I’ve become a regular public loo

[PinkScot]

Last week a female Amazon driver asked to use my loo and of course I said yes, she said she was desperate and explained it was difficult to find a loo on a route. I must admit although I said yes I did feel quite uncomfortable as she was a stranger but obviously wanted to help. Now today she’s asked me for the third time. I was having a bad day anyway but I did say do you have nowhere else to go but here? I kind of feel I’m just going to get asked every time she comes now because I helped her out and I hadn’t signed up to be the public convenience!

I feel bad for feeling this way but it makes me feel queasy. I can’t explain why I feel taken advantage of…anyone else had repeat toilet users?

Not in all areas, I sometimes work as a paramedic in an area where we have to be strategic about fuel, let alone toilets, on sunday evenings and christmas day. Another part of the area I cover the council only unlocks the public toilets that are funded by local residents via their council tax, during the tourist season!!

I am always greatful of a clean house with a hygeinic toilet.

I'd let them. I know how busy they are and don't necessarily have the time or option to find public toilets. I once let a funeral goer use my toilet too (I live near a church) because she was on the verge of wetting herself. And a paramedic because again with them being busy they can't always nip in Tesco whilst blue lighting someone to hospital

If you have someone doing work in your house, why will them using your loo mean they’re more likely to infect you with something? I mean, they’re in your house breathing and touching things anyway.

By this point I would probably just be holding the door open and say you know where it is! It's nice to be able to help people out, a few minutes of our time for a much needed toilet break? As long as she doesn't tell all of her colleagues lol 😆

I live rurally and the amount of pee filled bottles I find when out walking is shocking. I’d just let her use your loo. It’s a shit job and they are treated appallingly.

I did! Read the above post 😝

It wouldn’t bother me if a woman driver asked me. I’d be uncomfortable allowing an unknown man into my home (I never have the same drivers) but even then I prob would.

Where is she going to use that?

Fancy being fortunate enough to have:
a comfortable home
indoor sanitation
'stuff' delivered to your front door

And still begrudging, or at least fretting about, a fellow human using your loo.

That's shameful

Yes I get your thought process but you have described pretty much 90 % of the population of the uk that have all of that privilege.

It was always spotless. It was such a treat let me tell you🤣
They kept a load of cleaning stuff in there and I think people generally cleaned up after themselves.

Anyone is welcome to ask at my door and everyone would be invited in.

Having stood in for a colleague one day when he was off sick I was the only one spare able to drive the delivery van in the company.

Within the first hour of delivering packages I started to get terrible stomach pains. By this time I was on the edge of town in the countryside. I suddenly felt weak. I didn’t know why. I was wandering up and down the roadside wondering what to do.

I then realised that I needed to poo urgently. There was a patch of grass about 100m x 25m with a ditch running along the fence line 25m from the road. I ducked down in the ditch and had an “explosive” bowel movement. My head was stuck up above the long grass.

Luckily I had a pack with 6 wet wipes and a pack of tissues in my pocket so I was managing to clean myself up, but in the midsts of this operation two cars stopped separately and people got out to see if I was ok. I had to wave them away. The van parked strangely probably alerted them to a problem. One kept coming towards me. I was cringing with embarrassment as I had my jeans and knickers around my ankles. The smell of the poo was horrendous. Thankfully she probably realised that I was not ready for guests at that moment and turned back to her car.

I felt so weak that I just drove the van back to work and got a lift home to then go to bed.

Unless you have a medical problem please let people use your bathroom. Just imagine if it was you that needed the toilet urgently.

She is a human being who just needs to pop to the loo, I am more upset by the thought of her having to pee in a bush or a bottle. I honestly can’t imagine turning her or anyone who needed the loo away. I have bladder issues and it is such a panic to suddenly need the loo and not have access to one. I don’t understand what you think is going to happen to your toilet if someone else uses it, to all of the people horrified at the idea of letting someone do so?

If someone asked my husband if they could use our loo when he opened the door for a delivery and he refused, I would think he had lost his mind - and I know he would feel the same if he heard me do it.

Yes. Lucky us to be so fortunate and may we all learn to appreciate what we have, and share what we can

Say sorry, I'm just on my way out and I'm late as it is...

Tell her some one has just got in the bath

Because all toilets are in the bathroom

I did Waitrose delivery driving a few times (I worked in-store normally). Being a female delivery driver is awful when it comes to needing to go.

I'm sorry - but that did make me chuckle

Report her to Amazon??? WTF. Just say no

I wouldn't mind someone askimg to use the loo. An Amazon driver was asking for directions to a petrol station and, when I realised it was for a loo, I told her to come in and use mine. I don't think it hurts to be kind to people doing a busy job with poor access to a loo.

If you were bursting for a pee would you be happy to be turned away? Treat people as you would like to be treated or expect karma!

This thread inspired me to ask the recovery driver who came to sort my car (homestart) if he needed a drink or the loo before he left 🤣

Nice of you to ask him, I’m sure he appreciated the offer even if he didn’t need to go.

I had a plumber called out via my home insurance, he was here a while doing quite a bit of work. I said feel free to use the loo before he went and offered him drinks whilst he was here.

I haven’t read every comment on here. But the issue isn’t letting someone use your toilet whilst they are doing a job.
I think the issue is it becoming a regular thing.

It depends if it bothers you or not. Some people would mind ,others wouldn’t mind at all. It’s down to personal feelings I suppose.