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FannyCornforth Mon 07-Nov-22 12:29:29

Hello!

On the ‘Ask a Question’ thread, a poster bravely shared an embarrassing incident that involved the loos in BHS.

Which reminded me of my own embarrassing BHS loos-based incident.

I was with a Year 2 class visiting the panto in town.
The school was in walking distance to the town centre, so we always walked there.

At the time my Number 1 charge and constant companion was a little Latvian boy who had autistic spectrum condition (and didn’t you just know it).

We actually loved each other to bits (am I allowed to say that?) but he was extremely self willed and vocal about everything.

Having refused to do the obligatory toilet stop before leaving school, half way to the panto he decided that he did actually need the loo, and he needed it pronto.

So, he and I split from the rest of class, quickly trotting hand in hand to and through the crowds to BHS in pursuit of the toilets.
And I had to really hold onto him as he was a bit of a flight risk.

He also wasn’t exactly delighted at the prospect of going in the ladies, as he usually went in the gents with his Dad.

As it was coming up to Christmas, town was absolutely packed.
I was also mindful that I needed to get back to the teacher and the rest of class as navigating 30+ infants through a packed shopping centre isn’t easy.

All the way throughout the fraught process, whenever I urged him to ‘get a move on’, he squealed at the top of his voice, to the throngs of horrified shoppers,

‘She’s Not My Mum! She isn’t! She’s Not My Mum!’

Tell us an embarrassing incident.
It doesn’t need to involve the loos at BHS smile

MrsKen33 Mon 07-Nov-22 12:42:32

Mine was visiting the Natural History Museum. My constant companion was a year one child ‘B’ who had been sexually abused. She asked to go to the toilet, so I took her. The toilets were full of private school girls, teenagers, combing their hair and putting on lipstick. ‘B’ went into the toilet and I waited. After a moment a little voice said ‘It’s just coming out now Mrs K, I’ll squeeze harder.”. This she did with lots of noises off. The school girls were silent, listening. Eventually with lots of grunting and groaning there was a big splash ‘Done it Miss’ The school girls exploded into laughter. And we made a hasty exit.

FannyCornforth Mon 07-Nov-22 12:49:34

Oh that’s reminded me of a story on Mumsnet!

Mum needed to go.
She went into the cubicle with her little toddler daughter in tow.
Again, it was a busy loos.

On leaving said cubicle, daughter gleefully cries,
‘Well done Mummy!
A wee and a poo!’

MissAdventure Mon 07-Nov-22 12:55:52

grin

catladyuk Mon 07-Nov-22 12:58:23

reminds me of an incident with my nephew many years ago. i think he was about 4 or 5 and wanted to pee urgently so i took him into the ladies public loos. he was insistent on going into the cubicle on his own and after a short while, an impassioned little voice said ' auntie m, my willie's got stuck in the zip and it hurts'!! it caused much amusement in the queue, but embarrassment to me, luckily no lasting damage was done!

Auntieflo Mon 07-Nov-22 13:58:13

I took my granddaughter, aged 4 ish, shopping. Came the time she needed the loo, so I took her into, probably, the Bhs ones..
It was decidedly smelly. She took one breath, clapped her hand over her nose, and shot out of the loos, saying "I'm not going in there!" and held on until we got home.

Smileless2012 Mon 07-Nov-22 14:08:31

When our DS was 7, we went out for a birthday treat in the run up to Easter. We found a lovely Italian restaurant for lunch and when the waitress came to take our order, DS announced rather loudly to her that his dad Mr. S., had given up farting for Lent.

That was bad enough but he went on to say that he wasn't very good at it!!!

MissAdventure Mon 07-Nov-22 14:08:47

My ex was with his daughter in the local shop (where everyone knows everyone)

His girl was about three, and found a little friend to play with.

His daughter and her new friend fell out, and he said she looked like a boy.

She came running up to the queue where dad was, and pointed at him, saying "That's my dad, and he's a boy, because he has a great big willy!"

Yammy Mon 07-Nov-22 14:14:33

I had lots of incidents with children and toilets while teaching, we had a 5-year-old who kept disappearing to the loose every 30 mins or so, a nursery nurse went to check and heard funny noises that were not toilet related. When they peeped over the door the child was sitting sucking a dummy and had obviously gone every time they felt they needed comfort.
Arriving at a big house with a Zoo we took the children to the toilets. Unfortunately, we did not have a male member of staff with us and the house was open to the public. Men were going in so we talked to the boys. All the girls came out, but no boys appeared. A member of staff suddenly realised there was a back entrance to the mens and ran round. Some boys were crying and the public was tutting about the incompetent staff.
With new intakes, we always had some who did not know what a urinal was and one little chap wondered why he wet himself when he went. We realised he was standing with his hands in the air as if surrendering.

Witzend Mon 07-Nov-22 14:14:41

catladyuk

reminds me of an incident with my nephew many years ago. i think he was about 4 or 5 and wanted to pee urgently so i took him into the ladies public loos. he was insistent on going into the cubicle on his own and after a short while, an impassioned little voice said ' auntie m, my willie's got stuck in the zip and it hurts'!! it caused much amusement in the queue, but embarrassment to me, luckily no lasting damage was done!

Eeek!
Just after last Christmas dd and SiL took Gdcs ice skating at Hampton Court - dh and I were there to mind bags and the 2 year old.

At one point Gds (then 5) needed a wee, loos were quite a way away (NB Hampton Court, too far!). I carried him - he still had skates on - but when still a distance from the loos he said he had to go NOW, and said he’d go behind a little wooden hut we passed en route.
So I waited nearby, only to hear at the top of his voice, ‘Granny, I can’t get my willy out!’ 😂
(he still had his hefty protective gloves on.)

Grannmarie Mon 07-Nov-22 14:20:07

I taught P.1, 4 and 5 years old, for many years. In the days before Classroom Assistants, I kept a basket with clean pants and baby wipes in my big walk in cupboard, to deal with the occasional ' toilet accidents'.

One day , a wee girl Y wet herself, so I got her cleaned and changed, and she went home later with her wet pants in a plastic bag.

Next morning, I walked out into the playground to bring in the line of children. Many parents and grandparents stood waiting to wave the children in to school. I had hardly said " Good Morning ", when Y , waving a paper bag above her head, shouted, "Mrs X, here's your knickers!"

Farmor15 Mon 07-Nov-22 14:49:34

This thread is making me chucklesmile.

hulahoop Mon 07-Nov-22 14:58:35

Same here farmore😅

MrsKen33 Mon 07-Nov-22 16:02:05

Granmarie You are lucky you got them back
. We never did

Septimia Mon 07-Nov-22 16:16:24

One of my primary pupils got herself locked in the school loo. She was getting anxious, so rather than wait for the caretaker and a screwdriver, I climbed over the partition from the next cubicle and opened the tight bolt from the inside.

Then I got stuck myself in a loo on a Danish campsite. We were virtually the only people on the site and I had my small son with me (he was perhaps 3 at the time). I tried every way I could to open the door and was on the verge of getting DS to squeeze under the door and get his dad from the other side of the site (although I was worried about him managing to do that) when the lady warden came in. She showed me how to manage the lock on the door so, fortunately, it didn't happen again!

Maggiemaybe Mon 07-Nov-22 16:35:48

We bravely took our young family to Spain on a coach one year. The coach arrived at our local bus station, and while we were waiting for the last passengers, DS (3) announced that he was desperate for a wee. He took himself into the loo, and managed to lock himself in. There must have been an issue with the lock, as the driver couldn’t get him out without taking the door off. He then failed to fix it back on and off we went on the very long journey to Salou with a doorless toilet. We were very popular, as you can imagine. DS cemented that later by being violently sick when we broke down on a motorway in stifling heat and were stuck there for an hour
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BlueBelle Mon 07-Nov-22 19:30:29

I was in the dungeons with brother and sister grandkids then aged about 10/8 We had a tour guide who was quite stern telling a dramatic story about the dungeons We were told to be in silence for a minute to imagine the life there 
 everyone was very quite until my grandson let out a rather loud fart he stayed completely po faced and might have got away with it if he sister hadn’t said in a loud voice Nan xxxx just farted

MissAdventure Mon 07-Nov-22 19:39:15

I went down town with someone I supported at work.

We came back later and there was a training course going on 'in house'.

Everyone there made quite a fuss of my service user, and he enjoyed being the centre of attention.

He announced to everyone there, with a flourish "And this is miss A, she's lovely, and she popped off all the way down town, and all the way back!"

MiniMoon Tue 08-Nov-22 00:36:03

At my house DGD who was about 2 or 3 decided she wanted to use the toilet in my en- suite bathroom and trotted upstairs. She was a long time so DD and I went up to see what she was doing. She had turned the key in the bedroom door and couldn't turn it the other way to unlock it.
Fortunately it was summer time and my Velux window was open. We had to call the fire brigade to come and release her.
DD and I were rather embarrassed, but the firemen saw the funny side.

Wyllow3 Tue 08-Nov-22 00:46:43

Bookmarking the thread, have had so many chuckles!

Shelflife Tue 08-Nov-22 09:18:33

Smileless , that has really made me laugh - thankyou!!

AskAlice Tue 08-Nov-22 09:52:18

My DH took my daughter, then aged about 3, to the local park. He was caught short and needed to use the loo, so had to take her in with him. As the cubicle was out of action, he had to use the urinal. On exiting, daughter went up to a complete stranger and loudly announced, "My dad has just done a wee up the wall!!"

grannyro Tue 08-Nov-22 11:42:47

Because of a family emergency I was asked to pick my grandson up from his scout group. I had never been there before and arrived early whilst he was in the middle of a game which he was obviously enjoying. I explained I was his grandmother and the person in charge asked Andre if he knew me. He stopped running round, looked me up and down and said "Nope, never seen her before!" then he ran off to continue his game! It took some convincing and a call to my daughter in law to confirm who I was before I could take him home. As you can imagine he was in the bad books for a few days!

jenpax Tue 08-Nov-22 11:56:52

These are very funny 😂 mine was taking my toddler eldest DD into the ladies where I had to change a period pad. “ooh mummy, she announced very loudly, why are you wearing a nappy have you pooed your pants?”😂

pce612 Tue 08-Nov-22 12:01:08

Not mine, but my husband's.
Long before I met him, he was taking his children on holiday abroad and had to remove belts, braces etc at security to go through to the plane. Really needing his belt and having to carry bags etc, his jeans ended up round his ankles as he went through the detector. His kids were mortified.