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

Sponge

Norma_Desmond wrote: »

I don't think it's outrageous having the toilet available only for paying customers; it would be annoying if you WERE having a meal and had to queue for ages after all.
Saying that, just once I nipped into a McDonalds to use their loo - it was in Milan and there were NO public toilets anywhere.

You don't need to go all the way to Milan to find no public toilets. The council have got rid of them all in my area. Using the facilities of places like McDonalds is the only option now, especially if you have young kids.

Luisa1981

I think it's pretty petty not to let a child use the loo - like people have said, they have small bladders and need to go when they need to go. People needa bit more compassion and understanding. It's not like McD's need the profits!:money:

If it was an independent place, I think it's only polite to buy something small to take away, like a tea or something, but big chains are different (sorry but they are...)

I'm not a parent but I wouldn't let my child wet themselves in public just to make a point that could be made eloquently via letter, I think it's mean and humiliating. As is that woman who let her child use a potty in the middle of Lakeland. Horrid.

Anyway...

aheaton46

If you go to a shop and ask to use the staff toilet, whether it's for an adult or child, I'd expect them to refuse. I certainly would if I was in the shop. There's a good chance the area off the main shop floor isn't covered by their public liability insurance, so any accident would be an almighty mess to sort out - possibly with personal liability for whoever let them through.

cat04

moromir wrote: »

I'm sorry but that was fairly selfish and disgusting thing for your friend to do in the middle of a shop that sells equipment people are going to eat off.

I used to work in a catering environment on the shop floor and the amount of paperwork and cleaning safeguards that had to be put in place if there were ever bodyfluids (we had incidents of charming young men spitting on the floor, accidental cuts with knives etc) took hours to sort out.

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.

She didn't know the pad was going to come away and leak. What's the point of kitting yourself out with a porta potty if you're not going to use it when your child needs to wee? What if her daughter just wet herself anyway without telling anyone she needed to go? Would that have been as bad, at least she tried to prevent an accident, it was just unfortunate that it leaked. Maybe she should have told her daughter to hold it and just wet herself outside the shop so as not to trouble the lovelt shop staff. Maybe mums shouldn't bother with potties etc and just let their kids pee in the street in future...but I guess that would be disgusting too....not to mention the fact you're not allowed to urinate in the street.

I've seen plenty of young children wee themselves in shops, supermarkets, it can't he helped sometimes. When DD1 was first potty training we were at the local mums and toddler group and she didn't tell me in time as she was so engrossed in playing. She weed on the floor where, shock horror, other children were playing and where toys might be put after it was cleaned up. That is more 'disgusting' as you put it, then it happening in Lakeland, as young children and babies might have touched the floor and put their hands in their mouths. I didn't see any mums having a hissy fit over it as it's just something that happens.

cat04

Luisa1981 wrote: »

I think it's pretty petty not to let a child use the loo - like people have said, they have small bladders and need to go when they need to go. People needa bit more compassion and understanding. It's not like McD's need the profits!:money:


I'm not a parent but I wouldn't let my child wet themselves in public just to make a point that could be made eloquently via letter, I think it's mean and humiliating. As is that woman who let her child use a potty in the middle of Lakeland. Horrid.

Anyway...

Sorry, didn't see your post until after I'd posted. I'm not saying it's ok to let your child pee anywhere and everywhere, especially in the middle of a shop, but her daughter needed to wee, she had a porta potty, which is a foldable frame and a pad thing that attaches to it and soaks up the wee. When you're done you put the pad in a bag then into the bin, fold the potty back up and you're on your way.

How can you say you wouldn't let your child wet themselves in public to make a point, but in the same breath say you wouldn't let them use a potty in a shop?? Her daughter would have wet herself. In the shop. Then she would also have had to undress her in the shop as well as deal with the mess etc. If the pad hadn't have leaked there wouldn't have been a problem. She didn't do it in full view of everyone as she was at the back of the shop.

I don't get why some people are against children relieving themselves when they need to wee? I'd rather have had the leaky potty experience then made my child try to hold it and make themselves ill, or wet themself in a shop.

The_mangler

Most of our public toilets have now been closed but the council gives out £200 a year to local businesses if they will advertise their toilets as public.

cat04

Money_User wrote: »

Exactly it's just childish behaviour really, but some people think this sort of thing makes them look clever.

My friend certainly didn't do it to look clever. Why does it seem that others think it's ok to let a child wee themselves. Try and help the situation (and the shop, as using a potty is better than a puddle) with a potty and you're being a bad person. Very odd.

My initial post wasn't meant to be nasty and I don't think it was funny that Lakeland ended up with wee on the floor, but the puddle was smaller than it would have been if she had wet herself.

I think some people are forgetting that if a child needs to go, they need to go for heavens sake.

That's me done lol. I'm not getting at anyone, it's just that the way I'm reading some of the responses is that people would rather children wet themselves than let them use a potty!!

wendy_the_goat

deannatrois wrote: »

I live in Gravesend. Normally I take the kids to McDonalds once a week, spending £13 a visit. I have a four year old and in spite of making sure he visits the toilet before leaving the house, sometimes we are walking into town and he urgently needs to 'go'. So I normally make a quick stop at McDonalds and use their toilet facilities, knowing full well I will be returning and paying pretty soon anyway.

Not any more it seems. Yesterday i was told (by the manager) that unless u buy something, u are not allowed to use the facilities. Its new policy apparently. Perhaps I will be alone in finding this a bit shocking. Altho I know my kids think its a big treat and fun to go to McDonalds.., I am not keen to have to buy a packet of chips (sorry french fries) if my son decides he needs the loo. They enjoy it, but its not exactly healthy food lol.

Obviously McDonalds has decided it can't afford the good will. I have decided I can't afford to go somewhere that refuses toilet facilities to a child.

Use the loo's in the Pocock.

themull1

There should be loads more public loos, instead of them all being closed. There aren't any in our library either. Any places where you can be expected to be a while, there should be a loo.

chuckley

aheaton46 wrote: »

There's no obligation on any town to provide public toilets.

Out of interest, how should they have prevented the pipes freezing during that cold spell?

so ur meant go on the street?!