Announcing lavatorial intent.

Even in a restaurant I d still say ‘won’t be a minute just going to the loo’, I ve heard my friends say the same, in my circles it seems normal to let folks know where you are disappearing to.
I wonder why it annoys you Ginny
No I haven’t got a lock on my loo door but as we all announce where we re going it doesn’t really matter does it 🤣🤣

RosieandherMaw

When I was a child I can remember hearing my father talking about “going to see a man about a dog”
I also remember being very disappointed each time he came back without one.

🤗🤗 My dad too!

My dad said that too, and DH used to say it to the DC.
🐕

Bluebell it doesn’t annoy me. It irritates me, in the same way that someone might when constantly sniffing or rustling sweet papers at the theatre.

Ok Ginny but then I think it’s a little quirk in you and not in all the people (most on here) who do do it and don’t see a problem with it
Maybe you need some counselling 🤣 (only joking of course they are other methods !!! )

Blubelle You may well be right. I once tried being normal but found it too boring. 🤪

That was a very patronising remark. Are you sure what you tried to be was normality and not what you condescendingly considered to be normality because it was something you considered to be boring. An east mistake to make.

I would say that'going into detail' is coming back and telling everyone what you just did!

Witzend

Astitchintime

We always say when we’re going to the loo as we don’t have a lock on the bathroom door (no intention of putting one on either) and if we’ve got company no one wants to catch someone else ‘mid stream’!

Eek! Why no lock? I feel sorry for any guests at your house, or is on purpose, to put them off?

I still remember the angst I felt on my French exchange at 14 - no lock on the bathroom door! The only thing that actually happened was Monsieur once walking in on me in just his baggy Y-Fronts, but it turned going to the loo into an anxious exercise every time.

There is a reason for there being no lock on the bathroom door and any ‘guests’ know this and accept. We also have another way of ensuring that the bathroom is ‘engaged’………….but still, everyone in the house says ‘just going to the loo’.

Monica it was a lighthearted comment. Can you or anyone else tell me what ‘normal is’?

Astitchintime
We took the lock off ours when DGD to lock herself in. We managed to get her out without damage, but she was scared it might happen again.
We have a weighted owl doorstop by the door and guests know to put it against the door, inside or out, for extra peace of mind.

We still tend to say, “Just going to the loo.” rather than just getting up and walking out of the room.

Love the only fatted rhyme!
No problem with people saying they are going to the loo.

Farted....

I'm in the 'wont be a minute, just popping to the loo' club, without adding any further detail... unlike my 5 yr old grandson who relishes announcing: 'ooh, I need a poo' whilst dashing off to the downstairs loo at speed. He does this every time even though he's told that such detail is not required😝.

WelshPoppy

A bit more polite than saying I'm going for a sh*t, I guess

I used to look after a lady with dementia who had a catheter for urine but used to forget. ("What's this bag for?"!) so when she said she needed the loo (what I usually say) I'd ask her whether she only needed a wee, the answer being (from this well spoken and dignified ex teacher) "No I need a shit!" - quite loudly and forcefully!

mamaa

I'm in the 'wont be a minute, just popping to the loo' club, without adding any further detail... unlike my 5 yr old grandson who relishes announcing: 'ooh, I need a poo' whilst dashing off to the downstairs loo at speed. He does this every time even though he's told that such detail is not required😝.

My son at around the same age once answered my phone and told the caller "My mummy can't come to the phone at the moment because she's having a poo"!

I often suffer from constipation if I can't go at the moment the urge takes me, so I got into the habit of keeping a Sudoku puzzle book in the loo (now it's an old tablet and of course reading glasses) so it became habit to say "just going to do a Sudoku".
Now so "normal" with us it's even become a verb!

What's wrong with I need a wee? Depends who you're with I suppose!!