Don’t Take It To Heart

I don’t know what to say and I don’t know what you want me to say. 

So it happened and things don’t always go as you planned or hoped. But God’s got something else for you. Sure it can be hard to accept but you’re a tough girl. You can do it! Just don’t take it to heart ok?

Awkward In Public Toilets

Have you ever gone to the toilet in public?

Ummm if you’re normal, and as gross as some experiences can be, you probably have.

So what do you do? I mean for us girls, I know it’s awkward, you’re straddling over the toilet seat, if there is one, trying not to contaminate yourself with some disgusting genital disease… and that’s the easy part.

Now you gotta pee without anyone knowing! Ok for those of you who have no idea what I am talking about, or the few of you who seem to be blessed with lucky bladders and have never had to go in public, I will explain. So when you go to the toilet. You usually want to get in there and just get back out again yeah? (Well unless you are like those blokes reading the car magazines… ewww). But if you have ever peed in public you will know that it is kind of awkward when you hear that trickling sound, whether it be yours or someone elses. Maybe you don’t know anyone in the cubicle or maybe it’s at school and you’re scared everyone else outside is waiting to find out who it is that is peeing so embarrassingly loud.  So you try your hardest to keep quiet. Isn’t it funny the harder you try to be quiet the louder it seems? I mean at home you wouldn’t even notice it, but now that it matters it feels like the sound is being amplified through a PA system.

Anyway unless you want to take all day, which most of us don’t as the toilets are so grotty, and unless you are willing to let it go drop by drop, you’ve got to find a way to speed it up. I think all sources say it is impossible to pee quietly when you want to.

So the answer is to find a way of concealing the sound. Ok for me, if it’s at school or some place and there is a friend in there with me, I’ll be like “Ok I’m gunna sing really loud so you can’t hear me pee ok!?” before I start belting out “la, la, la, la, la”. Or have a peeing competition to see who can pee the loudest haha. Good times!

But it seems the most viable excuse to cover up the sound is by walking in, flicking their wrist as they turn the tap full ball, leaving it on the entire time they do their business.

Ok, ok, I gotta admit I have done it before but after I though about it, I would much rather be embarrassed for 20 seconds than take 20 years off someone’s life by wasting valuable water. Seriously, so many girls at school do it and it is just sad. It is sad that they feel that embarrassed to turn the tap on in the first place but it is sad that they care more about their image (or sound :P) than the environment.

Trust me I am not some environmental guru. I’ll leave my radio on all day or what ever but it’s about motives.

So it’s fess up time. Do you get embarrassed when you pee in public?  Have you ever wasted a few litres of water to conceal your trickling noises? Or if you haven’t and this is new to you, what do you think about it?