I go to the loo every morning at about 10 o'clock, regular as clockwork and have done for years. Now where I work the factory is downstairs and the girls in the office are upstairs. Last week we had the builders in to make some changes.The toilets are now upstairs right next to the girls and the walls are paper thin!!I have my first cigarette about 9.45 which makes me want to use the loobut since monday I've had to hold it in! noww my insides are in bits!! I reckon I'm doing some damageEven if i dont have a ciggie i still need the loo.It's making me ill. What can I do? I cant think of anything ??
2006-09-13 12:42:23 · 45 answers · asked by karlos 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
bring it up with your union. might be able to squeeze something from management.
2006-09-13 12:52:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ignore the girls next door the other side of the paper thin walls. Have a great big dump as and when you need it. Holding it in will clog up your insides and make you explode (or something).
If you can make it a noisy smelly dump, so much the better - the noise will tell people that the toilet is occupied, and the smell will give the same information to deaf people.
Seriously, if not going to the loo is making you ill, then go to the loo.
2006-09-13 12:49:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's funny at all. I think I may have an answer for you that will work instantly and solve your problem. I am assuming the stalls have doors on them and that they are inside another room, so you have VISUAL privacy for starters. It's probably the noises we're concerned with here, yes? Okay. Do you know what I would do? When I got seated and ready to do my business, (I am serious about this) I would close my eyes gently and cover my ears and press hard with my hands over them. I would do whatever I had to do and then reach around and flush. Then I would finish whatever and simply leave with no comment at all. Everyone uses the toilet. I do. You do. Even the boss does. I am not making light of your problem. Anyone makes you uncomfortable about it needs to grow up. I think plugging your ears while you are busy will help you solve the problem on the spot. Please at least give it a try. No need to defend the fact you may make noises. We all do. It is - get this, now - impossible not to. Sent to you with lots of respect for a sensitive issue, from Chris in South Portland, Maine, U.S.A. (I am 63 years old, and sometimes I actually flush the toilet just to create some noise, it depends on the mood I'm in.)
2006-09-13 13:29:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you make noise, big deal. Every guy there (except Dirty Steve) has the same fear going on. Once you break the ice so to speak with the noise thing, others will follow and they'll give your loo back downstairs or reinforce the walls upstairs. When you leave the loo yell "top that Becky Lou!!!"
2006-09-13 12:52:29 · answer #4 · answered by hartovalion 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try flushing at the same time as going, it will hide any noise. You might want to try eating in the morning earlier than you normally do to aide you going to the lav a little earlier in the day. Do not hold on to it, you can make yourself really ill in the end and end up in the state where you are really suffering. Try to get past being so embarrassed, it's human nature, we all have to go at some point and most people aren't quite so considerate and sensitive. Hope you feel better soon.
2006-09-13 13:16:01 · answer #5 · answered by literary_angel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok -I may be a sucker here, but I am going to assume your question is genuine.
You can train your body to use the bathroom at different times. Eventually you will have to go, and I understand wanting complete privacy. If you insist on being a smoker, change the time for first cigarette, and breakfast as well. Eventually you can train your body to go before work...it may take some work but it can be done.
Or take a break during that morning time and find another place with a bathroom. You know go out for a walk, find a cafe for that cig. and coffee.
2006-09-13 12:55:16 · answer #6 · answered by chris 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remember that everyone has to use the loo so dont be embarrassed! girls poo too u know! U carry on this way u can make urself faeces incontinent by damaging the sphincter musclesand that would surely be more embarrassing! alternatively, buy the girls in the office a radio with the volume set to very high and they wont be listening whilst they r singing along to some tunes!
2006-09-14 12:30:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just go to the loo for goodness sake eveything alive poos. If it helps there is an old Army trick to help, you just have to put a bit of tissue down the loo first to stop sounds. Your health is much more important, you can end up with piles or more severly a twist in your colon
2006-09-14 08:21:38 · answer #8 · answered by Emma O 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I'm laughing but it is a real deli-ma for sure I guess you'll have to find a new place to toddy where you can be comfortable and I'm sorry but it is a definitely a problem it seems to me. If you don't go then yes your messing up your system but if you do go then you can relax for the rest of the time.I think I'd just do it and move on fast lol Good Luck
2006-09-13 12:51:33 · answer #9 · answered by yahoo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most guys would not care about this but it seems that you are a decent guy. is there a walmart around you? they have these little tiny radios there for like 5 dollars in the toy section start carrying that around with you and when you use the "loo" take it in there with you and turn the radio up and they should be able to hear you hope this helps
2006-09-13 12:51:46 · answer #10 · answered by Jenna 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just go to the loo for goodness sake, your doing your inside harm by not going when you need to, girls go too you know and if they think less of you for going then there not worth your time are they, now get to that loo OK.
2006-09-14 04:21:55 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋