Not locking the door of public/cafe toilets
Discussion
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
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 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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.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.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.That's genuinely got me in stitches at my desk!
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 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.
Maybe these people like being walked in on whilst dropping the kids off....who knows!
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.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.
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.
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
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. Maybe these people like being walked in on whilst dropping the kids off....who knows!
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.
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?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.
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.
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