Unexpected shock in ladies!!

The worst experience I had was in India. I had tried to put off going after a snack in a roadside cafe, but couldn't wait.
I was prepared for the soiled hole in the floor arrangement, but not the cloud of mossies which descended in delight on my bare flesh

mrsredboots the hand dryers at Westfield are hidden under the mirrors over the sinks and are motion activated. Loads of people miss them and dry their hands on their derriere!

A year or so ago now I took my DGS1, then aged about 3½, to the loos in the parent and toddler room at Westfield Stratford, as I knew he would love the fact that there was a gran-sized loo and a boy-sized one, ditto washbasins at relevant heights. Sure enough he did love it - but there was nowhere to dry our hands. "We'll just have to shake!" he said!

I've come across the person handing out paper as you go in, most recently in a station loo in the Czech republic. And one place I went to - forget where now - it was quite expensive, but for your money you got shown in to a private cubicle with the hand-basin there, so you could make yourself clean and comfortable and tidy your hair in decent privacy. Wish there were more like that.

My daughter's worst experience was in New York City, when she and a friend were caught short, so they popped into McDonald's, expecting the nice, clean, tidy loos that McDos have here - only to find that there were no doors on the cubicles!

Stansgran

Worst one in Japan had a felt seat cover. It was only for our room which was bitterly cold so I suppose it was thoughtful. But the worst one ever was an early motorway cafe in India where the attendant rushed in before me and wiped the seat with her bare hands. I've never really recovered from that.

You should try the toilets in Japan. They have controls for everything. Heat of the seat, wash type including temperature and direction, then of course the type of blow dry you want! I was never brave enough to try any of the options.

In town again and used the loo in Markies.......you can trust good old M & S, drier was on the correct side of the basin! No shocks here!

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morehastelessspeed

downtoearth I did wonder if it was a bum dryer!
Luxury? [frin]

We went into a loo in Monte Carlo and there was a little old lady taking the money and handing out 2 sheets of paper! Perhaps if you needed more you had to pay again?

Just read this story!

All your stories have made me laugh and I'll be ready for anything now next time I need to go to the ladies.

This is a little aside from the main theme, but a long while ago we were asked (as printers) to reproduce as postcards, some photographs taken in the early 1900's, and one of them was of an elderly lady dressed in long black clothes and bonnet, standing outside the good old-fashioned "Gentleman's" underground toilet, obviously in London, holding walking sticks. Evidently this was a way of earning a living, she was paid to hold the sticks whilst the gentleman went about his business. Going on from that, because the card had our imprint, a young lady contacted us and asked where we had found the photograph of her great-grandmother!

It's a great idea in my opinion felice. It would be good to see more of it in this country.

A lot of public loos in UK don't have an attendant or if there is one they are often closeted away in a room covered with curtains, or behind a locked door.

That happens a lot here Falcon, the people providing the service are self employed and have an arrangement with the management, they keep the toilets clean, provide all the paper etc. It can be quite a competition between them.
When we first moved here there was an old lady looking after the toilets in a restaurant/cafe we go to.
She told me she had brought up her handicapped daughter(from a Scottish soldier) on the money she made.

In Belgium a male attendant smoking a cigar escorted me to the loo and wiped the seat with disinfectant.

perhaps the hand driers are not ONLY hand driers,and that is why they are placed closeby to the loo roll (think about it)

I was in a 'family' pub, and desperate for the loo, I asked the assistant where the toilet was and she pointed to one saying - 'that's the family one - there is another on the other side of the restaurant' I went in the family toilet and entered the cubicle - the toilets were so low, I wondered if I would ever get off again, but I was really that desperate. A big groan helped the lift-off, not quite sure what I would have done if I could not have raised myself up.

I went to the toilet which was located in a shed at a National Trust property gardens. I sat down (it was a long sit), all of a sudden the lights went out. I couldn't see a thing. Couldn't find the paper, it was like the black hole of Calcutta. I stood up and moved around, nothing! I groped my way out of the cubicle and the lights came on again. They were the type triggered by movement. I had managed to find the flush, so I washed my hands and left.

Mishap, I found same in Naples. Except it was a man !! You had to pay for it too..

Went into a toilet abroad (Yugoslavia I think) and there was a lady sitting on a chair handing our paper and wanting to know how many sheets you might need!

Katek Thanks for that image. Brightened my day!

I find those thin hand dryers really alarming and I'm 68. They make such a loud noise and appear to be devices for removing hands

I always use hand towels if they're available. Someone told me that germs lurk in hot air hand dryers, thriving in the warm moist conditions and then are blown out into our faces. I always carry a bottle of medicated hand gel and use that.

nellimoser our GS was terrified of the noise of hand dryers (and lots of other things) I can't offer any advice I'm afraid he just had to grow out of it but even at 11 he doesn't like loud noise. it makes it very difficult to take them to the loo when you are out though I sympathise.

My DGS1 at 33months is terrified of the noise of those blowy hand driers.
He does not like going into a public toilets, which makes it very difficult for anyone out on their own with him. Big sobs when I was with him in the park and I really needed a pee.

I had not then realised the cafe toilets had hand towels as an alternative.