Rushed from the toilet so somebody else can go..

[OneLooWhatToDo]

NC for this as i can't believe i'm posting it. MN can verify that i'm not the poo troll. I've been here years. Penis beaker etc. First world problems i know but i am mildly irritated about this...

I have family here for tea.

My flat has one toilet, which i was using to do my business.

No sooner have I sat down the door handle starts rattling with somebody trying to get in, I call out "I'm in here, won't be long"

A minute or so later (literally) a voice calls through the door "OneLoo, how long are you going to be? X needs to use the toilet"

FFS. I hadn't been in there any longer than 3 minutes at this point.

I'm not finished but abort mission as being badgered and rushed is making things take even longer and now i'm pissed off to boot.

I come out and somebody else goes in to do the very thing i was trying to do myself and sits in there for 10+ minutes.

AIBU to think this was really bloody rude and bad mannered?

"The more you knock, the longer this is gonna take"

I have some gut issues that mean the natural spasms that push stuff out of the gut... don't, with me, and I have to physically work pretty hard (so hard I have sore ribs from pushing!) to get stuff out sometimes. If I don't, I end up with impaction constipation.

So yeah, if someone with IBS and is about to explode is out there and im still going - literally, tough shit, I got there first. (THere are also days I can't hang on and again if someone else got there first and is still doing what they have to do and can't stop... then ill have to deal with that!)

This is why I'll never live in a house with only 1 toilet. I love trawling rightmost to look at potential houses but always surprised how many 3beds (occasionally 4beds) only have 1! How do you all manage?

😂😂😂
I really can’t shit when I have company or am anywhere other than home (unless on holiday, in which case it still takes a while sometimes). Mine really does disappear back up my bum.

🤣🤣 Everyone in my house does that. Don't see a issue with it

Totally agree with this, especially when the only loo is in the only bathroom too. I've got a three bed with 2 loos. My husband wanted a four bed with a bigger garden and just one loo. Couldn't have agreed.

There are loads of reasons it might take more than 12 seconds to do a poo which don’t have anything to do with fibre or water intake and none of which the OP has to explain. And anyway, what if she doesn’t eat enough fibre or drink enough water- it’s her bog and as long as she’s using it for its intended purpose and not having a fag or doing The Times crossword then why is someone else’s poo more worthy? And what if she was changing sanitary products? Or she had clothing that took some time to remove? Or any other of a plethora of reasons she may have been in the bathroom for three whole minutes? Christ.

My only comment really is I would have to be absolutely desperate (ie shat myself) to bang on someone else's door in their home and say I needed in.

Poo, interrupted.

What would piss me off the most (no pun intended)😂. Is the fact that someone knocked on the toilet door for another person. Can't the person who wanted the toilet ask for themselves. I am assuming its an adult though rather than a child.

What would people even do if they managed to beat the door down, only to be confronted (unsurprisingly) by a person sitting on a toilet, mid-poo? What would be the next move in your MO then?

If you can't help but begin pooing imminently, how on earth do you expect them to be able to nip it off and finish it later, now it's all fully underway?

I wouldn't have rushed out of a toilet in my own home for anyone, unless there was a very good reason. They would have just had to wait.

@continuousprocrastination pray tell do you have to put fingers up your vagina when pooing in order to hold the walls in place and push on the bit where the rectum full of poo is protuding in, to try to get said poo out your bum (usually in vain)? If not then please don't ever tell any more women with wrecked organs they are not pooing quickly enough!

You have identified the issue. They think their needs are more important than yours and you enable that by complying.
Is this the only example of this?
I would guess not.

Oh I can't stand it when they rattle the door handle! What do they think that will achieve?

I don't think you can know for sure how urgent their situation is. Even if they don't have diagnosed medical issues, some people really can't wait sometimes and there is a risk of an accident if they can't get to the toilet quickly. From what you say, it seems that it WAS possible for you to "abort mission" 😆as you say, so that was the right thing to do.

Personally I'm hardly ever that desperate that I can't wait ten minutes, and I always jump off the toilet to give way to someone else who IS desperate. You can always come back for another go later. Have some compassion. At worst, you were inconvenienced. If they'd had to wait, the consequences might have been more dramatic.

Oh I can't stand it when they rattle the door handle! What do they think that will achieve?

It's purely selfish, aggressive behaviour, to indicate that you believe yourself to be obviously far more important than the person who is currently in there.

There's nothing wrong with trying the handle and then, on finding it locked, accepting the toilet is occupied and moving away for a little while - this also gives a subtle signal to the occupant that somebody is waiting, so do what you need to but don't just sit there afterwards on your phone; but to actually rattle the handle and/or shake the door when it is obviously occupied is a deliberate act of uncouth aggression.

"Penis beaker etc."

Finest creds in the history of the internet.

I wouldn’t knock if I wasn’t genuinely in danger of shitting myself!

Perhaps your cooking was dodgy 😜

I've had to do this with family members, had to ask them to hurry up as I needed the loo. I can have sudden attacks of IBS that cause me to faint and I feel like I'm dying from the stomach cramps. I don't care if it makes me seem selfish or that I put myself above others, I am unwell. I would do the same for someone else if the situation was reversed, or if someone with a sickness bug needed to vomit etc.

Who is this strange adult wanting to poo in your home? You should have told them to wait until they got home!

Not being unreasonable OP. And I say that as someone who has significant IBS and Bile Acid Malapsorption - and for me it’s often ‘gripe to shit€’ within about 60 seconds (sometimes less). We only have one loo too and there are times I have to hurry whoever’s on up because I literally cannot hold it. I absolutely hate it.

I’m sure if your relatives were in a similar situation to mine you might have been more empathetic but if sounds like they were just being impatient. That said, I suppose it could be possible they have similar issues and haven’t told you but as embarrassing as it can be, if that was the case they should really tell you.

As for the ‘eat more fibre’ comments…too much fibre absolutely cripples me with wind and pain and can leave me doubled over!

This advice is like telling someone with depression to 'be happy'.

Why are you pooing when you have guests round?

You’re not unreasonable at all OP.

Was it by any chance a man who so badly needed to go? And whose needs come first of course?

Im imagining a brother who ran off and got your Mum, but would love to know if I’m way off.

I do feel like the sex of the other person is important to how unreasonable they were.

Oh come on. Surely the most obvious explanation is that they had diarrhea? Why would you think otherwise?!