<p>I don't like it when people can hear me use the bathroom. I don't usually like using public bathrooms, but will do it if I absolutely need to.
How bad are using the bathrooms in your residence halls?</p>
<p>Couple of options to avoid letting people hear you in the bathroom:</p>
<p>(1) Flush the toilet repeating before doing your business (and sometimes during)
(2) If there are one of those hand dryers, press it before entering the stall and proceed to doing your business
(3) Wait until the bathroom is completely empty, even if it means sitting (or standing) in the stall until everyone gets out. Then proceed to doing your business.
(4) Hold it in forever
(5) Sat “Screw it!” and do your business loudly, but rush out of there after wiping, while hiding your face so no one recognizes you. Hide your shoes also. People always like to look at the shoes to see who left a stink bomb in stall 2.</p>
<p>I know how you feel but the thing is everyone else is going to be doing their business as well soo… get used to it, I guess. : o )</p>
<p><a href=“1”>quote</a> Flush the toilet repeating before doing your business (and sometimes during)
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Don’t do it if you even care a little bit about this world. This would waste way too much water in a way that there is no justification for. </p>
<p>Sorry it just ****es me off if people waste things like that.</p>
<p>^right on silence.</p>
<p><a href=“3”>quote</a> Wait until the bathroom is completely empty, even if it means sitting (or standing) in the stall until everyone gets out. Then proceed to doing your business.
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<p>My friend has HORRIBLE pee anxiety and this is what she does. Works out well enough I suppose.</p>
<p>So I can’t edit my post, but to avoid further offending and outcries over toilet flushing :rolleyes:, just stick to #3 if you are still scared about using the bathroom in public.</p>
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<p>Of all the things to get angry about…</p>
<p>Seriously, OP, it’s not that big of a deal. Everyone knows why people are in the bathroom. Consider this a great opportunity to get over your fear!</p>
<p>Or you can just get over it.</p>
<p>You aren’t doing anything unusual in there, and everyone knows that. You only make it more awkward for yourself trying to hide it like you’re ashamed.</p>
<p>Lmao! I’m the same way, as probably are most people. In my building, there is one bathroom for every two rooms, and the walls are thin, and I have to listen to people poop a few times a day… I try to just tune it out or play music/a video, and I have a small fan on my desk that helps. When it’s time for me to go, I try to just be really quiet sometimes, sometimes I go to the public bathroom in the basement (No one is ever in there at night.), and sometimes I just screw it and let it rip for my roommate to hear. I’m still getting used to that part of being here…</p>
<p>I don’t really care about stuff like that, but I know you could reduce it by using public bathrooms around campus. Maybe you can find some obscure bathroom no one’s using and do whatever in there. I know people who swear by this method, claiming a secret restroom, and of course it doesn’t always work, but you can maybe at least find a single-person bathroom.</p>
<p>Peeing shouldn’t be a problem. Really. Nobody gives a damn.</p>
<p>But pooing is admittedly embarrassing. I do the flushing method too.</p>
<p>You do the flushing method while going #2?</p>
<p>That’s absolutely nasty.
Just think about all the fecal matter thats getting all over you.</p>
<p>Forget the fact that it wastes water, the problem with that is that every time you flush the toilet while sitting on it, you’re getting sprayed with whatever is in there.</p>
<p>But yeah, to the op, get over it. No one gives a damn if they can hear you go to the bathroom.</p>
<p>Were it not for the fact that so many people go on and on about public pooping phobias, I am convinced I would NOT have to resist the urge to giggle every time I hear someone going number 2 in a public bathroom. I really don’t think it’s funny, but then I think, “they are probably really embarrassed lololol.” People like you cause your own problem!</p>
<p>I agree with Johnson181– flushing the toilet repeatedly in an attempt to drown out the sounds of your business = HORRIBLE hygiene. The average toilet shoots out disgusting particles a few feet high so if possible, close the lid before flushing or get out of the area.</p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t think anyone in the restroom at the same time as you care. As long as it’s not TOO loud, you should be fine. Just don’t leave the stall for a while or something(?), it’s not that bad. xD;</p>
<p>Sometimes it is necessary to flush the toilet while pooping due to lack of space available.</p>
<p>^ Exactly. That’s what I meant when I said flushing repeatedly. I guess I worded it wrong and it was misunderstood as flushing after a flush continuously.</p>
<p>So you’d flush once while doing it, a second time in case you have to do more, and then maybe again after you wiped. It’s not wise to poop and then have a bunch of toilet paper in there for one flush. It will clog the toilet and even cause an overflow.</p>
<p>I’m sorry if I offended anyone about this suggestion. I didn’t think it would irate the one or two people who responded.</p>
<p>Yeah, if you plan to flush the toilet more than once, definitely sit up so that the water doesn’t blast (hopefully you wiped at least once before getting up)</p>
<p>Aaaand I think this thread is turning into a “TMI” moment thanks to me. :p</p>
<p>If you’re living in a dorm EVERYONE is going to be using the bathroom at some point. The least you can hope for is to use the bathroom at a time when the traffic is low. But trust me, at first, everyone is awkward about it, but as time goes by, no one cares. We’re all human after all.</p>
<p><.< just get one of those noise machine makers they have in japan and carry it with you.</p>
<p>it makes music. Look it up on thejapanchannel on youtube</p>