Maddening.
woah
The unisex toilets are doored off singular units, with no stalls. Like a ability toilet now, but several of them. So essentially theyāre more private.
oh i see, that sounds fair enough
yeah i could understand why they might have been concerned by the idea of normal school bathrooms being unisex, but the above sounds great, so their reaction is quite weird unless theyāve just willingly failed to understand the actual situation so they can have a little reactionary moan.
Spoilers ffs
Using the toilets in secondary school was just a horrible experience. Always tried to go in lesson time when it was quiet, breaktimes were a hotbed of neāer-do-wells shoving folk who were pissing so youād stumble into the urinal, or pulling your trousers right down, or just pointing at a urinators willy and claiming it was in some way deformed so that rumour would follow them around for the rest of their time there irrespective of the veracity. Woebetide anybody who ever entered a cubicle.
Teenage boys are horrible lawless monsters.
One of my mates at school was at the toilet for a few minutes longer than what was deemed ānormalā by us. This ended up with a long-running joke that he was obviously drinking water out of toilets.
I think I would agree with you on that one
Virtually never used them.
Definitely never had a shit - no locks on the stalls and that glossy toilet paper.
School was a split site so time between lessons was spent walking between buildings. I canāt even remember there being any toilets in one of the buildings and in the other it was miles from any classroom down a maze of corridors.
Donāt remember anyone ever being allowed to leave the classroom to go the toilet. Itās a wonder no one pissed themselves really although yeah maybe nobody drank. Do kids constantly drink water these days? Bet they do.
At my very small primary school the boys toilets had one cubicle, and you could go in, lock the door, then climb on the seat, onto the cistern, then over the door to leave it locked but with no one in it.
One time Tom went in there to do it but he was too heavy and the cistern came off the wall and smashed EVERYWHERE, was the most shocking thing Iād ever seen. He came out of the door absolutely sobbing, I donāt think he even got in trouble as he was so clearly traumatised.
find it incredible that so many people apparently never pissed as children
Not many memories of them to be honest. Someone crapped in a urinal once and word got round so everyone popped in to have a look, until the caretaker sorted it. Kids are weird.
Tbf at my old work there used to be an unidentified someone would occasionally leave a forearm-sized* poo in the gents and whoever spotted it would have a quite word to tell people to go have a look, so maybe itās justā¦ men.
*I know this sounds like an exaggeration, but every time Iād assume it had grown in my mindās eye and every time it happened again it was as big as I thought
This happened on a school trip once, someone did a turd the size of a Stella can in their hotel room toilet and everyone in the corridor was running in and out of their room to take a look, until eventually a teacher caught wind of all the commotion and came to investigate. The look on her face will live with me forever.
The staff toilets were out of order one day so Mr Brinded had to use the kids toilets and obviously used the cubicle rather than the urinals but then we started a rumour that he couldnāt wee standing up.
In year 2 we had a brand new teacher and she tried to lay down the law so said not to bother asking to go to the toilet. We could go during our breaks. 25 minutes into the first lesson of the year a kid wet himself
This is a huge fear of mine as a teacher. Iād feel so so awful I always let kids go / after X is back etc (wasnāt born yesterday)
Legit donāt remember ever using the toilets at school, which baffles me. I must have gone, right? Odd.
Same here - except I remember going in primary school but not secondary. Why the memory block there?