrassing.

I didn’t think you could catch pinworms from sitting on a toilet.

Do you not need to ingest the eggs( which can be found on toilet seats)
I don’t think the eggs hatch and the worm crawls up your arse.( although I am happy and horrified to be corrected)

So I doubt you picked up worms from a public bathroom.

I'm with you. I find the toilet hysteria on here utterly ridiculous.

Also, bloody hoverers are batshit and unhygienic. The exact opposite of what they seem to think they are being. They spray everywhere.

I consider each situation as it comes.

At a friend's house and the toilet looks normal - business as usual. Wouldn't even enter my head to have to hover or fuck around making a toilet paper ring or to wash my bum clean afterwards.

In the nasty portaloos at a festival on day 3? Am I fuck touching anything that I don't have to. I will hover, even for a poo, and I will grab a piece of toilet paper to cover my hands whilst I use the door handle, the lock and the flusher.

I don't think my standards are especially high though. I basically just avoid sitting down if there's piss and shit all over the place. None of my friends are that dirty, and neither are most of the public toilets where I live, thankfully.

I would be a bit 🤢 about anyone disposing of their used sanitary towels in my bin
What else are people supposed to do?

Also with bathroom bins (a bit off-topic, sorry), even those who don't have periods or visitors with them, how about dental floss/tissues/cotton wool etc etc?

Finally! The voice of reason! Hurrah! Also, as well as not being overly anxious about using the toilet I also (shock, horror) don't have a shower or make my partner shower just before we want to have sex. I read a thread on here once where people were horrified about having sex with their DPs without both washing every inch of their bodies with soap. I started to wonder if I was a bit odd for just jumping into bed when we got the urge...

I would be a bit 🤢 about anyone disposing of their used sanitary towels in my bin

Sorry but that’s hilarious! Where else should they put it, in their handbag and take it home? Or traipse out to your wheelie bin?
I always provide those brown paper sanitary bags in my guest toilets (and spare tampax/pads in the toilet cupboard) and a lidded bin. The bin has a liner so I wouldn’t even notice a used sanitary product in it 😆

Only thing I’d object to is smelly soiled nappies in bathroom bin, but if a guest were changing their baby I’d offer to take the bagged nappy out to wheelie bin for them. Or in the days when we had a nappy bin that sealed them I used to direct them to that.