To be annoyed at the lack of bathrooms

[Applecharm25]

I have my period. I can feel that i need to change my tampon.

I'm out walking round my city. There are no public bathrooms anywhere near me.

I see a sign for a bathroom in a small shopping centre near me. I walk in. The bathroom is actually in a shop. I'm told that the bathroom is only available for paying customers.

So now I have to get in a long queue and wait further and buy something while I really need to change my tampon.

Surely there should be better toilet services available.

I'm not the only one who's clocked it!

Almost everything you've said on this thread has been some kind of odd, but carry on.

Do you not sit on the loo for ‘access’? I don’t want to get too graphic about this! You need a disposal unit and somewhere to wash your hands - so a loo pretty much covers it.
Where do you do it at home? The kitchen?

I don't sit on the toilet to change a tampon.

As other women on here have also said. They change a tampon standing up.

You seem to be claiming to be incapable of understanding the difference between needing to wee and it being sensible to try. It really isn't complicated no matter how much you pretend not to understand.

You do comprehend I assume that your bladder is continually filling and doesn't go from empty to full in a instant?

No I don't sit on the loo. I change it standing up.

The same if I'm at home, I go in to my bathroom, and change it standing up.

Ditto

Ditto.

Missing the point of the thread, but I've never heard anyone in the UK refer to a public toilet as a bathroom. I've never seen signs say bathroom either.

I do agree there aren't enough though.

Do you really think that we silly women are under the impression that the two exits from the body are the same thing?

I don't actually you think you do know what it's like to "change your tampon"

Your tone is somewhat defensive for something as normal as changing a tampon
Supermarkets toilets are clean and whether you actually use the toilet or not
The cubicle is the obvious place to change
That's why they provide sanitary bins
Fast food restaurants don't normally charge

Harry Potter series definitely use bathroom for room with toilets.

Moaning Myrtle is haunting 2nd floor girls bathroom (and occupying a toilet in a specific cubicle) there.
In the philosophers stone there is Troll in the bathroom.

I really hope you used the ‘bathroom’ to dispose of your TAMPON and wash your hands. You needing to change your tampon doesn’t trump anyone else’s need to use a toilet. But yes, there should be more public toilets.

I'm musing on the notion of proposing to have "tampon changing rooms" which aren't toilets. As there's a shortage of public toilets - which women need more often than they need a "tampon changing room" - we just need more public toilets.

Don't we?

It's not sensible to try if you don't need to go!

And sometimes you simply don't need to wee.

Do you think that people always need to wee?

Yeah we definitely need more public toilets aswell.

There's definitely a lack of them around.

But what about blood spatter/droplets as the full tampon is removed? Does that just go in your knickers or on the floor?
(genuine question, I can imagine standing to insert a tampon, just not removing one).

Yes I always dispose of my tampon properly and wash my hands. Of course. Most people do I would have thought.

Be grateful that this only happens to you once a month, OP. I have a condition called diabetes insipidus and, if unmedicated, can pee out up to 8 litres a day (and that's way less than others with the same). Before I was diagnosed, I spent a fortune on drinks so I could use loos (although as extreme thirst is also a symptom, I was reasonably philosophical about this) and had to plan carefully every trip out, get off tubes mid commute etc.

There are nowhere near enough public toilets for the many, many people who need to use them frequently. Not just women. But it's the same as everything else, they need to be paid for. But it is hugely limiting for those that need them, I am just grateful that I now have meds.

Okay, one more time NO ONE has said that you always need to wee when changing your tampon. Just that MANY women find it useful to do so because toilet access is so sporadic. Also, some women have issues with their pelvic floor (and other things) which means they often do need to pee when they change their tampon.

Of course it's not EVERYONE. I myself have a bladder of steel and can go a long time without peeing, but I still give it a go if I'm already in the loo.

"As well?" Are you seriously proposing there should be BOTH?

It's not sensible to try if you don't need to go!
Of course it is! So that you're less likely to be trying to find a loo when you are desperate.

Seriously, my 5 year olds gave up being ridiculous about this long before you have.

I don't get any blood spatter or droplets.

I use the super absorbant tampons and when you remove them, the blood stays on them.

There's never any spill when taking a tampon out.

Be cautious - I imagine this is just the kind of post the OP is hoping to read.

it's toilets, usually,
loos, when asking but not on signs
wc sometimes but more often abroad
Ladies - probably the most frequent, or a little symbol to denote ladies.
Or sometimes in pubs very twee little signs.
I have never seen them labelled as bathrooms in the UK. But some loos on motorways etc. do have showers.

I can think of a few reasons why OP might want tampon changing rooms to become a thing...