To be annoyed at the lack of bathrooms

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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.

They don't.

Signs say Ladies and Gentlemen.

Sometimes Toilets.

You should be glad of your lovely strong pelvic floor there!

Mine is shot after having babies! Deffo unlikely to be able to change a tampon without having a wee!

But yes it is dreadful that so many public toilets have closed. I always have an eye on the loo scenario when out and about, like a military scan as I enter somewhere!!

And mixed loo’s with sinks outside the cubicle really wind me up when I have my period. I’ll just advertise my blood stained hands to the world then! As natural as they are I’d rather keep that to women who understand.

Really? I would ask for the toilets or the Ladies'. The bathroom is a room with a bath in it.

When on holiday in most European countries it's normal just to pop into a cafe/ bar/ restaurant because there isn't many public toilets. ..and they just expect it.
Now the UK is going the same way.. so that's what l do.
Luckily if l get stopped l have a " just can't wait" card from the bowel and bladder foundation.. but I've hardly had to show it.
Pubs are easy.. the staff can't remember if you've been served or sat with friends etc.

Nonsense. Very few women only want to change a tampon without taking the chance to have a wee.

I thought this thread was going to be about a house the OP had viewed, which had ten bedrooms and only two bathrooms.

Or possibly a hotel.

So why do many pubs and shops have signs saying "bathrooms here".

Do they? In the UK? Where they do this is a change of use from the traditional ‘ toilets/ wc/loos’ and, as others have said, most likely a social media influence as bathroom/restroom is traditionally what is used in the US.
Whether or not that matters is a different question.

I can't remember ever seeing a sign for bathrooms rather than toilets. And try going on public transport - all the signposting is for "Toilets".

Suspect artlessly naive OP has got his/her/their knickers in a twist.

Well I would probably go while I was in there seeing as public toilets (not bathrooms) are so few and far between.

Or just wants period stories.

That's rude. I always ask and I've never been refused.

But many bathrooms in houses - don't have baths?

Most of them just have showers these days.

People call a room in their house with a

shower, sink and toilet

"The bathroom'

'Where is Public Toilet' App is really useful for finding a toilet when in need

AppLink - x7agc.app.goo.gl/8KTE

I would be, I sit on it because the hole is handy for leverage. Not to mention a safety wee while you're at it.

Do you do it in the bedroom at home? Or maybe kitchen? Kids' playroom?

And no, I have definitely never seen a public sign saying "bathrooms here", they say "toilets" or just have graphics of people.

I've been to the USA. I never heard anyone say bathroom there where I was

They say restroom

I think you're a man, as every woman knows that periods and urine are two completely separate things.

Not really. My mum has a shower room and a bathroom. Me referring to the shower room as a "bathroom" caused confusion with the plumber who couldn't find the leak I asked him to look at because he was in the bathroom and the leak was in the shower room but I'd said "the family bathroom" (because the room with the bath in is the en suite) and he went to the other one - as he said to me "but it hasn't got a bath in it".

And he's a plumber!

What?

They're two completely different things.

Bladder and womb are not connected to each other in any way shape or form.

You need to download an app. There are a few. I use "Toilet Finder" Lots of pubs, centres, cafes, chuch halls round me that allow public access. The council reimburses them for allowing this. It's a great scheme.

Whether you say bathroom or toilet (and to be honest, I always used to laugh at my ex Boss - a very Americanised German for saying bathroom as I expected to see him with a bath brush and rubber duckie!!) it is a bloody pain finding any. I was in John Lewis a while back and there were signs saying toilets but I could not see where! Even on a map I could not find them! I thought that they would be near the food place but still could not find them. When I need to go loo I need to go. No 30 minutes around the store finding the bloody things. It was worse during Covid when every store and coffee shop had 'out of order' toilets. I eventually got into Macdonald's. Bless them! And bless Tena lady too!!!

When you get into these rare beasts their locks do not work and there is no hook on the door so your coat has to go on the floor.

They do not mend them because of costs.

Huh, I've always found it much easier to do so sitting on the loo, but we're all different I suppose.

It's a bit like that old thread where half of us were shocked that some people wipe their bums standing up, and the other half were shocked some of us do it sitting down!

I've been in loads of people's houses. They always refer to the room as the bathroom.

Even if it doesn't have a bath in it.

Ooh what's a radar key?

I was just pointing out that it causes confusion.

I have a downstairs loo, no bath in it (there is a bath in the bathroom). Never, ever referred to as a bathroom. Just "the loo", or if differential is needed "the downstairs loo'.