To go for a wee-wee?

[TimeAtTheBar]

DH has just mocked me mercilessly for this. We are at home. I said I’m going for a wee-wee. He says I always say this even in company. I beg to differ as sometimes I say tinkle or Jack Dash or Jimmy Riddle or off for a piss.

I am an announcer though. I’ve caught myself lately sneezing and then saying ‘sneeze’ instead of ah choo or excuse me. Also yawn.

It’s not just me though, right? Normal to excuse yourself in this fashion. Yeah ok, wee-wee might be the nadir but it’s a perfectly normal thing to say?

I don’t tell my colleagues if I am getting up to go to the loo. But if I was sat with guest of course I would tell them, I am not going to get up and leave the room without a word. I wouldn’t say wee wee though, that is very weird after the age of three.

If I need to explain where I'm disappearing off to I'd say I'm going to the loo. No need to announce whether you will be weeing, pooing, changing sanitary towel etc

I think we are both “announcers” in my house for all things
-I need a wee
-Off for a slash
-Going to have a shit
-I need a poo
-I’m going for a piss, a fag and then I’m going to make some coffee

Are all things commonly heard!

I might occasionally say wee wee, never really thought about it

It's a bit twee in my opinion. And not sure why you feel you need to announce every bodily function

You tell people so they can think that you’re so quirky and cute and not like other girls. They’ll actually be thinking you’re a tit.

No need to announce it, but nothing wrong with the word.

When I was a child we would sometimes visit one of my father's work friends and his family. This colleague would say "I'm just going to shake hands with my wife's best friend" when he was off to the loo. 😄

Oh OK then. So when i'm in my own home with my husband of 30 years I should choose a more polite phrase?
Something wrong with our relationship if i had to do that.

Sorry but this is as cringe as a man talking about his “willy”.

OP are you the piss troll in a cunning disguise?

Nah, you choose your audience, and say it to people who it will make smile. Anyone not on my humour wavelength I’m completely neutral and sanitised with (and spend the minimum amount time with that is acceptable)

I don't announce it nor does anyone in my family. Do you announce all your bodily functions? Just at home or more generally?

I don’t see what’s humorous about announcing you are going for a wee or whatever.

Do you just disappear? That's a bit weird.

DH and I are both sitting in the living room now. If I got up to go to the loo I would just disappear, and he’d do the same if he did.
He’s not going to wonder where I’ve gone. 🤷‍♀️

I've never felt the need to tell anyone when I'm going to the toilet, and I cringe at adults using terms like wee-wee. Just ugh. If I'm at work, I might tell my colleagues I'm popping to the ladies, so they don't think I've vanished off the face of the planet, but at home? No need.

As for yawning and then saying yawn, and sneezing and then saying sneeze - that's just bizarre. I might send a text message to DH saying yawn if I'm in a really boring lecture or I'm really tired, but to say it out loud is crazy.

It's like when people actually say 'LOL'.

I say lol. But only if I'm saying it extremely deadpan at a spectacularly failed "joke" from DH. With the death stare. So I think that's ok.

I announce. Going for a wee, need the loo, off for a poo - whatever. But we're still trying desperately to de-scarify to toilet for DS(7) so he actually goes when he needs it instead of crapping himself and crying.

We frequently call it the bogatory. Or occasionally the privy, if we've been studying history lately. Or the poo receptacle. But NOT the wee wee drinker! Not after that got caught up in both kids' echolalia one day in town.....

I don't mind wee-wee - can't say I use it myself but maybe I'll start!

My mum says 'tiddle' - now that's fucking twee

This!!

Why do posters think it's weird to just leave a room??

I mean, if I'm leaving the room to go do a task that will take a while I might say "I'm just going to put the washing away/wash the car/cut the lawn etc" but a few minutes to go to the toilet?

Nope.

Out of interest, do the posters who think it's weird to just leave your partner in a room also think it's fine to ring each other at work most days for no reason other than just because?

I feel like there might be a correlation there.....

I find “going for a wee wee” a bit childish and overly descriptive.

Would you say “going for a poo-poo” as well?

Nipping to the loo or similar I think is enough information for the other person to know where you’re going, I don’t see the need for specifics?

Fine if you and DH find it funny or endearing and use it as a family joke, but not suitable for public use I wouldn’t have thought.

It's so weird! 😆

I would announce if something had to be paused ie. Playing a board game. IWould say can you pause, I need to go to the loo. I probably would be very quick if watching a film and just race off without saying anything. I was in a very long work meeting last week and I did get up to leave said that I was just nipping to the loo.

Dh does poo announcements when he is desperate such as "I can't speak, I have to go, I'm touching cloth".

None of the children (4x teenagers) announce at all. Ever. It's the first time I've thought of it.