Posted on 11/11/2006 4:54:47 AM PST by MadIvan
Using the toilet makes you vulnerable. You're in a little space where you have no view, you can't move because you're engaged in a bodily function over which you have limited control, and you're in various stages of undress.
Which makes me wonder, is this why men seem to take so much satisfaction in being able to "go" on the top of something?
..Loos in the UK are just fine. They do not harbor monster hairy spiders...
Then why do I have to witness 2 hooligans urinating on the wall at Victoria station behind the bus stop at rush hour waiting for No 82 Bus? (With the ubiquotous 2 liter beer can in the other hand)... and about the young(?)lady defecating in the plaza in front of Westminster Cathedral at 8AM on my way to work...
Some Londoners must have such a Loo Phobia that they would rather do it on the streets. Is that the reason for this behavior?
Regards, Ivan
For me it was "Hiku".
And yes I know how to spell haiku :)
Now my heart has healed because of "Wu".
(4 pound female Yorkie w/ a puppy cut)
I'm waiting for someone who actually suffers from this phobia, to chime in and point out how cruel you all are for POO-POO-ing this terrible affliction.
Regards, Ivan
We both can be Right, y'know. Right, not nice. Regards.
Either we are equal or we are not. Good people should be armed where they will, with wits and guns.
Believe it or not. It's the truth! I work in lab in a medical clinic. One of our female patients told me she can't give a urine sample at the clinic, and could she please take the container home and collect it there? She has sometimes been in the clinic bathroom for 20 -30 minutes without producing a sample. She admits it's psychological and told me she goes shopping only on short expeditions so she can go back home and use her own bathroom!
I spoke with this one earlier...she knows how to use your phone. She says she'll be clingining to the underside of the bowl all day today, waiting for you to come in and have a seat.
She also says, by the way, that Ivan is quite handsome, even from her accustomed angle.
If I had to use a public toilet, then I'd be scared to! Have you seen those things?
Oh bloody hell.
Regards, Ivan
OK, I've pulled myself together now.
That was not nice!
I really was not expecting that, and I really did scream very loudly!
Mean, mean, mean boys.
Spiders have too many legs.
;)
Well, I don't personally ahve a problem with using public facilities, but I do have recurring dreams about going into a public bathroom which has water all over the floor and bits and pieces of wet toilet paper on the floor. Often the dream goes back to the first public school I was in, an old yellow-brick building with the toilets in the basement. It's sort of humorous, as I cannot remember the bathrooms there being dirty at all. So it's a strange sort of bathroom phobia, but only in my dreams.
I also think it's a female thing. you guys just do not appreciate how much easier you have it with public bathrooms. HaHa! Boo Hoo!
Regards, Ivan
I understand that it would be downright ungentlemanly of me to celebrate Mrs. Ivan's discomfiture. At the same time, it's difficult for me to apologize with any sincerity between fits of giggling.
My better instincts tell me I ought to make nice, so...
Please, Mrs. Ivan, I'm sorry. I won't do that to you again.
They have a toothbrush phobia as well.
If I had a fiver for every single time a British bad teeth joke was said here, I'd be able to buy Microsoft. It's neither original or true. Or funny for that matter.
Ivan
No worries (but don't laugh too much).
Around spiders I am a wimp, especially large, scary, unexpected spiders.
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