Ok, very odd question, but it is something I really want to know.

Until I was 14, I grew up in houses where the toilet was in the bathroom. So all entirely normal to me, but as a result I never got taught the etiquette of using a separate toilet in someone else's house.
So here are my really strange questions:
  • Can you still use the toilet when someone else is in the bathroom?
  • Can you use the toilet if someone is in the shower?
  • If someone is in the bathroom, where do you wash your hands?
  • If the toilet is off the laundry, are you meant to wash your hands in the laundry, or find your way to the bathroom?
  • If there bathroom and toilet are on the opposite side of the house to each other and the kitchen is closer, is it ever OK to wash hands in the kitchen?


I do wonder as I have been in homes and absolutely busted as someone was in the bathroom. One time I got told off by my then BF's mother as I could not wait so went to the toilet and flushed (my BF at the time was in the shower for over 45 minutes).

I am also intrigued as to whether the "rules" are consistent