Quote from: Stone Magnum on July 15, 2017, 09:53:41 PM
Gas station bathrooms are the worst for either gender. The other day, I was taking a drive up to the north shore for a day trip and stopped at a gas station to piss. Some guy had a blowout in his briefs and had just stripped them off and laid them on the floor. Exceeelleeennntttt.
That was the grossest thing I've seen so far, but I'll be honest, I've seen way grosser **** in women's bathrooms. In fact, the majority of men's bathrooms that I've been in have been way cleaner than anything I saw/smelled before. Also, you never get hit in the face with that classic 'hot period blood mixed with weird flowers' smell.

Anyway, what I'm ultimately saying is the gas station isn't a good litmus test. Best to just put that one of your head.

Yeah! Sometimes the women's aren't super bad though. That's why I prefer to stop at truck stops, as they're usually sooooooo clean, like they even SMELL clean.
The worst I ever saw in women's restroom was poop smears on the walls...IN A MCDONALDS!!!! After much questioning of how, I couldn't bring myself to go and just washed my hands and left....When in doubt, right?

The briefs though....WHY....UGGGH. At least throw them in the trash???

My biggest thing is like.....I understand how men get piss everywhere, but women getting it everywhere never ceases to amaze me. Public restrooms in general suck....

  Having just spent a month making a trip across country as myself, a very insecure fairly new trans-woman. As you can imagine bathrooms were a real difficulty for me. I made the whole trip traveling in girl mode and using the men's room was not an option. That was something I could not do. But using the ladies room was also a big ordeal for me and it still is. Single use bathrooms would have be easy but I only saw a couple of those during the whole month. Most were gas station/truck stops and highway rest stops, and some were department stores. Sometimes they were little used country roads. If the bathrooms were busy I avoided them. Many time I held it until late at night and cased the joints to see there was likely no one else in them before getting out of my truck and sneaking in. There were times and places where there were women in them  and I just had to go so I bit the bullet and went in, did my business and made a hasty retreat but those were few and far between occurrences.
  I have yet to be able to say I belong in the ladies room and walk right in as if it's normal. For me ladies rooms are still forbidden territory but going into the men's room as Laurie would be worse. I'm still very much a work in progress.

  Hugs,
   Laurie

Hi Laurie, my road trip was shorter (just 3 days) but I made a point to take a leak at least in each state along the road (just to see if I get any bad treatment in southern states). For my safety, I never stopped in unattended rest areas, it was mostly bigger gas stations. Sometimes I had to wait in line. Once, in front of me were several teenage girls. I was never asked to leave by any lady and I am very thankful to all of them for it.


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Quote from: elkie-t on July 16, 2017, 10:12:18 PM
Hi Laurie, my road trip was shorter (just 3 days) but I made a point to take a leak at least in each state along the road (just to see if I get any bad treatment in southern states). For my safety, I never stopped in unattended rest areas, it was mostly bigger gas stations. Sometimes I had to wait in line. Once, in front of me were several teenage girls. I was never asked to leave by any lady and I am very thankful to all of them for it.


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  You my friend are braver than I was.  More power to you.

Hugs,
   Laurie

There are so many things in this thread to consider.  But it comes down to attitude.  Walk in like you own the place, like you belong, do your business, wash your hands (with soap!) and no one will think anything is amiss.

I do agree that it is way easier with strangers than people I know in there.  For example at work.  It gets easier.

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I never experienced very much of it at all. Initially there was a small amount of nervousness and back then i was still presenting as fairly androgynous. But yeah, i was a girl on a mission and it was my right to be in there, nobody was going to take that right from me.