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Public toilets! Wait for the ladies

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Burntt · 13/12/2025 17:50

Taken my dd to a London show. Timing is terrible as I’m on my heavy period day and bleeding through super plus tampons every hour or so. I am amazed at how long the lines are at all the toilets! Is this normal now for big cities? 15-20 mins wait at the station twice and something like 10 mins in a McDonald’s. Theatre I was expecting to be bad but everywhere? I don’t get out much these last few years as I’m carer for my disabled child and when we go anywhere we can use disability toilets. Stood here with my radar key looking at the unused disabled toilet trying to distract myself. Of course if the men are waiting is a couple minutes only those lines don’t extend out the door and down the corridors. How are women putting up with this?!

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notatinydancer · 14/12/2025 21:13

everdine · 14/12/2025 13:21

I’ve never had any problems and been doing this for years in public!

The sitting toilet is a a fairly modern invention. Humans would’ve been squatting throughout most of human history and still do in other parts of the world.

Squatting yes , hovering is different.

Whammyammy · 14/12/2025 21:19

BashfulClam · 13/12/2025 17:59

I never understand what people are doing for so long. You can see people going in but they are still in the cubicle 10 minutes later while you are in the queue. Sometimes even in a 20 minute queue you never see see some people come out again or at all if the cubicle was closed when you first arrived. Even having a poo and changing sanpro doesn’t take that long. Are they going for naps?

Probably posting on MN how long the toilet queue was...😁

everdine · 14/12/2025 21:24

notatinydancer · 14/12/2025 21:13

Squatting yes , hovering is different.

Squatting is better for your body but I’ve never had any problems with hovering over a public toilet so I will carry on doing it. I honestly don’t think I could sit on a public toilet now!

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