it was like a sick peep show!

LOL!!
I think i would have waited as well, i mean, i would not like to pee, with a bunch of kids staring in at me...unless i was desperate!, then i would go, but, as you say, sounds like they need to remodel the loo's, you want privacy, when going to the loo!:)

Haha privacy win! Hey sometimes these things happen, this one time I was at a public stall and the door opened to a toilet that faced sideways, so i ran in and in a hurry I forgot to lock the door some kid of about 10 walked in took a gander said sorry and left. Awkward much? It was really strange and I know how you feel, maybe not as bad though.

lol moonlitmagikchild,

When I visited China, I experience something 'nice' - Restroom without doors. You had to 'pretend' that no one was watching and do your business like it is nobody's business. Did I go ahead? Of course not. I was holding it like gosh, no word is crazy enough to describe it. One of my friends was smart enough to use the umbrella to shield herself though!:P

I wouldn't have wanted the kids to watch me in the restroom. I would have wished to use the restroom alone. It would have been fine if there were three stalls, from the ground to the ceiling and lockable doors on each one.

I am very keen on traveling. I didn't like it when I went to a restroom in Los Angeles and there were no stalls. The restroom had a row of toilets and no privacy was offered. So I waited until I reached the next restroom.

In Indonesia the toilets were a hole in the ground, water and no toilet paper. Rather that use a tire in the middle of a gas station I went to the bushes hidden from the road, other travelers and local people.

I was in France once and dashed into a public loo without paying my 20 centimes (pre-Euro days). I was standing at the urinal doing my stuff when I became aware of a very prim and slightly irritated lady standing beside me. Initially I thought that maybe I had gone to the Ladies by mistake. Then I realised that I was in the right place and that she had come for her money. Well I couldn't stop as I was in full flow - so I smiled, apologised, finished, zipped up, washed my hands and then gave her the money. She never took her eyes off me once!

hehehe i cannot pee in front of strangers either.. n fact i can't hadly us a public restroom for all the germs.. I am becoming a 'germaphobic' in my old age...lori

I can honestly say I've never been in a public bathroom like that! but if I found myself in that sort of situation I'd definately wanna pee as fast as possible and get the heck out before they did LOL..

I'd be looking for the first bush to go behind.

I know what it's like to be on the road and have to go so badly. I think they may have installed those stalls with such wide gaps to discourage vagrants or IV drug users from using them. Being a "public" washroom, the owners have to be careful about who is using them. They may have had them installed that way so that only people with the most, uhh, urgent needs would use them. Hey, I've gone behind bushes before.

Hi,

There's this new trend in the restrooms nowadays where they won't put a partition wall between the male loos. It gives me a very sick feeling. I simply have to hold it up unless the next person is a bit far from me.

Your incident really seems to be a "sick peep show."

I've never had that happen HOWEVER i admit i hate public washrooms so much i will try and hold it as long as i possibly can rather than using one.