....to find this disgusting

Tweed was steeped in urine to set the natural dyes.

OH tells that his dad got the boys to pee on the lawn to make it green.

Obviously none of you have been to India where the men regularly relieve themselves in a gutter...... It smells. Women too have the ability to pee wearing a sari, quite an achievement.

In India there are many more mobile phones than toilets, its their priorities

Old wives tale was that all Scottish tweed was regularly p....d on to make it mothproof. I think this was before it was woven IYSWIM.

Poor little soul. No-one asks for the parent they are landed with.

It isn't always best to make it to a loo. Compost heaps benefit from being pissed on, especially if it is male piss. Just saying.

Possibly there was a queue in the supermarket loo and the child has bowel problem

We live in an end terraced house. At the back of our row is a narrow street with houses just along one side facing our backs. The end house opposite ours has a narrow passage down the side, as has ours, and twice my daughter and I have seen strange cars come down and stop there, and young men get out to have a wee against the side wall of said house. Also, a few weeks ago, my daughter had taken me, in our car, to the hospital, parking hers outside the front of our house. When we arrived back, there was a man, about 50, seemed to be looking at her car, walking round it. When he saw us he walked away down the passage, reappearing shortly and walking off. When we turned into the passage, we saw that he`d had a wee up against our side wall, the dirty sod.

Always best to make it to a loo!

A day after arriving in Australia some friends took us to see their country property. It was a long drive and Terry had to get out for a pee in the bush. He walked behind a tree and saw a log to pee on - except halfway though he discovered it wasn't a log - it was a very pissed off (literally) brown snake.

As it happened, he didn't know brown snakes were poisonous back then, so he was able to finish as the snake took off away from him.

Back in the car he found out what a lucky escape he'd had.

And especially not on when the mother must have known there were toilets in the supermarket. I hope she wiped the poor child's bum before bundling her into the car...

No need to do this at a supermarket though.

Tricky sometimes isn't it? If anyone visited Windsor bus station in the early 1970's and found a poo wrapped up in a waste bin and half washed away skid marks in the hand wash basin, please accept my apologies. There really was absolutely no alternative for my 5 year old.

I can understand children having a pee behind a bush when necessary, like I said I know when children have to go they have to go, but this was in the open with no privacy for the poor girl. I was also a bit concerned because there are plenty of weirdos out there who would get a thrill from the sight of a 6 year old girl with her knickers round her ankles. I couldn't understand how people seemed quite at ease walking past whilst this was going on.

Not pleasant , but hardly a major crime.

That's really bad... poor child, if she is not being taught/taken inside to the bathrooms, what other social graces will be missed in her upbringing?

That is absolutely disgusting, sunseeker. You are definitely not being unreasonable!
I was up a ladder by the window in our front bedroom once when I saw a car pull up on the opposite side of the road, and a fellow got his daughter out - she looked about 4 or 5 - and carried her across the road to our property. I was waiting for a knock on the door, but nothing happened. I looked a bit more closely and could see he'd taken her onto our property, just in front of our side gate, and was letting her pee there. I was so angry I rushed downstairs and caught him as he was pulling her knickers up. I'm afraid I rather lost the plot, telling him this was my property, not a public lavatory and was he going to come back with a bucket of water and disinfectant? He did at least have the grace to look embarrassed and by the time I got out there with a bucket of water he had actually come back and offered to clean up. I told him to get out of my sight . (I've often since felt guilty about how the poor little girl must have felt with this harridan coming down and screaming at her daddy. She's probably grown up with a terror of going to the loo )

Very wrong! A pee behind a bush for a little one may be.

My DGC are always weeing on grass when we are out - we live in the country; but outside a supermarket!? - I don't think so.

Gross.

I think your right Pogs

I've been with DGS when we've had to let him have what DD calls 'a country wee' but at 6 the child is old enough to hang on to it and there's a difference between a wee in a bush and this. Disgusting is the word.

That is disgusting.

I won't say what I think the supermarket staff member could be referring too as I could be wrong.