Using a Bathroom in a Plane
#46
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 15
Im very suprised to read how many of you disapprove of the aircraft lavatories. True, they are the smallest possible water closet you might imagine, but to a 6'0" guy like me with extra-long legs and arms the loo can be a releiving place to stand up and take the load off my butt.
Case in point, I'd been keeping my 2-year old daughter busy on the LAX-EWR-LAX AAL B752 (a small, uncomfortable aircraft however noteworthly her performance is for the flight crew) and the lav was a great place to enjoy some peace and quiet standing up without enduring the stares of 100 eyes.
Case in point, I'd been keeping my 2-year old daughter busy on the LAX-EWR-LAX AAL B752 (a small, uncomfortable aircraft however noteworthly her performance is for the flight crew) and the lav was a great place to enjoy some peace and quiet standing up without enduring the stares of 100 eyes.
#48
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 1,320
Yeah, I think I would rather just wear diapers. Is it strange that I never understood why George was funny? Seemed pretty normal to me. (Just kidding)
#49
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 321
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I try to avoid the lav on short haul flights, but on trans-pacific flights to Japan and beyond there is simply no avoiding them. I don't feel the least bit claustrophobic however, if anything the lav probably offers more personal private space than anywhere else on the plane (unless you fly business or first). Where else can you drop your pants and do anything you wish without having to worry about other passengers around you.
#50
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: New York City
Programs: AA Platunum
Posts: 498
My husband and I have a joke that my bladder must shrink up to nothing the moment I get on an airplane.
On any normal day, I can go for hours without having to use the bathroom, but the moment a plane takes off - even though I used the ladies room in the airport - I need to visit the lav and have to continously all through the flight. Usually about every hour to hour and a half.
The most embarrassing is when I come back from from a trip to the lav, sit in my seat and have to go again 30 seconds later. I hate that!
Yes, I always request an aisle seat!
BTW...Men, you're not at home. Please, put the seat down when you're finished!
On any normal day, I can go for hours without having to use the bathroom, but the moment a plane takes off - even though I used the ladies room in the airport - I need to visit the lav and have to continously all through the flight. Usually about every hour to hour and a half.
The most embarrassing is when I come back from from a trip to the lav, sit in my seat and have to go again 30 seconds later. I hate that!
Yes, I always request an aisle seat!
BTW...Men, you're not at home. Please, put the seat down when you're finished!
#51
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: lax
Posts: 3,874
It's only fecal matter, easily washed off. But check your shoes after.
#52
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: SNA/LAX/LGB
Posts: 101
I was on a commuter plane a few months ago that was filled with a young group of boys (7-9 years old?). I was lucky enough to use the restroom after a few of the boys had used it. (I couldn't hold it anymore -- a tight connection didn't allow me time to use the restroom in the terminal). These boys had to have had the worst aim possible, the restroom floor was covered in urine and the whole place reeked. I was desperate but was also wearing very long pants with my 3" heels. I tried to cover the floor with papertowels to absorb some of the moisture and then had to keep my pants hiked to my knees (to keep them from touching the floor) while trying not to touch anything near the toilet with any part of my body. It was painful but thankfully, I believe the only contaminated part of me when I left the restroom was the soles of my shoes. It was disgusting.
I still don't understand how anyone can walk in a public restroom in their barefeet!
I still don't understand how anyone can walk in a public restroom in their barefeet!
#53
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: DTW
Programs: AA EXP, DL FO
Posts: 1,719
Just like when I was poor and rode the greyhound I never even thought about using their bathrooms on the bus.
#54
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#56
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 78
Eww. They're the same feet that have gone bare-footed through the check point, so if I were you, I'd be disgusted and worried, and walk in with my shoes on....or lay down the blanket that are left on the seats :-p
Last edited by New-Flyer; Jan 5, 2007 at 4:56 am
#58
Join Date: May 2005
Location: MD
Programs: WorldPerks
Posts: 242
The meganoise is from the flow caused by pressure differences. The larger the difference, the ouder the noise.
#59
Join Date: May 2005
Location: MD
Programs: WorldPerks
Posts: 242
I find that incomprehensible too. Even with shoes on I feel gross sometiems when I I have to step on the floor, knowing that I walk into my house with the same shoes.
#60
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 15
Oh and when I have something delivered, I lay down old sheets so they don't touch my floors/carpets.