Random moan - what is it with people trying the cubicle door?

Ha, glad it's not just me then. The amount of times I've seen/heard people trying to lock is way over the potential 10% of men that are colour blind :p

robfosters said:
I feel awkward when people are in the toilet and I drop an absolute log. The splash makes me cringe.
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I don't think you should feel ashamed, it sounds like you're doing it right. It's the other end of the 'noise' spectrum you hear that is more disconcerting (machine gun etc.)
 
The flipside is festivals.

The amount of times people queue and only go in toilets that other people are coming out of is unbelievable.

Usually I just walk ahead of them and open the nearest toilet with the green 'unlock' sign that everyone else has been ignoring.
 
Immigrants are colour blind
Immigrants cannot read
Immigrants who can read do not understand Vacant/Occupied
Increase in Immigration

Blame immigrants.
 
I'll never forget being on a train from Newcastle to Carlisle and needing a ****. Walked down to the loo and pressed open, only to find a guy sitting there having a crap. The panic sat in and I just walked away leaving the door open! I guess he forget to press the lock button!
 
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teaboy5 said:
I'll never forget being on a train from Newcastle to Carlisle and needing a ****. Walked down to the loo and pressed open, only to find a guy sitting there having a crap. The panic sat in and I just walked over leaving the door open! I guess he forget to press the lock button!
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Ask if he minds if you wait, regardless of his response stand by the sink while he finishes, shake his hand and thank him as he leaves, eye contact throughout.
 
Those train doors are bloody brilliant though. They only operate electrically and there's a delay so panicking and spamming the button only confuses them which puts them on tilt, meaning they stop for a few seconds. Seen this happen once, the poor guy just sat there on display for all to see whilst the door just went "DUNNO LOL".

Of course they're disabled access toilets too which means they open very, very wide.
 
teaboy5 said:
I'll never forget being on a train from Newcastle to Carlisle and needing a ****. Walked down to the loo and pressed open, only to find a guy sitting there having a crap. The panic sat in and I just walked over leaving the door open! I guess he forget to press the lock button!
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Those big electronic slidey doors on trains are utterly ridiculous. Surely some designer's idea of a joke? Why would you give a toilet such a completely huge sliding door and make the locking mechanism so overly-complicated? :confused: There's no real way to know it's locked like you can with a good, big bolt. Crazy.

Seriously though, my girlfriend and I once were unfortunate to get stuck on a train full of football hooligans travelling up north for their weekly fight. They destroyed all the toilets and were larking about outside our nearest one, my poor girlfriend didn't go for 3.5hrs. Not fun.
 
I can understand why people try doors - too often if the door lock hasn't been fully placed in the open position the little red dot lies and makes folk think the toilet is in use when it isn't.

no harm in someone trying the door really, what's the worst that's gonna happen, the lock fails and they wander in while you are nipping one off - embarrassment is on them if you ask me. unless you are a nervous dumper and have to abandon ship (yes ship!) just cause someone rattled the door! :p

edit: that said I do tend to take that bit longer if someone tries the door of my depositorium. ;)
 
Thekwango said:
I can understand why people try doors - too often if the door lock hasn't been fully placed in the open position the little red dot lies and makes folk think the toilet is in use when it isn't.

no harm in someone trying the door really, what's the worst that's gonna happen, the lock fails and they wander in while you are nipping one off - embarrassment is on them if you ask me. unless you are a nervous dumper and have to abandon ship (yes ship!) just cause someone rattled the door! :p

edit: that said I do tend to take that bit longer if someone tries the door of my depositorium. ;)
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Agreed.
 
Gilly said:
Why we can't use vacant/in use any more is beyond me.
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Globalisation for you. The locks are probably made in China and marketed to over 100 different countries.

It is similar to the way that products are increasingly coming with cartoon/pictorial instructions rather than a massive book written in 15 different languages.
 
FortuitousFluke said:
Ask if he minds if you wait, regardless of his response stand by the sink while he finishes, shake his hand and thank him as he leaves, eye contact throughout.
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:p:p

Just make it clear I wanted to take a pee. For some OCD reason I cannot crap anywhere but home. Anywhere were someone could walk in I just can't do.
 
The worst loos I've ever used were in america. The doors / walls only started a foot off the ground and ended about four foot from the ceiling, bloody awful.
 
arctine said:
People are idiots. Carry on with your life.
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So you have never been in a toilet where that colour slider thing doesn't work properly? I will always check if I am not sure as well because 50% of the time, they show as red and no one is in there....
 
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