Public toilets

I have downloaded the app thanks

Try the app Toilet Finder!smile

We seem to copy America on so many things, why can't we copy their loos which are to be found absolutely everywhere.

I left last week at 5 am to drive from Hampshire to Cornwall as I wanted to miss the Bank holiday traffic. I take a "water" tablet and I was dismayed to find no places open with a toilet, All the garages seemed to be off the main road. In the end I pulled into a layby and hid behind the small rubbish bin. Luckily the traffic was very light and I was so despatate I didn't care what any one thought. I would have had to climb over a barbed wire fence to get behind a hedge so the bin had to do.

OH drinks a lot of water since he had surgery last year and he's forever needing to look for a loo which are always few and far between or we'll find one only for it to be closed.

In our smallish town we have 2 state of the art, beautifully kept loos. They are however rarely open at the same time and it's sod's law that if you make for one, it's the wrong one! In our village we had some really grotty ones that were on the pub carpark . The brewery sold the land for housing so we now have a portaloo on the supermarket car park.

gettingonabit... it's called stupidity

*xpost, elrel! That's the one!

I think it depends where you are. I watched a programme once about towns in the Welsh Valleys where there are no toilets. Many people are housebound because a lack of toilets.

nonnie I think there's a name for the condition where you cant hold on even though a loo is tantalisingly close....

'Key in the door syndrome' is a medical term!
My mother (who rarely drank) always impressed on me that it was all right to go into a pub to use the loo. Nervous at first, I soon got used to the idea. I'm also happy to go into coffee chains and was once taken to the staff loo in a Waitrose. 'Taken' because I was using a stick and it was down steep steps.

It's a funny thing, this growing older phenomenon, which I am still not used to as I feel just the same as I ever did, apart from the fact that (and it is a fact) if I take my dogs for a walk and don't 'go' beforehand, I always always have to 'go' behind a tree, half way round; or have to face the reality that when I get home I will pee myself running to the loo.... after I have got out of the car and unloaded the dogs... unlocked the front door... all whilst desperately doing the pelvic floor to hold the Niagra falls in and failing miserably

The rule is to go before you leave the house.

Shops with a restaurant in always have public loos, and shopping malls have them too..

Not sure about other parts of the country, but here in Leeds we have plenty of public toilets.

harrigran have you ever encountered resistance by staff when you have shown your card ?
It shouldn't happen of course but sadly it wouldn't surprise me.

I was issued with a special card which I can show in shops or other public buildings. The card states that I have a medical condition which means I need immediate access to facilities.