@caseywor OH MY GOSH!!! I can’t believe someone actually asked you about taking your backpack to the bathroom!!!!! HOW RUDE!!! I would never do that.
I guess if you feel annoyed with someone who asks, you can always shock them by saying you have porn magazines in your backpack for a daytime release, so you can concentrate all you energy on your work, lol! The receiver of such a statement would surely be so astonished and uncomfortable that they would likely shut right up! It’s nobody’s business!
I’m glad I’m a female and can take my purse to the bathroom without calling attention to it. I do feel bad for dudes in this regard. Women have garbage pins on the wall of every stall (for menstruation products), so it’s easy to dispose of diapers privately inside our own individual stall. Women’s restrooms also usually have huge garbage cans near the door, in part because it’s women who most often go into their restroom to change their baby’s diapers.
I remember the good old days when I didn’t have to take my purse into the office bathroom unless I was changing! I do hate when a stall doesn’t have a purse/coat/backpack hook on the back of the stall door. Holding a purse on your lap while peeing is hard to accomplish - granted, I carry a large purse.
@Benfrank I think wearing a fanny pack at all times at work is a good idea, though they’re not popular at this particular moment. You could also buy a coat with big pockets, then keep a diaper(s) in the pocket(s), and take your coat in the bathroom with you. Might be less unusual than a backpack? Three seasons of the year here in SLC, wearing a coat is common.
Oh oh oh - even better than a coat - how about buying a sport jacket(s) with big pockets (preferably on the inside) and dressing like that at work? That wouldn’t work at every job, particularly jobs that require a uniform.
Then again, if I saw someone at work or wherever go into the bathroom with a backpack what's in it is none of my cotton-pickin' business! If they wanted to tell me, fine. But the way I see it, live and let live! And @Benfrank when you've been at this incontinence business as long as most of us here have, you just develop that "I'm just going about my business" attitude if someone asks. Unless they're a good friend or there's a really valid reason for someone to know, otherwise it's "none of your business" and just go about yours! But guess what, a lot of people have to go into public restrooms all the time to change. It's easy to feel you are the only one, Lord knows, we all did at one time or another. But just be cool about it 