Using a Bathroom in a Plane
 

Is it just me or are there other people out there who just try and avoid using the bathrooms on the planes? I just get a closterfobic felling in them and don't like getting bounced around while trying to go... I do give most airlines credit though as they are always clean!

I know exactly what you mean. The cramped quarters in addition to my morbid fear of dying with my pants around my ankles makes using a lavatory a very harrowing experience for me.

I too avoid them, and frequently fly LAX-SYD and SYD-LAX without using one at all. I can't understand how some just have to go on a 90 minute flight. I'll take a regular bathroom any day.

Going accross the Atlantic I usually use it perhaps once.

Inter-European flights are pretty short and so really: who would want to, if you do not have to?

It always surprises me when we already have a line for the lav-during boarding!:confused:

You just left an airport terminal-some w/ nice lav facilities. This is one of those pax qirrks I'll never understand.

I'm not a doc-but this can't be good for you...

I'm not a doc-but this can't be good for you...reminds me of that old Seinfeld episode where George didn't go to the bathroom the whole time he was in India.;)

Funniest post in weeks. AWESOME!~!

The need to use a bathroom varies greatly from person to person and even the same person's need varies depending on a variety of factors. My friend's wife refers to the first pee after a few beers as "breaking the seal". It always seem the need comes again soon no matter how long you've held off the first one.

I'm sure most pax don't use the lav unless they have to. But of course, there must be some who find the small space comforting or otherwise enjoyable. It really does take all kinds.

I don't know what it is but ever since i was young, the noise that the toilet makes when you flush it... scares the life out of me!!!!

If I am waiting in the Karachi Airport departure lounge, I will wait till I get onboard the plane to go to the washroom. :eek:

I typically try to avoid the bathroom on flights < 3 hours. On flights longer than that...say to HNL or transcon, I'll probably make a pit stop. And I make it a point to always use the rest room before boarding if time permits.

I too try not to use the bathrooms on the plane, and I do understand that other folks may not be able to wait especially when flying across country, but my pet peeve is when folks wait for the flight crew to start serving drinks and half the plane get up to use the bathroom, and the crew has to constantly push their carts out of the way to let paseengers through!

If I get too Klosterphillic I tend to go quite often.

LOL. I don't think I have EVER used a toilet at Karachi airport (old or new). I think I tried going to the one accross from the McDonalds in Pod 2 but decided I didn't want to experience any exotic aroma's that might be coming from there.

If I could take a book in and not worry about a line forming outside, I would spend the whole flight in the lav.

Maybe because the flight crew starts serving drinks before the fasten seatbelt indicators turn off? :confused:

I actually went in once. It is an experience I would not like to repeat in the near future. Plus, the EK/PK onboard washrooms are actually quite nice. ^

I once had a gal next to me who did not move for the entire 9 hour flight. I kept asking if she needed to go to the toilet as I was on the aisle seat.

I have no issue using it.

sleep!
 

I have no fear no inhibition about using the lavs on board, but I did sleep (with no medicinal help) for 12 hours from TLV-JFk about 2 years ago, and never moved. The people on either side of me (I was in the middle of 5) were surprised to say the least as they commented to my traveling companion.

I try to not use the lav if possible, but I have on a flight that was 45 minutes. Why? Because I had a tight connection and had to go, but instead of going to the bathroom in the airport and missing my plane I went right to the boarding area.

I mainly don't like leaving my seat because I don't trust other pax, yet I can't bring my stuff w/ me into the lav without looking odd.

my feeling exactly! some of them are pretty extreme huh! ;)

and leaves me wondering how the thing actually works? why the meganoise, and how is it all then unloaded? :rolleyes: (grateful for any info link or somethin :) )

I don't know how I can do it, but my blader will hold out on a red-eye long haul out of HNL to points west of the Mississippi. Going to HNL is another story, however. I've always got to use the lav at least once.

The one thing that kills me (not literally) when using the lav is when the air gets too dry, a big shock greets me whenever I touch the metal door knob on the lav door. :(

Great misspelling by the OP! ^

What do you have in your carryon ... diamonds? Oh wait, there was that thread about worst seatmates. Is your bag full of the Book of Mormon when you get back to your seat?

Something about flying makes me pee.
Pressure changes, I guess.

Oh, and the coffee on Delta makes it worse....

They are not always clean on <airline name redacted to protect the guilty but I bet you can figure it out.> On occasion, I've been reminded of how gas station toilets used to be in the 60s. Ick.

Don't jump to conclusions. Maybe it's the odd wife.

I have and will continue to use the bathrooms on airplanes, even on the commuter jets.

Stuff happens. I try not to give any undue cause.

I know somebody who does pretty much that on long flights if he is in the middle seat. Apparently the FAs usually get worried after an hour or so, but he just tells them he has a bad stomach, and they let him be after that. Pretty gross if you ask me, but each to his own.

A great feature of audiobooks -- you can continue listening after you leave your seat.

i thought this was bad too but most people can sleep through the night without going to the bathroom, unless you drink a lot of water right before falling asleep.

An hour? I've had them knock on the door after five minutes. I don't try to hog the lav, but on a long flight I have to wash up somehow. I finally figured out a way to brush my teeth in my seat, kinda have to since I don't want to rinse my mouth with the non-potable water in the lav, but I still have to wash my face and so on.

I'm curious also. Suspect negative air pressure or something. You certainly don't want any blackflow from the holding tank. :eek:

Similar question: is there some sort of mechanical failure that would cause the entire lav to be awash in water? Say 1+ inch on the floor, but also sprayed all over the walls and ceiling? This was water, clear, neither yellow nor blue. It was my first trip to Asia, on an Asian carrier. LAX-NRT-KUL-MAA and I only used the the lav that one time, thinking bad thoughts about entire countries and my fellow passeners, or that the plumbing was just overwhelmed by the number of people in Y. Later I realized it was like some waterline blew and spewed water all over the lav. The return flight had no such problem, and after 3 weeks in India I had reprioritized anyway.

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I use the lav if I have to and don't use it if I don't have to. I never before thought that was odd....

The vacuum toilets operate at 3psi for about 4 seconds, which is provided by a pump at low altitude or outside pressure at high altitude. The main plus is they take just 2 liters or less to flush.

Mythbusters on Discovery tested the myth that you could get stuck (or worse) on a vacuum toilet if you were sitting on it when it flushed.

Since there is no longer a holding tank actually in the lav the only way to have that kind of water is a broken water line.

BTW, Did you know that the toilet flush water comes from the same tank as the potable "drinking" water tank? The only thing separating the toilet bowl sprayers from the water tank is a one-way (we hope it never breaks) check valve.

Bottoms Up!

:D :D

and :confused:

I sometimes prefer the lavs on the plane over the lavs in the terminal. Especially if you're the first to use it on the plane it's cleaner than the lavs in the terminal. Never thought that would be strange until now...

HTB.

Slightly realted to the topic.

Can someone please explain to me why people use the lav in their stocking feet or worse yet barefoot?! Now that grosses me out every time I see it (especially on a domestic U.S. flight) :eek: