Public restroom poll

[sequins]

Wait or leave and check back after a few minutes.

[pagas]

Use the other.

[kaylie]

Use the other one.

[Nonny]

Depends on how badly I need to pee.

[lilac05]

Wait, unless I'm sick/it's an emergency.

[mrsukyankee]

Depends. Is there a big line for the women's room and none for the men? I'll use it. If I'm one away from the ladies' then I'll wait unless I'm in major need.

[lintscreen]

Mar 26, 2015 16:50:36 GMT -5 Nonny said:

Depends on how badly I need to pee.

This.  I've used the men's before in emergencies or when there's a line of 10 women waiting and nobody in the men's.

[ginger]

Wait. Men's rooms are gross.

[rachers]

Wait unless absolutely couldn't

[auntie]

Depends on the kind of place. At a nicer restaurant I generally slip into the mens room. At the local bar or pizza shop where there are more men than women, I wait.

[Serenity9]

Usually wait.

But I'll use the men's in some circumstances. If the women's is taking a really long time, I really have to go, and I'm in a more casual venue (at a bar; yes. At a fancy restaurant; no).

[circa1978]

Wait.

ETA: Am I vomiting or about to vomit? Because that might change my answer. 

[Serenity9]

Mar 26, 2015 16:55:50 GMT -5 auntie said:

Depends on the kind of place. At a nicer restaurant I generally slip into the mens room. At the local bar or pizza shop where there are more men than women, I wait.

Huh, funny that we're opposite on the circumstances.

[cheeseandcrackers]

Since being pregnant i've always used the other one. Whatever, I have a good excuse lol.

[MixedBerryJam]

If I really have to go, and I am with a man who can stand guard outside, and I'm at least a little confident the men's room isn't disgusting, I'll use it. But the only men I'm ever with any more are my sons and OMG they would effing DIE, I mean literally, DIE, if I made them stand guard for me while I use a men's room. So I guess my answer is "Never any more but I used to."

[Muddled]

Use the men's.
Unless it's gross.

[Deleted]

Usually wait unless I have to go super bad.

[calle28]

Depends. When I'm at a restaurant, I wait. When I'm at a bar and I'm drunk, I use the other one.

[auntie]

Mar 26, 2015 16:56:21 GMT -5 Serenity9 said:

Usually wait.

But I'll use the men's in some circumstances. If the women's is taking a really long time, I really have to go, and I'm in a more casual venue (at a bar; yes. At a fancy restaurant; no).

LOL, I'm looking to avoid getting caught. Nice restaurants tend to have the bathrooms tucked away and the mens room tend to be identical to the ladies in terms of facilities and cleanliness. I am looking to avoid the scented urinal cake at all costs.

Divier places I frequent have the bathrooms in higher traffic areas or visible from the tables/bar.

[Elsa]

Wait unless it's dd who needs to go. Then use the other.

[Serenity9]

Mar 26, 2015 17:02:54 GMT -5 auntie said:

Mar 26, 2015 16:56:21 GMT -5 Serenity9 said:

Usually wait.

But I'll use the men's in some circumstances. If the women's is taking a really long time, I really have to go, and I'm in a more casual venue (at a bar; yes. At a fancy restaurant; no).

LOL, I'm looking to avoid getting caught. Nice restaurants tend to have the bathrooms tucked away and the mens room tend to be identical to the ladies in terms of facilities and cleanliness. I am looking to avoid the scented urinal cake at all costs.

Divier places I frequent have the bathrooms in higher traffic areas or visible from the tables/bar.

I'm thinking more about whether people would care if they did catch me. Some dude at a bar is probably not going to care. A 60 year old guy with khakis and reading glasses is more likely to disapprove.

[speckledfrog]

Wait

[Deleted]

Wait. Men are dirty especially when it comes to public washrooms.

[captainobvious]

Wait unless not waiting would lead to me calling a pants person.

[sapphireblue]

Generally I wait. I have done it on occasion though.

[MixedBerryJam]

Mar 26, 2015 17:15:48 GMT -5 @stpete said:

I'm with serenity a dive bar I will use the men's room and a nice place I will not. Unless I really have to go.

Also, MixedBerryJam why do you need a guard? Isn't there a lock on single stall restrooms everywhere?

Eh, I suppose I don't need one; I guess I don't want to pop out of a men's room all "Hey, Surprise!" unannounced in front of a line of menfolk. He wouldn't be a guard so much as an announcer. 

[pittsmcgee]

Wait.
Unless I've reached that point of drunkness where I'm just not giving a shit

[open24hours]

Mar 26, 2015 17:11:48 GMT -5 @teabag said:

Wait. Men are dirty especially when it comes to public washrooms.

Women  can be gross too.

Signed, the woman who found a used tampon lying in the middle of a restroom floor.

[gault]

Use the dude room

[MixedBerryJam]

Mar 26, 2015 18:07:28 GMT -5 kevin arnold said:

Mar 26, 2015 17:19:46 GMT -5 MixedBerryJam said:

Eh, I suppose I don't need one; I guess I don't want to pop out of a men's room all "Hey, Surprise!" unannounced in front of a line of menfolk. ;

Dude, that's the best part! Watch the look on their face as they panic for a second thinking they accidentally walked into the ladies room!

All this time I've been doing it wrong!