** Warning - weird thread alert **

This falls in to the category of, "Things you have always wanted to ask but never had the nerve". :laugh:

I just wanted to know whether anyone else here ever feels weird if they have to pee in a public loo when someone is in the next door trap. I always feel particularly uncomfortable if the toilet is quiet and there is only me and that one other person.

I am not like this all the time, but generally I really dislike it. One of my most hated things is when I say I am going to the loo and a friend or colleague says, "Ooooh I need to go to" and then comes and sits in the next trap chatting to me while I am trying to pee!

The other thing is when I go at work and there are women standing in there gossiping and not weeing. I feel really self conscious as I am the only one in there for the intended purpose and it's like, they are talking and all they can hear now is my wee! :blush:

In these situations I often can't go at all and I really wish the other person(s) would just bog off - I like to pee in peace!

Do you pee particularly noisily then Ceri? :unsure:

Do you pee particularly noisily then Ceri? :unsure:

No I don't - I just don't like the thought of the only sound in a room being me have a wee - it is horrible! :sick:

Do you pee particularly noisily then Ceri? :unsure:

I do, usually because I've saved it up for so long it's like a horse peeing in a trough. Doesn't bother me though; we all do it. A friend of mine leans and perches in such a way that it dribbles down the inside wall of the loo, so as not to be heard. Can't be arsed with that, I'm afraid.

Pooing is another matter. Are we talking public as in outside, or public as in shopping centres, etc? I do prefer not to poo in public, but needs must and all that. I always check there's paper first, though.

Hope this helps.

Ceri, have you tried "Taking The P*ss" by Allen Carr?

Pooing in public is just awful. I have had to on occasion (been desperate) but it really does feel like the end of the world has come. :sad:

I do have a funny story about peeing though...a mate of mine had just been for a date with this bloke and he was waiting to drive her home. She said she needed to use the loo first, not realising it was by the front door. He said he'd wait for her and then proceeded to stand outside the toilet door, jangling his car keys.

She felt really intimidated and attempted to wee down the side of the pan so he couldn't hear it...unfortunately when she got up, she realised she had ACTUALLY peed all down her jeans and over the little mat thing round the bottom of the loo! So she was in there for ages, trying unsuccessfully to mop up with toilet roll! :shocking:

Needless to say she failed, and she never heard from him again! :laugh: :laugh:

Gosh how awful for your mate Ceri. :blink:

I don't mind peeing if close friends are in the public loo also, but for instance, when I go to college, if one of my classmates are in there I just can't. And heaven forbid if the tutor was in there.

I remember once when I was dating Mr tiggs, I was at his apartment and needed to pee so bad I couldn't breath, had a backache and felt sick. I just couldn't stand the thought of him knowing that I actually did things like that. :laugh: I held on til I got home. Boy it was orgasmic when I got to that loo. :w00t:

I think before I had the kids Ceri I felt the same as you but now it really doesn't bother me! You tend to loose all inhibitions after your legs have been spread eagled in stirrups to have stitches put in!

Having a poo is different - if I really have to go, I stick loads and loads of loo roll down before I go, to mute any sound it might make! :wacko:

Oh tiggs I know just what you mean - I find having to pee when a man I fancy is in the house excruciating. I also refused to ever sleep with Mr C when we first got together - I used to tell him it was because he was so exciting that I couldn't sleep but actually it was because I was terrified that I might fart in my sleep! :laugh:

I am more than happy to pee in a public loo....but hate it when the seat is wet and I have to hover above it....or there's loo roll over the floor (worse if dampened in a puddle) ...it's when you go to leave and have a bit of loo roll trailing from your shoe :sick:

Pooing is done on a needs must basis.....first I check there is loo roll (if not I search frantically for tissues in pockets and bag (which I generally always have)....I will then happily poo away but feel a little guilty when I walk out and someone immediately moves in on my vacated cubicle... :blush:

Hate it when a loo hasn't been flushed properly......
Hate it when the loo & surround is left dirty......
Hate it when there is no loo roll....
Hate it when the loo roll is on those big roll things and I can't find the end inside the casing......
Hate it when there is no soap to wash hands with....
Hate it when the loo seat is broken and you are sent sideways off it or if it's got a crack in it pinches your bum...

Mind you some of the loos I have been in in my time have been less than desirable but when needs must I will pee and poo anywhere....hole in the ground, behind a hedge, over a cliff edge etc.....

Would you agree there is a sort of toilet etiquette though? Like, if there are four cubicles and Trap One is engaged, it is absolutely ESSENTIAL that you use Trap 4?

Well I kinda have a habit of.....if I enter a loo from the south I will automatically turn left to use whatever cubicles are available there....if from the north I always turn right and go to the end loo....if there is only one choice of direction I will generally go to the one at the far end or as close to.....and always on the far side (opposite side from the main door).... :huh:

I hate it when a loud poot echoes around the bowl and I know there is someone else in the lav that was bound to have heard it...but I can't help but chuckle when I am that other person! :w00t:

I think the unexpected fart is what I truly dread. I think I would have to kill myself if I ever broke wind in front of somebody.

Incidentally, Mr C used to nag me about this. He told me I should trump whenever I felt the need, it was nothing to be ashamed of.

Needless to say this is advice he now deeply regrets. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v53/theantidote/09cbc9fa.gif

I have to poot...but when in public I use the slow release method...gentle poot and squeeze...poot and squeeze....in order to avoid to much volume! :w00t:

I think I would have to kill myself if I ever broke wind in front of somebody.



Goodness, I would die many times a day if that were a law of nature :blush:

I hate using public toilets - full stop. But of course needs must.

I'm not bothered about anyone hearing me pee. I will not poo in a public loo if at all avoidable but only because I might be sat there so long that someone will call the emergency services.

To anyone who feels inhibited about the sound of peeing or pooing, I have to ask. What do you feel when you hear others doing it? Disgust, revulsion, or does it just not bother you?

I think most would probably say it doesn't bother them so that's exactly how they feel about listening to you!

Usually the public loos I visit are in places where I will probably never go again and nobody would know me anyway so who gives a ......... ? :)

A friend of mine told me that she was on a date once in the cinema and had to go to the loo. When she came out she took a wrong turn and suddenly found herself outside the cinema with fire door firmly shut behind her. She had to run round the front of the cinema and explain to a rather suspicious cashier that she really had paid and they insisted on ushering her back to her seat where her boyfriend thought she had done a runner :)

Breaking wind is the best way of breaking the ice, IMO. How can you ever relax with someone if they have never heard you.... ahem.... break wind?

* Did anyone notice Patsy stinking at the weekend? *

I was certainly not the primary perpetrator.

Actually Crit if I hear someone peeing/pooing/farting I feel deeply embarrassed if you want to know the truth....I find it very disconcerting. If a woman peed in front of me like Lesley on Big Brother the other night, I really don't know what I would do - I'd be mortified.

I was certainly not the primary perpetrator.
Nah that was Dol!

I'm suprised she ahsn't wagged her wobbly bits in this thread yet...she loves public loos! :w00t:

I really would like some feedback from men here about toilet etiquette for urinals. I mean, presumably if the troughs are empty you pee in one corner and not the middle, and if a man is in one corner you have to go to the other one? And how would you feel if a man stood at the trough but wasn't weeing? Presumably you have to wee almost immediately so you are not mistaken for a cottager?

Not a problem. Straight to the centre of empty urinals, or wherever there's room otherwise, feet placed wide apart and dominate that space! Who cares where you're standing, so long as nobody's peeing down your leg. Pee loud and proud. If there's one of those blue smelly pineapple ring things nearby, make it sing and dance for as long as possible.

If you need a crap, have a crap. Otherwise don't.

I suffer from the very common but bizarre condition known as 'urinary stagefright' ie I can't take a wizz in a urinal if someone else is there. I just can't do it. It won't come out and then it all gets very embarassing after a few minutes of just standing there, holding my thing with nowt happening.
Therefore, I always go into a cubicle in a public toilet - even if it's just for a pee.
I know it sounds silly, but I literally cannot do it if someone else is there! :ninja:

Actually Crit if I hear someone peeing/pooing/farting I feel deeply embarrassed if you want to know the truth....I find it very disconcerting. If a woman peed in front of me like Lesley on Big Brother the other night, I really don't know what I would do - I'd be mortified.

Doesn't bother me at all. Me and Mazz will happily stand in the doorway and carry on chatting while the other one has a pee and likewise several other friends I've had in the past. When we stay in Wales, if I'm in the bathroom getting ready to go out my Welsh sis-in-law will come in and pee and vice versa.

Same with me and Mr. C. If he's shaving and I need a pee, I just go on in.

I never had a sister so I can't say my openness is due to sharing with girls when I was younger. It just doesn't bother me if it doesn't bother the other person.

Ceri, have you tried "Taking The P*ss" by Allen Carr?

Don't you mean "Feel Free to Pee"? Or was that the sequel?

I thought that was "If There's No Paper Just Stamp A Bit".

Right I am off for a pee.

back in a mo!

I used to be embarrassed by noises I made in public toilets, but not now.

I need to pee and I just get on with it.
I don't know if thats because of having kids or whether its because of my nursing, just realising that we all do it so it's nothing spectaculaly abnormal.

As for farting, I do keep them all for the benefit of Mr A.:w00t:
Well he does tell me all the gory details of what his bowels have been doing, every day.

Not a problem. Straight to the centre of empty urinals, or wherever there's room otherwise, feet placed wide apart and dominate that space! Who cares where you're standing, so long as nobody's peeing down your leg. Pee loud and proud. If there's one of those blue smelly pineapple ring things nearby, make it sing and dance for as long as possible.

If you need a crap, have a crap. Otherwise don't.

Did you used to be one of the boys who would write on the urinal wall....

If you can reach this line join the fire service!

and I bet you've spelt your name in urine on the wall before now.....

did you have peeing contests with your buddies in the field...see who could whizz the furthest?

I had an older brother...I know these things happen!

Did you know that if men had the same power in their wanger as a woman has in her uterus they would be able to pee over the Eiffel tower...useless but interesting fact I know! :w00t:

I suffer from the very common but bizarre condition known as 'urinary stagefright' ie I can't take a wizz in a urinal if someone else is there. I just can't do it. It won't come out and then it all gets very embarassing after a few minutes of just standing there, holding my thing with nowt happening.
Therefore, I always go into a cubicle in a public toilet - even if it's just for a pee.
I know it sounds silly, but I literally cannot do it if someone else is there! :ninja:

I have to admit that I am usually the same way. The funny thing is I never had a problem with it until one of my friends mentioned that he had the problem and suddenly I had it too...lol.


And Ceridwen...I recommend you go live in Japan. They have the most high tech toilets I have ever seen....they have a button you can press to make a constant flushing sound so that others in the bathroom can't hear you peeing.

Oo I hate those automated flushing loos...you only have to fidget slightly and whoosh...wet bum! :angry:

Canadian public loos seem to have a huge gap around the edge of the door so you can see people peeing inside...whats that all about! :shocking:

Thank God for Islandman and PJ - I am not the only person to suffer with a shy bladder!

Canadian public loos seem to have a huge gap around the edge of the door so you can see people peeing inside...whats that all about! :shocking:

I found the same thing in the states, and also the doors don't go as far down to the floor as they do here, so you can pretty much see peoples knees as they are sat down.

LOL IM, having to go and live in Japan seems a bit extreme.

I do sympathise with the hover over the seat brigade, when there's something wet and nasty there, you just don't want to sit down. Fortunately I have good thigh muscles so I can hover with impunity!

And what is it about women that makes them want to accompany one another to the toilet? If someone says 'I'll come with you', I always ask 'why' thinking for goodness sake go on your own you silly mare.

In some loos they have glass doors, which are just awful, absolutely terrible.

My fave bogs are at Bluewater, where piped muzak drowns out sounds and they have those antiseptic dispenser thingies so you can clean the seat first.

I 'm not to obthered about strangers or work colleagues hearing me pee - but I do find if offputting if people are standing around the loos having a chat. I also don't feel very comfortable if someone I know if in another cubicle and chats through the wall.
When I've had a few drinks I'm not so bothered.

One thing I hate is dirty loos - I simply can't use a loo if it's dirty, my body won't let me.

I don't have too many inhibitions when it comes to peeing in public loos. I am a great hoarder when it comes to bodily functions and will leave EVERYTHING to the last minute - so when it does happen it just does make a noise - I don't care if I am next to someone or with the door wide open - my personal needs come above everything else.

I used to stuff loo paper down the loo when I was younger, to minimise the noise - but I just don't care now. I always giggle if I hear someone else fart whilst having a wee or a poo, but if I do I stay put for some time!!

I've no problem with going for a tinkle...but pooping is another matter. I would rather go home than poop at work or out. And if staying at another persons house I am usually rendered with stomache ache as can't go. (Don't you feel special now Coastie :)

With regard to wind...I'm afraid my condition renders me Mrs Windy Miller, come early evening I am a walking trumpet..PARP PARP PARP

Mr Cat just tuts...but I can't keep it in, it would be too painfull.

Great thread! I'm another who likes her privacy - the thing that always intrigues me is why 'en-suites' are seen as a desirable thing.

I'm still emotionally scarred from an awful experience when Mr FFA and I both had rear-exit food poisoning when we were staying in an hotel. Ah those romantic memories... :ohmy:

My fave bogs are at Bluewater

Mine too, Ceri. They are amazing. :wub: And they're also wide enough so that you don't have to half perch on the bloomin sanitary bin.

This loo is in Houston - it's one-way glass. There is absolutely no way I could use this... one way or not :unsure:


First, the outside view, then the inside...

http://www.chuggnutt.com/images/houston_toilet1.jpg
http://www.chuggnutt.com/images/houston_toilet2.jpg

:laugh: Wow, thats a wierd one Fee.

I forgot to mention earlier that when I was visiting the lovely Isis earlier this year, I was absolutely dying for the loo. Hadn't been for ages.
Well I went upstairs to her loo and had a wee that lasted sooooooo long, she must have been wondering what I was doing up there.
I really wasn't having a nosey around, I really was just weeing all that time.
You know the feeling, you do a wee and think it will be over in a second but it just carries on and carries on, and you think oh for god sake finish now please, and it just doesn't stop.
Bless her, she never said anything when I came down.:laugh:

Fee...at least I wouldn't need to take a book in with me...I could just poop and watch the world go by! :)

I hate loos with broken locks to...you have to try and pee and stick a foot or arm out to stop anyone stumbling in on you....something I've had happen to me and I have done to some one else..bless! :blush:

I don't think I could us that one either Fee! :wacko: