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Visiting Public Toilets Bare Foot With Your Kids - Do You? Would You?

36 replies

SecondhandRose · 10/08/2007 21:22

Am just back from Devon and used the public toilets at the beach. Am I a bit old fashioned in thinking it is not healthy to take kids into a public loo with bare feet?

I was in a queue as usual and I would say about half had shoes on and half didn't but I always make my kids put theirs on.

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SecondhandRose · 10/08/2007 21:22

Oh and the mummies had bare feet too not just the kids.

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MerlinsBeard · 10/08/2007 21:23

i made mine put shoes on when we had to use them on hols last year.

Nbg · 10/08/2007 21:23

If it was an emergency toilet trip I'd go in naked.

brimfull · 10/08/2007 21:24

well I suppose theoretically it does no hram as you aren't going to suck your feet.Presumably will wash later aswell.

But I would hate the feeling off someones piss on my feet...yeuch!

elasticsortinghandstand · 10/08/2007 21:24

also really need shoes on the beach, here anyway

Spidermama · 10/08/2007 21:24

PMS:L NBg. I think if you're going back in the sea afterwards it's fine and I wouldn't bother with shoes.

meandmy · 10/08/2007 21:24

urgh! yuck!
GERMS
no me and dd wore sandles to paddle on day trip to wales!

expatinscotland · 10/08/2007 21:24

Um, no.

Yuk.

Bibis · 10/08/2007 21:24

Oh for goodness sake it is not the end of the world if you are on the beach think of all the crap on the beach and in the sand.

I would not make a practice of going to the loo bare foot but I do not think that there is a major problem with it. You can always go in the sea afterwards and wash said feet in the oh so clean waters.

Take a chill pill and worry about something serious like that great white of Newquay

expatinscotland · 10/08/2007 21:25

Crocs, people, Crocs!

bookwormtailmum · 10/08/2007 21:25

I have done in the past but I carried my toddler niece rather than let her walk in barefoot (didn't have dd then). I wouldn't do it now.

PestoMonster · 10/08/2007 21:25

Eewwwwwwwwww!!
That's disgusting. I was at the beach yesterday with my dds and the older one wanted to go to the loo, and I told her to put her sandals on. She complained, but I asked her would she like to walk in other people's drips? She didn't take long then to think about it and the shoes were on in a flash

Bibis · 10/08/2007 21:25

prefer barefeet to crocs!!

RubySlippers · 10/08/2007 21:26

but wee is sterile isn't it?
if you are dashing in and out of the sea etc then personally i wouldn't be too worried
i generally wear shoes/flip flops on the beach because i am worried about stepping on broken glass or yucky cigarette butts

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SecondhandRose · 10/08/2007 21:26

More thinking about cuts on feet mixing with whatever is on floor of ladies loo ie blood and cross infection or is that the dental nurse in me talking?

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Spidermama · 10/08/2007 21:29

I'd rather walk in on all fours than wear crocs.

< Kicks crocs further under desk >

expatinscotland · 10/08/2007 21:30

I like my Mary Jane ones, Spider.

Mine are like this, but black:
cgi.ebay.com/CROCS-MARY-JANES-PINK-7-NEW-ADULT_W0QQitemZ110157396660QQihZ001QQcategoryZ63889QQssPage NameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Nbg · 10/08/2007 21:38

I bet theres more piss and sh$! on the beach than on the floor in the toilets.

If people wanted to empty their bladders and bowels on the floor, they wouldnt go into a toilet would they.

And do you eat with the soles of your feet? You wash your hands after a loo visit so your hardly going to die.

Marina · 10/08/2007 21:40

I saw quite a few adults and children using the clean and well-maintained public loos in bare feet at our Devon beach recently
I don't think it's a health hazard, if anything a hygiene one. But it didn't bother me tbh

bookwormtailmum · 10/08/2007 21:41

I saw an old bf in the supermarket the other day wearing Crocs so I'm never going to wear them now. He never had any dress sense anyway so that's definitely a No vote for me .

wulfricsmummy · 11/08/2007 16:58

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saffymum · 11/08/2007 17:22

I lived abroad where its hot, for 23 years and we walked around barefoot most of the time, beach, shops, toilet etc and didn't come to any harm. I do wear shoes around this place though what with the disgusting habits of some men of certain cultures that think spitting on the street is acceptable. YEEEEUK.

I did a sprint to tesco the other day and didn't put my shoes on after working in the garden, I might as well have had a tulip growing out of my head the way people looked at me. Its was 28 degrees and I drove there but you would swear I'd broken the law or something. won't do that again, and no, crocs are a no no unless they're the £5 knockoffs.

saffymum · 11/08/2007 17:23

Um we did have shoes for 23 years, just was too hot to wear them what with getting in and out the swimming pool/beach all the time. And whats wrong with flip flops?

McEdam · 11/08/2007 17:26

No, I wouldn't, the idea is just too yucky. Urine may be sterile when it comes out of your body but a floor hundreds of people have walked on is NOT sterile.

ProfYaffle · 11/08/2007 17:29

Ewwww, no. Went to the loo on the beach at Gorleston last weeekend, the floors were disgusting, awash with all kinds of mysterious fluid, I really wouldn't want to feel that between my toes. Ick.