The Willow Walk? What a stonking boozer. I just try to spend as little time in the hell hole that is the general vicinity of Victora
All the piss quoters, he is obviously talking about taking a plop, much harder to achieve surreptitiously.
Train Station Toilets. That's a long way to go from Victoria when you're touching cloth... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Wait, so you're part of the reason work toilets smell like someone's summoned the Golgothan? Seriously, I have to wear a full yellow hazmat suit before getting within 50 feet of the concrete crap bunker. Even then you can only enter after chucking in a lit match, ducking away from the shock wave as the seeping vapour detonates. I don't even use work's Thunderdome myself; just venture inside from time to time to retrieve fallen comrades before the rats get them. Although the odour is often worse than the rodents as they have a hard time eating people around their own tiny gas masks.
on all the turnstile toilets you can just pull the turnstile back a little bit, enough to get a leg in and then walk through. I've not encountered yet in a station a turnstile that doesn't have enough give in the mechanism for you to slip through without putting money in. Though - they get angry at you if they see you do it, so just slip through while loads of other people are and paying. It really does my head in too - and I saw someone do this trick when I was a teenager and I've not paid for the toilet at the station since!
I can relate to this. There are some serious animals where I work. Some of the things I've seen... I was in there the other day dealing with a minor emergency and I swear an exorcism was taking place in the cubicle next door.
I had to go through London to get to Hove recently and was dying for a pee by the time I got to Victoria. I was actually extremely glad for the pay toilets - I was almost blinded by how shiny and clean everything was. I was expecting to have to do the old "hitch your trousers right up off the floor yet not so high that you can't get the old fella through the fly" routine. It's a far cry from Cardiff train station bogs - "bog" being an apt description sometimes - let me tell you. I can imagine it's pretty galling to pay a fortune for a season ticket and still have to pay to poo, but I was at least glad of the cleanliness. I made a little spreadsheet to calculate that. It even does net and... ahem... gross calculations (assuming you're a basic rate tax payer, and not filthy rich).
Most importantly, Did you enjoy Hove? Isn't it a wonderful place. When I moved house last year, one of my only requirements was that I didn't move to Hove I live on the hove border, but on the Brighton side
Another Victoria commuter here. Come in from Bromley south. However I have recently swapped to going in via bike 4 days a week. I generally just jump the barrier... I would rather use a paid loo (and not pay) than use a general one.
