For girls only: if the girls’ toilet is engaged, do you go to the boys’ toilet?

Germangoddesss,

...chuckle ! it's one thing when an honest mistake occurs, yet totally something different when it is deliberate.

For what it's worth department...Three or four years ago, I was in line getting a ticket @ an MJR multiplex about the time a couple of other movies let out. I observed the inevitable rush and line up to the ladies room and a shorter que for the mens room. All of a sudden, a girl of 18 - 20+ something went from the ladies line and marched into the mens room in front of all the others patiently waiting, all manner of noise and ruckus followed with the lady in question being promptly ejected from the facility. One could speculate 'unisex', sadly, the prospective outcome would result in longer lines. 😄

G.N.

When ya gotta go...ya gotta go

I have no problem using the mens rest room for convenience. I must admit that I have recieved some strange looks either entering or leaving, but it has never bothered me. I was once in a stall and the fellow in the next stall stuck his foot under and tapped several timestrying to signal his intentions. When I got ready to leave I stuck a stilletto under from my side with a tampon stuck in the open toe. I could hear him hyper- ventillating as I left and bid him farewell. I can only imagine the thoughts that were going through his mind!

In New York City where I live, sometimes I've found a woman coming out from the Men's Room while I was waiting to go in. Surprise! I've used the Women's Room on occasion. These are 1-person rooms with a lock, though.

I had drunk several bottles of water while we were running around earlier and had more water there, so I had to make a trip to the little girls' room. The little girls' room is spacious and contains a toilet, sink, vanity where you can sit and repair your hair and makeup, several hand lotions, tampons and pads in the vanity drawers in case you need one, flowers, candles, beautiful paintings and the works. I walked into the bathroom and looked into the toilet and saw that it as stuffed with toilet tissue. I knew if it flushed that it would become clogged and would pour out onto the floor so I stepped out. In doing so, I ran into another girl and told her that the bathroom was out of order and why. So we decided we'd go into the boys' room, which is near the girls' room.

We asked a exiting gentleman if there was anyone else in there. He said no. So we decided to commandeer the boys' room for ourselves. I told her that I would stand at the door and keep watch for her and she said she'd do the same for me. She went and one gentleman came to the door and I told her that ours was broken and we'd be done soon.

Anyway, I went into the stall, urinated and tried to flush the toilet but it wouldn't flush. The paper did a little bit of a spin then stopped like there wasn't any water pressure. I washed my hands and opened the door to see a line of three men and with the gal who watching the door for me. The man I'd told earlier that the girls room was broken had alerted the manager so he was there to fix it. He had fixed the girls' room so he headed into the boys' and the girl and I returned to our tables.

I hve been in mens restrooms when a woman walks in. She went straight to the stall and closed the door. It was no big deal, nobody batted an eye. In the stall she had privacy just like anyone else who would go in there. At concerts I have frequently seen women going into the mens room because the line for the womens room is so long.

I use the mens room if the women's line is too long. Have done it since I was a kid. I have no shame

Lau222, I'm pretty sure that a man would go to jail for trying that stunt.

I have used the male restroom, but I would rather just go outside in the bushes than use it.

Yes, I do it just about any time - particularly when I believe I won't be holding up a man from using it. I did it at a Whole Foods a couple of weeks ago. By the way, did you ever notice that in just about every establishment the architect and owner must have been men? The men's room is always the closest one to get to.

I've used the men's room at concerts a few times and also in bars back when I still went to bars. . Men's bathrooms at concerts are the worst. I've seen guys, mostly young guys, pissing in the sinks in men's rooms at concerts, I've even seen them lined up to piss in a sink!. On the other hand I never had much of a problem with men's rooms in bars, most of the men in them pretty much ignored me while I was in there and I was in and out pretty fast.

I have not only used the boy's toilet but I have used the urinal; now that was an experience!

Sharbrain, Karma to you for using a urinal in a men's room. You've got b---no wait thats not right. You've got what it takes!

I am a cross-dresser and have used the ladies room at Macy's in Herald Square, NYC. Also did so at a couple movie theaters. the Metropolitian Museum and the Met Opera House.

In NYC there are laws that permit this as long as a lady acts like a lady.

@FrenchKitty on gay bars....

I've been in the LGBT Community Center on West 13th Street, NYC. The bathrooms are communal and decorated by famous gay artist Keith Haring.

Earlier this year my office building turned one of the women's bathrooms into a mens room. Even though they put a big sign on the door I had just finished peeing and was washing my hands when a women walked in and started fixing her hair. She looked over and saw me and asked if this was a ladies room. I nicely told her it use to be but they changed it to a mens room a few months ago. She was very embarrassed and said she was sorry and left very fast. It happens, no big deal.

First, women need to loose their inhibitions about peeing in wide open troughs like in men's bathrooms at sports events, concerts, etc. Women should have that option or at least a row of urinals of their own. Or is it better to have to make a run for the men's bathroom when they can no longer hold it?

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I have had to do that in a couple parks but i shy and lock the doors hope no one sees me

Ha ha, the rest rooms i frequent most [state park and national forest] are just the opposite, the mens are always on the "far side" even tho men must outnumber women here about 100 to one. i use the womens if the mens is occupied.

I have used the men's rooms on a number of occasions, but it depends on where I am because some public men's rooms are to ugly to even think about. In those cases if I can wait I will. On only one occasion did I ever have to do a tampon change and since there is no sani can in the men's stalls I had to use the waste can outside. Fortunately there were no guys around to notice that.

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We are in the process of making all our bathrooms at work available to everyone. They are all already designed for one user at a time. The 'pink and blue' will be gone and new signs going up. Some of the signs will make a point, others will just say 'restroom.'

I never used a public ladies restroom, but in college, a group of four coeds who shared a suite of two rooms with a shared bath between would sneak me into their suite for fun and games that always included alcohol and the resulting need to pee. The girls were pretty cool about it and even let me sit on a dressing stool and talk with them while they bathed and did their business on the potty. It was not necessarily much of a stretch as we were most always all naked anyway and most times had had group sex. Gosh, I enjoyed my college experience.

I have used the men's room on several occasions. I never heard any complaints. I also have been in the women's room when a man came in. I have never complained if the entry reason was to use the facilities. When you gotta go, you gotta go.

When I was out to work and living on site, the only bathrooms/showers were unisex. There were about 40 people (about 2 women and 38 men per building) living in a building (we each had our own bedrooms) and 1 bathroom with 3 urinals, 3 stalls, 6 sinks and 3 showers. There were never any problems I heard about. There were over a thousand people working on the site.

I've used a men's room a few times but only if someone is there to help guard it for me 😃

When a girl's gotta go a girl's gotta go. To be fair, some of my male friends have done this before too when the girls room is available but not the boys.

Building regulations routinely underestimate the number of facilities needed in women's restrooms in public places, especially in settings with intermissions during performances or showings. As women take more roles in the economy, perhaps they will correct this inequity.

Apparently, local building codes require a men's room and a women's room in business locations, even if each one has only one toilet, a sink and a locking door. As others have said, when you gotta go, you gotta go. I'll use whichever is vacant.

If I really need to go, then sure.. I don't really get why the bathrooms are separate anyway.

One time from work I attended an event at a hotel, after lunch I went to the restroom while I was there more than 80 women came to use the bathroom so at some point the hotel staff let women into the men's room, nobody die, restrooms should be unisex

I know this post says "for girls only", but quite a few men have responded already, so I'll add my 2 cents' worth.

A number of summers ago, I was traveling and camping in the eastern provinces of Canada and discovered something regarding the use of bathrooms at campsites that differed in the English provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and then in the French Quebec province.

I camped for a few days at the Forillon National Park in the Gaspe'. It is one of the most beautiful sites for a park/campground I have ever stayed at. It sits atop towering cliffs that descend straight down into the Atlantic Ocean. (But I digress, lol).

The first morning I was there I went into the men's bathroom to shower. I was in a shower stall with the door closed and soon I heard what sounded like two female voices. I turned the water off for a few seconds to be able to hear better, and sure enough, two women conversing in French. (I had know idea what they were saying). A bit of panic set in when I thought that I had gone into the women's bathroom by mistake.

I continued to shower as I heard them washing up in the sinks and brushing their teeth. I waited till I heard them leave to come out of the shower stall and immediately looked around and spotted some urinals on a far wall. Relief set in. As I exited the bathroom, I looked at the sign on the outside of the door just to make sure, and, yep, it had the international symbol for men!! When i told my girlfriend what had happened, she said she heard men's voices in the women's bathroom when she was using the toilet.

Later that day as we got friendly with some of the other campers, we asked about it and were told that in the French-speaking provincial parks it's common practice to treat all the bathrooms as unisex..If one is full, just use the other.

A couple of years ago at an outdoor performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream during the interval I along with a lot of other men went to use the urinals but the ladies queue was getting longer and longer so while I and others had a pee at the urinals ladies were coming in and using the cubicles without any complaints from either group.

However a few years ago I was visiting the RIBA in London and went in to the gents to pee and whilst actually using the urinal and in full flow a female cleaner came in and started cleaning the urinal alongside me she sprayed some sort of cleaner onto it and then waited until I’d finished to spray the one I was using before carrying on with the others. Other men were there and nobody made any comment so I took it this was a regular routine and I suppose any men who worked there and didn’t feel comfortable about this would just avoid the cleaning times.

I’ve never seen a woman using a urinal and wouldn’t have thought that possible but reading this page I see I’m wrong, perhaps one day I’ll be lucky enough to see it for myself!

When playing sports in high school and college, at away games they almost always gave the visiting team the boys' locker room & bathroom to use. On a few occasions we had a guy come in by accident to grab something out of a locker, only to be confronted by a group of semi-clothed girls aggressively harassing him to get out. Always funny.

I have used the men's bathroom in restaurants and bars because sometimes the line for the women's bathroom is 20 people long, and I know I wouldn't be able to hold it that long. I always knock. Some men have been surprised by me coming out, but there's never been a complaint.