To this day I still don't shit in public bathrooms.
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I guess it's partly a desire for privacy and partly social anxiety. Don't get me wrong, if I were about to shit myself I absolutely would use a public restroom. I'd just prefer to use my own bathroom.
Now matter how much you know that everyone shits, kids are fucking monsters and will never let you live it down, especially if you're not "popular" or able to play into it (anxiety) or just tell the kid to stfu (anxiety, size, intimidation).
Christ people are bathroom shy. I’m like yeah genius, this is where you take a shit. Where do you go on the floor of your kitchen?
Wait, you folks had stall doors?
No joke, real story, in second grade the restrooms didn't even have stall doors.
Catholic school?
Damn, that’s simply cruel. Despite the fact that kids would hang on the doors and pound like howler monkeys.
Even my high school had bathroom doors… it’s criminal they expect teenagers to shit with the door wide open.
Damn
The school trends that made me not use public bathrooms.
kicking the doors of the person shitting.
Throwing wet toilet paper at the person shitting.
Pouring water over the stall.
Stealing the shoes of the person shitting.
Pushing people into the urinal wall.
Pissing on the floor.
Turn the lights off so the person in the stall is left in pitch black.
I think there is a significant difference between US and EU bathroom doors.
Doors?
No, seriously, the only time I had a toilet with a door in public school was in kindergarten. After that, no doors on the toilets.
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Most of us knew where our hands had been at that age, not to mention most don’t wash their hands.
I only held it in at school because my parents taught me that public restrooms are extremely dirty. It took a while to get over my phobia of public restrooms, but I needed to since it's gotten harder to hold it in (and it's bad to do so anyway). Reading some of the replies here, I knew kids were often psychos but sheesh.
Looking back, it tended to ease off in high school. At least for me.
"Is that you, [name]?" (Name guessed correctly)
Well, shit.
My kid wouldn't go to the bathroom at all during middle school. Said he would rather hold it.
Your sons smart. He’s better off avoiding potential bullying from the older kids.
Hit 'em with "Want to join me?"
