The 1 bathroom house

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Why, in a one bathroom house does everyone seem to run for the bathroom at the same time. You start walking toward the door and all the sudden there are 3 other people pee-pee dancing and passing you up?

Every time you go to get into the shower and just start the water someone is banging on the door even though you asked 20 seconds before you got to the bathroom if anyone had to go?

I have to go potty and there is a line

Because when one 1st grader in a class asks to go to the toilette, at least a quarter of those other children suddenly remember that they ought to check for 'that feeling'.

I think most people keep that habit well into adulthood.

They push their instinctual need to use the toilette aside until a sudden sound or sight such as someone else going to the bathroom reminds them that they have to do that too.

I wonder about that myself. In my case, I sometimes get too involved in something and put off bathroom visits until my husband heads in just when I'm thinking I'd better tear myself away... and he reads in there.

I have also noticed that when I have a baby or toddler at home, they seem to have soiled themselves very often when I have just come out of the bathroom to do the equivalent. Either there's a certain time of the morning when people with regular habits do this, or there's some connection similar to women having their periods at the same time when they live together (so I've heard, never noticed it myself). You make some very odd observations when you have small children... like how they always (or often) poo themselves when they play outside and how mine at least soils herself every time we go to the haircut place... before it's her turn.

Do NTs spend a lot of time thinking about these things, do you suppose?

I'm sure it all depends on how bad they have to go and how long they have to wait to get in . Hard to think about anything else when you really have to go. haha.

What is a pee-pee dance?

In my country the toilet and the shower places are separate rooms in the house, precisely for this reason.

Ugh that's actually one of my fears lol - someone knocking on the door when I'm in the bathroom. I used to hattee going to the bathroom at school for this reason (it was a very small school with a single bathroom for each sex) I have some kind of very strong aversion towards against raising my voice and I just can't yell "SOMEONES IN HERE!!"

This was also an issue when I was staying with my inlaws. Apperently the correct procedure if you're in the shower and someone knocks, is to come to the door and use it to shield yourself and see what they need incase it's urgent.

I cannot stand one bathroom houses!! Whatever house I buy in the future will be at least 1.5!! !

Have some diapers in the house. Problem solved. If that isn't the right solution, piss in a bucket or bed pans.

lol go outside when you have to go if some ones in the bathroom... (and if your a girl, tuff luck )

Some stupid company here, I believe it is pampers, even mixed it up, and called it the potty dance.

It is when you do things like cross your legs, jump up and down, etc... I don't think I ever did it, but many do, even some adults!

LOL thanks for explaining. Actually, all that seems to make the situation worse...

seperate rooms. now that would be great. With the toilet in the same room as the bathtub/shower, there are times when you want to take a shower, and someone else wants to stink up the bathroom right before you go in. eeeeww. I ususally end up postponeing my shower till the smell disipates.

If its in the summer, I just crank open the bathroom window or turn on the vent. It gets rid of the smell, unless my parents have the air conditioner on, and then it aggrivates me since I then can't have the window open.

Though the smell for me isn't really an issue unless its strong. But the thing that gets to me is when someone takes a poo and forgets to flush.

You mention 'one bathroom house' as if it's unusual to have only one bathroom

It is where I come from. It is uncommon in newer towns.