Not locking the door of public/cafe toilets

Not locking the door of public/cafe toilets

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benjj

6,787 posts

162 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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I can't st properly unless I think there is a good chance a stranger will walk in on me.

ccr32

1,966 posts

217 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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Davey S2 said:
Toilet-based humour
rofl

HOGEPH

5,249 posts

185 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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creampuff said:
If there is a public toilet, say in a cafe, with a locking door but the user of the toilet does not lock the door and you open it and get a view, the correct course of action:
Go outside.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwZAYdHcDtU

creampuff

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6,511 posts

142 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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Jaroon said:
Had this on a train recently. I pulled open the toilet door to be greeted with banshee screams from a middle aged woman sat on the throne. I backed away without chastising her poor door locking etiquette but on going back into the coach I recieved a few indignant looks grumpy How very dare I?
Well on trains it is often poor door design. Esp the disabled toilets with motor operated doors.

You press a button to CLOSE the door but many hapless people do not realise there is a separate button to LOCK the door. Who the fk designs two buttons for that? This leaving the door unlocked I have a lot of sympathy for.

Davey S2

13,073 posts

253 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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creampuff said:
Jaroon said:
Had this on a train recently. I pulled open the toilet door to be greeted with banshee screams from a middle aged woman sat on the throne. I backed away without chastising her poor door locking etiquette but on going back into the coach I recieved a few indignant looks grumpy How very dare I?
Well on trains it is often poor door design. Esp the disabled toilets with motor operated doors.

You press a button to CLOSE the door but many hapless people do not realise there is a separate button to LOCK the door. Who the fk designs two buttons for that? This leaving the door unlocked I have a lot of sympathy for.
Which is exactly what happened as detailed in my post on page 1.

AndStilliRise

2,295 posts

115 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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I went to a wedding more recently and after finishing the desert, jumped up and said got to visit the throne.

As this was not a quick visit, walked in and scanned there were 3 cubicles, with the first and third busy and second looking as if it had been in WWII so there was little choice. Having walked in and completed the pre-flight checks I sat down and started texting my friend. About halfway through in runs a little rado with his brother from F knows where, holding his crotch. Obviously distressed at the sight of the three cubicles busy proceeds up to door number 1 and attempts to push it open, locked. Tries door 2, locked. Door 3, locked. Now whilst holding his crotch moves back to door 2 and boots the door open with his brother looking on and me sitting there texting away.

The joy of weddings in Birmingham.

deanogtv

743 posts

219 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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these posts are cracking me up ha ha good Friday banter

furtive

4,498 posts

278 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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AndStilliRise said:
I sat down and started texting my friend
I've never had a text message so urgent that I had to send it whilst having a turd.

HTP99

22,442 posts

139 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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furtive said:
AndStilliRise said:
I sat down and started texting my friend
I've never had a text message so urgent that I had to send it whilst having a turd.
I've texted people whilst curling one out and checked Twitter and other things on the internet too, for some people, dropping the kids off at the pool is the only 5-10 minutes of peace, quiet and me time they actually get.

AC43

11,433 posts

207 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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benjj said:
I can't st properly unless I think there is a good chance a stranger will walk in on me.
A mate of mine from London once told me in all seriousness he could never have a st north of Watford.

Luckily he lives in Devon these days.

(maybe he now can't st north of Bodmin)

Landlord

12,689 posts

256 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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furtive said:
I've never had a text message so urgent that I had to send it whilst having a turd.
I have no idea what I used to do whilst having a st before the invention of smart phones. If I'm on the bog and texting I like to pepper the text with "gnggg" and "hnnnn... plop" just so the recipient knows that I sent it whilst stting.

Nezquick

1,453 posts

125 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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Landlord said:
furtive said:
I've never had a text message so urgent that I had to send it whilst having a turd.
I have no idea what I used to do whilst having a st before the invention of smart phones. If I'm on the bog and texting I like to pepper the text with "gnggg" and "hnnnn... plop" just so the recipient knows that I sent it whilst stting.
rofl
That's genuinely got me in stitches at my desk!

Nezquick

1,453 posts

125 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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creampuff said:
Jaroon said:
Had this on a train recently. I pulled open the toilet door to be greeted with banshee screams from a middle aged woman sat on the throne. I backed away without chastising her poor door locking etiquette but on going back into the coach I recieved a few indignant looks grumpy How very dare I?
Well on trains it is often poor door design. Esp the disabled toilets with motor operated doors.

You press a button to CLOSE the door but many hapless people do not realise there is a separate button to LOCK the door. Who the fk designs two buttons for that? This leaving the door unlocked I have a lot of sympathy for.
I don't understand people's confusion with them really. They're big, lit up buttons clearly showing what you have to do to open/close/lock the door. Only a moron couldn't work that out.

Maybe these people like being walked in on whilst dropping the kids off....who knows!

Ari

19,328 posts

214 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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C0ffin D0dger said:
Are your sure the lock wasn't broken?

I was in a Costly Coffee the other day and needed to use the facilities which consisted of a single unisex/disabled/baby changing toilet, some had broken the lock.
This, in answer to the OP, surely? confused

mcdjl

5,438 posts

194 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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creampuff said:
Well on trains it is often poor door design. Esp the disabled toilets with motor operated doors.

You press a button to CLOSE the door but many hapless people do not realise there is a separate button to LOCK the door. Who the fk designs two buttons for that? This leaving the door unlocked I have a lot of sympathy for.
Which happens on some trains to be right next to a (lifesized) picture of the button (with instructions. I may have drunkenly spent a while swearing at these trying to make it shut, i did manage to lock it though.

marmitemania

1,566 posts

141 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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benjj said:
I can't st properly unless I think there is a good chance a stranger will walk in on me.
I don't think any one else noticed this post.

biglaughbiglaughbiglaughbiglaugh

andygo

6,786 posts

254 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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We were racing at Nogaro in south(ish) France last year.

There was one entrance to to the Paddock loos for boys and girls. There was an old biddy sat with a small table just inside the entrance.

Turn right for boys with a slab to wee on. In full view of anyone who walked through said entrance.

Turn left for girls who had to tip old biddy prior to benefit from the rather open plan facilities. Wife reckoned she spent more on wees than food that weekend. (I quickly found a free pee area.)

Sooo.. Old biddy is in place, guarding the loos very closely (as in proximity to bodily function action) and its lunchtime. She is sat on her chair with her lunch and a good glass of wine, enjoying the ambient aromas...

Unreal.

Edited by andygo on Friday 24th October 20:36

creampuff

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6,511 posts

142 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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Nezquick said:
I don't understand people's confusion with them really. They're big, lit up buttons clearly showing what you have to do to open/close/lock the door. Only a moron couldn't work that out.

Maybe these people like being walked in on whilst dropping the kids off....who knows!
I've seen this happen several times by sensible looking people.

I think it is more likely, being sensible looking people, that it didn't occur to them that anybody could make closing a toilet door so complicated.

grumbledoak

31,499 posts

232 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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creampuff said:
I've seen this happen several times by sensible looking people.

I think it is more likely, being sensible looking people, that it didn't occur to them that anybody could make closing a toilet door so complicated.
Why would you ever want the door closed but not locked?

Blayney

2,948 posts

185 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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If the door close button also locked the door then it would be very easy to reach in and press the door and then walk off leaving the toilet locked with no one inside to open it again. Imagine the fun certain people would have with that. I imagine that is why there is a separate lock button that only works once the door is closed.