McDonalds.., cross your legs unless u have time for a meal

moromir

cat04 wrote:

A friend once told me that when her daughter was 1st potty training she was shopping in our local Lakeland store. The little one needed a wee so she asked staff if she could use the staff loos. Big no, not even for a child. Her DH was stressing as LO was desperate, but luckily my friend had one of those folding porta potty things, with the 'soak it up pee pads'. She said I should have seen the member of staff's face as she got the potty out in the store and as LO started to wee the pad came away from the potty and leaked onto the floor!!

I do agree though that shop toilets should really be for 'proper' customers (i.e. paying customers, or bona fida browsers), although I would hope that they would allow children and pregnant ladies to use them.

cat04 wrote:

I'm sorry but that was fairly selfish...of you to expect a young child to hold it for several extra minutes and possibley to wee herself and suffer the embarrassment and hassle that follows. I know it wasn't ideal, but her daughter was really desperate, in dungarees and was at the back of the shop, by the time she'd got outside, undone her clothes and set up the potty she would have wet herself. In the shop. Still means there's a puddle of wee on the floor. ....

My bolding.

Just how big was that shop?? :eek:

Come on, several minutes to exit a shop?

If the kid can hold it long enough for the mother to find a staff member/que up and ask to use the toilet with spare time for the OH to stress at the staff, and even if they'd said yes, it would have been a walk to the toilet, I don't understand why several seconds to walk outside is impossible. It doesn't take "several extra minutes" to exit a shop.

According to your post there was two adults, both of them could have been walking swiftly to the exit once the staff said no, one of them could have been unbuttoning dungarees and encouraging the kid to hold on a few seconds while the other unfolded and set up the potty ready to put her on as soon as they got outside.

Part of my astonishment at your story and why my reaction was 'disgust' was that the way you tell it, it reads as if the friend thought it was funny to 'get one up' on the sales girl who said no. Its the usual problem of the internet - theres no way to read the tone. I just know that if it was me, I would have been falling over myself to apologise and been offering to help clean up, maybe your friend did but I certainly don't get that impression.

I really don't see why anyone thinks they have the right to pressurise retail staff into giving access to staff toilets when the shop does not advertise toilet facilities, there may be insurance implications or they may simply be doing their job by enforcing store policy. If saying no to someone using the toilet means I get to keep my job... I'm sorry but I'm going to say no.

aheaton46

chuckley wrote: »

so ur meant go on the street?!

Go to the loo before you leave the house. Go in a coffee shop. Visit a supermarket. Where you go is your problem not the councils.

hermum

Often shop toilets are through stock rooms so that would mean a member of staff being off the shop floor while accompanying a family to the toilet.

msfoxymax

I work in a shop and of course i would let a child use the loo FGS what's the world coming to if you cannot allow a child that is bursting to have a pee!!!!! :eek: The whole world has gone bl00dy loopy IMO

ButtonF1Fan

I agree, I don't have IBS but I've had Wee problems since my son was born. I often go into places like tesco, mcdonalds or debenhams and head straight to the loos, as i DO NOT have time to ask. I will even use the disabled....... if I have to, I have to. Wetting yourself in public is not nice I can tell you!!

Anyway, back to McD's. The staff are not all 'orrible oiks you know. I worked there for 7 years. I was the "lobby" person... so I've seen many regular customers, and non paying people using the loos, and I have no issues with that. Better than the young "men" that would pee in the bushes by the drive through lane, or obvious junkies heading to the loos to do bad things.

I do not like the way everyone thinks ALL mcdonalds staff are idiots!
Just saying...

geri1965 wrote: »

I have IBS, and as there are practically no public toilets in the centre of Bristol, I use shops all the time! I'd like to see anyone try and stop me actually, because when I need to go, I need to go. I once had to run into Burger King and I made it to the cubicle with literally seconds to spare or I would have cacked my pants.

chuckley

aheaton46 wrote: »

Go to the loo before you leave the house. Go in a coffee shop. Visit a supermarket. Where you go is your problem not the councils.

that is idiotic at best. people need the loo for ALL SORTS of reason once they've left the house. like this thread says, many cant go to the loo in places they havent purchased anything.

hence the need for public loos.

aheaton46

chuckley wrote: »

people need the loo for ALL SORTS of reason once they've left the house.

hence the need for public loos.

Many people may be thirsty when out. Should the council provide free bottled water so they don't have to buy a drink?

POPPYOSCAR

aheaton46 wrote: »

Many people may be thirsty when out. Should the council provide free bottled water so they don't have to buy a drink?

I can remember the days as a child when they had little drinking fountains in parks etc.

rygon

As a sufferer of IBD when i need to go for a poo, im going, whether its in a toilet (hopefully) or even in my pants, its coming out and I dont have any choice (or even much time). We cant "hold on" for a few minutes to find somewhere, its physically impossible (and sometimes very painful).

Without being able to go to shop toilets I doubt i would be able to actually go shopping, toilets are needed, So if any of you do own stores and theres a person desperate to use your toilet, then please do, there might be a very good reason and may save someone from a lot of embarrassment and suffering

Money_User

rygon wrote: »

As a sufferer of IBD when i need to go for a poo, im going, whether its in a toilet (hopefully) or even in my pants, its coming out and I dont have any choice (or even much time). We cant "hold on" for a few minutes to find somewhere, its physically impossible (and sometimes very painful).

Without being able to go to shop toilets I doubt i would be able to actually go shopping, toilets are needed, So if any of you do own stores and theres a person desperate to use your toilet, then please do, there might be a very good reason and may save someone from a lot of embarrassment and suffering

I don't think anyone would deny you that.

I think the main discussion in this thread is the high and mighty "!!!! takers" lol who will storm into a place probably never spending any money in there although will claim when asked that it's £££'s a month and think it's their god given right to use the loo for free!