General Chat

THIS IS FOR THE LADIES AMONG US

THE PUBLIC LOO
WHAT DO YOU DO

FIRST SOME WHEN YOU OPEN THE DOOR IT HITS THE LOO NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY WITH OUT STRADDLING THE TOIILET ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO
CLOSE THE DOOR,
NEXT ,ONCE THE DOOR IS SHUT YOU LOOK FOR SOMEWHERE TO PLACE YOUR BAG NOWAY ARE YOU PUTTING IT ON THE FLOOR,NO HOOK ON THE DOOR,NOW THE FUN BEGINS,HOLDING YOUR BAG WHILE TRYING TO AJUST CLOTHING,,,,NOT EASY IS IT,
THATS WHEN YOU REALISE THE LOO PAPER HOLDER IS ON THE DOOR CAN YOU REACH IT,OF COURSE YOU CANT YOU THEN STRUGGLE TO REACH IT,AND GUESS WHAT ,ITS ONE OF THOSE
STUPID ONES WHERE YOU CANT FIND THE END AND WHEN YOU DO IT TEARS OFF AT ONE SQUARE SO HUNT THE END AGAIN,
WHEN YOU FINALY MANAGE THE ASULT COURSE TO GET OUT THERES A HUGE QUEUE WAITING TO EXPERIANCE THE SAME AS YOU.

OH ANOTHER THING WHY IN SHOPS DO THE LADIES ONLY HAVE A COUPLE OF LOOS,,NEVER ENOUGH :-( ;-)

And I have lost count of the number of times I have spent looking for the end of the loo roll only to realise it is poking out of the middle of the container (ok I am a slow learner).

But there are some good ones. Lakeland in Windermere where you can sit on the loo and watch a TV screen showing various things to buy. Meanwhile hoping that there isn't a camera watching you. :-D

That's all very well, Ann, but my mother always told me never to sit down on a strange loo :-S

I do try to remember to sort out the loo paper as soon as I get in the cubicle though !

Strangely beause I am quite paranoid about picking up bugs, I have never worried about sitting on the seat after seeing somewhere that it is unlikely that you will catch anything from a loo seat. And the older I get the harder it is to 'hover'. :-D

Not just me then...! nearly every campsite has loos where you cant squeeze yourself through the door without crushing up against the loo.

Not very helpful when already phobic about public loos since being told as a child never to sit :-(

CAME HOME A FEW MONTHS AGO ON THE TRAIN ,I WAS IN THE DISABLED COMPARTMENT HALF A DOZEN CYCALISTS GOT ON I WAS SURROUNDED BY BIKES ,,AND TRAPPED
THEN A LOAD OF SLIGHTLY TIPSY FOOTIE FANS GOT ON,,AND THE LOO DOOR IN THE DISABLED COMPARTMENT JAMMED OPEN,
DONT NEED MUCH IMAGINATION DO YOU FOR WHAT HAPPENED FOR THE LAST HOUR OF MY JOURNEY DO YOU

We went to a hotel in Birmingham for a briefing once. It had recently been refurbished, including the toilets.

The cubicles were very long, it was a days march from the pan to the door and,of course,that was where the toilet roll was hanging.

I'm beginning to think the supermarkets buy 'seconds' when it comes to their loos. The seats are all over to one side, so you end up on the porcelain if you aren't careful. They seem to get lower and lower in some places too......fine for little children, but what about us with dodgy knees and backs trying to get back up again.

As for the wall type hand dryers.......must all be positioned by MEN!! If you are only 5 foot 2, by the time you have lifted your hands high enough, the drips have run down to your elbows!

Unless I am absolutely desperate and I mean desperate I wouild never use a public toilet. Mind you I do seem to be able to hang on for hours which I know others can't.

Pammy 51 that brings back memories. My mother would always say 'don't sit on the seat' Maybe that's why I avoid them now.

Vera

I think you are more likely to catch things on the bus when you hold on to the handle on the seat in front or when getting off. Have you seen the way people sneeze into their hands and then touch other things. and touching the door handles on the way out of the loo, ok you may well have washed your hands but did the person who used the door before you? As I said, no point in being paranoid. :-)

I have noticed lately that more and more ladies are protecting their hand with a paper towel when opening the public loo door. x

I agree Ann. After all that Swine Flu publicity I'm now much more conscious of hand washing. I'm starting to sound like a crank now but you do have to be more careful as you get older I think.

Vera

I know logically there is no reason not to sit down, it is just early training - for instance I cannot leave the house without going to the loo - even if I only went 5 minutes before (Thanks Mum! :-( )

Our Mums (and do you ,did you do the same with your daughters?) are apparently to blame for so many of us having weak bladders. We girls had to go to the loo before leaving the house even if we had already been a few minutes earlier so our bladders were never trained to hold on for any length of time. Boys were not reminded to go before they left home because as children they could pop behind a hedge etc as and when they needed.
I was told this as fact when I attended a clinic prior to having an operation to strengthen my pelvic muscles and was told we Mums must stop making our girls go to the loo so often!

Pam