Often nature comes calling at the most inopportune times, and when you've got to go - you've got to go. There's nothing worse that not having a toilet around when you're desperate in public - so we ask Brummies where they sneak off to when they're in and around the city centre.
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00:00 I can't lie, I just kind of go anywhere, not anywhere, literally anywhere.
00:04 But like, yeah, I'll go into a restaurant. I don't really have shame in going into a restaurant and pretending.
00:10 If they're like, you need to pay, I'll be like, I'll just go somewhere else, I'm not getting any, I need to go to the toilet.
00:14 Yeah, I don't, in terms of public toilets, are there any? Other than in the Bullring or the train station in Grand Central?
00:23 There's none like around here, for example, I don't know any. You know, I worked in the city centre, so that was quite good.
00:33 I would just go to work or something, but other than that, I don't know, unless you're paying.
00:38 Yeah, exactly, just go, I don't know, yeah, I'd just go to a proper shop each time.
00:42 Yeah, but also in the coach station, you have to pay to actually get in there, which is just crazy.
00:51 But yeah, in terms of actual public toilets, I have absolutely no idea where any are, to be honest.
00:59 No.
01:00 And yeah, again, I lived here for three years, so I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, they need more.
01:08 Yeah, I think it's better public toilets.
01:12 Yeah, and keep them clean. I've seen some horrific ones, so bad. Gosh, I lied.
01:18 Toilet rollers.
01:20 Yeah.
01:21 There aren't enough places, there's definitely not enough public toilets in Birmingham, not in the city centre either way,
01:26 so probably cheeky back down also at the train station.
01:30 Gosh, I've never been asked that question before. But yeah, I don't think there's such thing as public toilets anymore.
01:38 And so you always, you know, you would go to Costa or a Starbucks or somewhere, you know,
01:47 but buy yourself a quick coffee and then go there, that's all that.
01:53 But yeah, no free toilets anymore, I don't think.
01:57 I think I tend to go in the train station. I think find them the cleanest, so that's New Street.
02:05 So yeah, it's only time when I need to go there, or unless I'm in work, I'll go in the office.
02:10 But I never feel unsafe, no.
02:13 So again, I'd say probably personally, I think there possibly could be a few more.
02:17 I'm probably a bit of a McDonald's man myself when it comes to it, because it's generally kind of reliable and easy to get to.
02:22 But yeah, there definitely have been times where I'm not really sure where the nearest facilities would be.
02:27 It would be great. I appreciate there's a cost to that, obviously, and that's got to be balanced out.
02:31 But I think that there could be a few more facilities.
02:36 I normally just go to a restaurant or a shop and ask to use their toilet.
02:46 I normally go to just Palms and McDonald's, and then I go to my oldest lunch there, and eat my tea.
02:55 There's never enough public toilet services at city centres, and there ought to be more.
02:59 So I'd end up going to a train station or McDonald's, yeah, and somewhere like that.