Toddlers peeing in public.

Caroline_a

jaylee3 wrote: »

I don't see any harm in this as long as the food is paid for at the till before you leave the shop.. I often do my shopping, and pop a bottle of water in the trolley, then drink it when I am shopping, and pay for it at the till.

I literally see no harm in it. I pay for it before I leave the shop.

But it wasn't yours to drink! Would you try on and wear a t-shirt from, say Marks and Spencer's and then pay for it on your way out?

thatgirlsam

SevenOfNine wrote: »

I insist my Grandsons (4 & 6) go for a pee & attempt to squeeze something out before leaving the house, if it may be some time before we can access a toilet again. Amazing how many times they both categorically state they don't need to go, yet 1/2 pint pours out when I insist they try.

Then if they need to go whilst out they have to hold it while we look for a loo. On occasions when the situation becomes REALLY desperate in the bushes/tree has had to suffice, but not for some time now they are getting older, there is a point where it's totally unacceptable IMO.

Interesting how, unless I missed it, we got to post #38 before someone mentioned DOGS! My neighbour always let her dog squirt up the lamppost right beside my driveway.

I have done it myself..(asked the kids to go to the loo before a long car journey) but it is actually quite bad for your bladder. If you empty your bladder a lot when you don't need to then you run the risk of 're-setting' it for the want of a better word. Then you can need to go when it's not full as it's become used to emptying before it really needs to. I work in a Urology clinic sometimes and we see plenty of people that have to re-train their bladders!

LilElvis

I can honestly say that my (just) 4 year old has never peed on the ground. It's actually really, really simple. If we are going anywhere where a toilet is likely to be more than a minute or two away I have her Potette Plus folding travel potty in my bag. Even with this I wouldn't just whip it out in the middle of the street and park her bum on it! Perhaps I was just brought up to have better manners and hope that my daughter has them too.

thatgirlsam

Also I remember my son needing to go on a long journey when he was about 5, we stopped at a Little Chef and they wouldn't allow him to use the loo unless I bought something. He went in the car park. (Against the bushes not near the entrance) I understand they don't want everyone stopping to use the loo but a small child.. c'mon

GwylimT

LilElvis wrote: »

I can honestly say that my (just) 4 year old has never peed on the ground. It's actually really, really simple. If we are going anywhere where a toilet is likely to be more than a minute or two away I have her Potette Plus folding travel potty in my bag. Even with this I wouldn't just whip it out in the middle of the street and park her bum on it! Perhaps I was just brought up to have better manners and hope that my daughter has them too.

Where exactly would you use it that wouldn't require you to then walk down the road with a bowl of urine until you find a toilet, or would you pour said urine onto the floor, or do you put a urine soaked pad into your handbag, or worse a public bin.

Tropez

I honestly couldn't care less. Sure, it might not be ideal but since holding your pee can be bad for you, it's much better to go behind some bushes than to hold it all for the happiness of people who just like to get ticked off over every little thing.

On the food debate that emerged here, the local Iceland and Morrisons actively encourage customers to snack and then present the empty wrapper at the checkout. There's several signs saying it is okay.

Peter333

jaylee3 wrote: »

I don't see any harm in this as long as the food is paid for at the till before you leave the shop.. I often do my shopping, and pop a bottle of water in the trolley, then drink it when I am shopping, and pay for it at the till.

I literally see no harm in it. I pay for it before I leave the shop.

Deleted_User wrote: »

We'll I agree with the poster before. I think you should buy stuff before you open and consume. Rightfully it's not yours until you've paid.

I don't think it's right that people just go in a shop choose eat drink etc and pay on their way out. It's bad manners and disrespectful.

Bad manners and disrespectful?!. Opening a bottle of water and having a drink whilst you're doing your shopping, and then paying for it at the till with the rest of your stuff is bad manners and disrepectful?! What an over-reaction!

I could understand it if someone was walking around eating packs of sandwiches that they have opened, and plucking grapes out of the pack, and eating crisps, and chocolate and whatnot, but the poster said she opens a bottle of water and drinks some on the way round.

Some people love to over dramatise trivial things.

And as for complaining about a toddler doing a pee?!

Seriously, people must lead blessed lives, if that's all they have to whinge about; little kiddies peeing in public, and someone opening a bottle of water before paying for it!

LilElvis

GwylimT wrote: »

Where exactly would you use it that wouldn't require you to then walk down the road with a bowl of urine until you find a toilet, or would you pour said urine onto the floor, or do you put a urine soaked pad into your handbag, or worse a public bin.

It is a plastic frame with fold out legs. It has "nappy sack" type bags with an absorbent pad in the bottom to absorb urine which you hook over the potty and then tie the handles together after use.

No I don't pour urine on the floor. No I don't put the bag in a public bin.

I put the bag inside an old supermarket carrier (kept with potty) as extra protection. I then dispose of it in a nappy/sanitary bin or take it home.

Hopefully this is explanation enough to satisfy you that I am not totally ignorant and ill-mannered.

notanewuser

LilElvis wrote: »

It is a plastic frame with fold out legs. It has "nappy sack" type bags with an absorbent pad in the bottom to absorb urine which you hook over the potty and then tie the handles together after use.

No I don't pour urine on the floor. No I don't put the bag in a public bin.

I put the bag inside an old supermarket carrier (kept with potty) as extra protection. I then dispose of it in a nappy/sanitary bin or take it home.

Hopefully this is explanation enough to satisfy you that I am not totally ignorant and ill-mannered.

We have one of those too - it's superb. Ironically the one time we were out without it DD became desperate for the loo (not a wee) in the middle of an industrial estate. None of the factories would let us use the loos, the petrol station didn't have one, and the massive bingo hall wouldn't let us use theirs as allowing an under-18 in would have invalidated all of the bingo cards.

DD (3) had years rolling down her face at the stress of holding it in. We had no choice but to go behind a bush as far from the building as possible. I NEVER go out without the potette now!

Mankysteve

Buzzybee90 wrote: »

bush on a motorway.

You should only stop on hard shoulder in a emergency. Needing a wee isn't one of theming fact it would traffic offence