So we can talk about men without them listening.

Agreed, mostly to gossip in private. I would also contend that when "out on the town" you're dressed to impress and it offers more confidence to travel in a pack, no one thinks you're there alone, if someone is rude you can turn to your friend and find backup. I would say, it's to quash insecurities.

because it's a girl thing, and if someone tries to pick a fight you have backup protection and to dicuss other women that you might hate.

I know the answer to this... Imagine a woman going to the bathroom and she is gone for 10 minutes. Everybody knows she went #2. If she has 3 other women with her, nobody knows which bodily function she exercised. It's so that nobody knows what they did. It also turns an un-ladie-like activity into a social event. It actually draws attention away from the fact that they are taking a dump.

it is genetically hardwired into them. A pack response, one guards the other during the moment of weakness.

LOL Even in high school, I never understood this. My friends would say, "come to the bathroom with me", and I'd refuse, because, well, I didn't need to! Seriously. I have no idea why any woman needs to have another woman in the bathroom with her.

I guess for safety reasons? In case you fall in? In case the lady friend stops by unannounced?

-To talk -For company -To gossip about their dates sometimes I think usually it is for the company and in younger single women especially, to compare notes and talk about how they feel the date is going etc. It's just one of those things men have to accept. I quit worrying or trying to figure out what they did in there a long time ago!

Usually, its because they have something they want to chat about, or they are feeling insecure and need someone to go the restroom with them. I'll go as a pair if I need to go but not cause thats what girls are supposed to do. Alot of times, they need help with an issue and the restroom seems like the most apropriate place to do it. "Do you really think this skirt shows off my hips the way I want?" "Was he checking you out or what?! So are you guys going home together, or what's the deal here?" "I hate this guy, lets think of a way to get out of here!". Sorry to blow the cover ladies, but it's no big mystery. We just want to talk about things we don't necessarily want you to hear, (and lots of things you don't WANT to hear!).

I think girls go to the washroom in twos or even groups so that no one is left out. And also so they can share lip gloss and powder.

cuz girls are weird

Probably because they are stupid, one should stay back at all times to make sure no one drops a roofie in their drinks.

Women don't have to go to the bathroom in pairs. No need to continue. :-)

Fear that something crazy might happen in the bathroom. Like some weird guy being in there or something in that sort.

I like to think it's because they're having hot lesbian sex in one of the stalls, but I'm pretty sure that isn't it. I just assume they're talking about one or more of the other people in the party.

I'm going to have to go with the closest answer i can think of and thats that girls are social, and interact with eachother i think much more than guys do, girls usually are in pairs. Guys are more like oh whatever its just to go piss! Men don't want to share a stale and talk about random emotional things haha.

in case they run out of toilet paper of course, some one has to hand it to ya,lol

Because it is one of the tacit rules of being a woman. You go to the bathroom in groups of 2 or more. Discuss the goings-on, and fix the make up, y'know... Girl stuff... I don't particularly understand or go along with it, though. I find it a bit odd. I hate even being in the rest room with anyone else.

I personally always need company because when I was quite young my brother showed me the movie, Species. Since then, I have had a severe phobia of public toilets. It's also a matter of being able to gossip about the people you were sitting with (particularly applicable if meeting the new bf for the first time), and sharing lipgloss, etc, etc :)

I know at a ballroom dance competition a girl on our team once asked for another girl to come to the bathroom and help her with "asset relocation" Actually 90% of the time I assume they do it so they can talk about us behind our backs.

Girls go in pairs because as JKisses pointed out girls are more social and interact more on this level. And.. If guys started going to the toilet in pairs the first assumption would be that they are gay and they are going to have gay sex in the toilet. I understand that while men like to know how they 'rate' size wise in comparison to other men, actually checking each other out in the mens is a no-no...lol...

because it takes them so much longer to finish their buisiness and therefore need someone to keep them company. With us guys we don't want any distractions because it's 30 seconds of pure concentration trying to keep our aim straight.

more fun, and you can still carry on talking.......

So that they can talk about men uninterrupted.

we together to complain about you guys don't go together b/c they are afraid they might catch a glimpse and feel weird

To play with each others boobs.... Don't tell anyone I told you!! *runs away and hides behind balaclava*

To hold each other from falling in the toilet when they squat in that funny position when peeing....LOL

Not sure, but can I come.

Definitely so one or the other can provide covering fire on the German occupied bunkers while the other clears the beach head of barbed wire obstructions. All that to use the bathroom, yeesh!

We'd tell you but we'd have to kill you...

Depends. If your on a date they go so they can talk about the date or just to gossip together!

Because it is a secret sanctuary filled with palm trees and warm breezes and enuchs who rub their feet and feed them peeled grapes. Or, at least that's what I learned from a late-1970s Saturday Night Live skit about this very topic....:-D I wish I could find it on YouTube, etc., but I think it's too old for people to remember.

I dunno, but I always do, I guess it's just a company thing, you feel like less of a billy if you go with a friend, you feel less vunerable and it's a private place to chat.

I don't cause when I really have to go I don;t want someone tagging along and getting to the bathrom before I do!

We are not suppose to tell our secrets.

because they don't trust their girlfried with their boyfriend

Well I guess I usually go in at least a pair at school, but that's just because we're talking and don't want to separate and then continue the conversation. I think that's the main reason.

The Women's Restroom When you have to visit a public bathroom, you usually find a line of women, so you smile politely and take your place. Once it's your turn, you look for feet under the stall doors. Every stall is occupied. Finally, a door opens and you dash in, nearly knocking down the woman leaving the stall. You get in to find the door won't latch. It doesn't matter. The dispenser for the modern "seat covers" (invented by someone's Mom, no doubt) is handy, but empty. You would hang your purse on the door hook, if there were one, but there isn't - so you carefully but quickly drape it around your neck, (Mom would turn o over in her grave if you put it on the FLOOR!), yank down your pants, and assume "The Stance." In this position your aging, toneless thigh muscles begin to shake. You'd love to sit down, but you certainly hadn't taken time to wipe the seat or lay toilet paper on it, so you hold "The Stance." To take your mind off your trembling thighs, you reach for what you discover to be the empty toilet paper dispenser. In your mind, you can hear your mother's voice saying, "Honey, if you had tried to clean the seat, you would have KNOWN there was no toilet paper!" Your thighs shake more. You remember the tiny tissue that you blew your nose on yesterday - the one that's still in your purse. That would have to do. You crumple it in the puffiest way possible. It is still smaller than your thumbnail. Someone pushes open your stall door because the latch doesn't work. The door hits your purse, which is hanging around your neck in front of your chest, and you and your purse topple backward against the tank of the toilet. "Occupied!" you scream, as you reach for the door, dropping your precious, tiny, crumpled tissue in a puddle on the floor, lose your footing, altogether, and slide down directly onto the TOILET SEAT. It is wet of course. You bolt up, knowing all too well that it's too late. Your bare bottom has made contact with every imaginable germ and life form on the uncovered seat because YOU never laid down toilet paper - not that there was any, even if you had taken time to try. You know that your mother would be utterly appalled if she knew, because, you're certain; her bare bottom never touched a public toilet seat because, frankly, dear, "You just don't KNOW what kind of diseases you could get." By this time, the automatic sensor on the back of the toilet is so confused that it flushes, propelling a stream of water like a fire hose that somehow sucks everything down with such force that you grab onto the toilet paper dispenser for fear of being dragged in too. At that point, you give up. You're soaked by the spewing water and the wet toilet seat. You're exhausted. You try to wipe with a gum wrapper you found in your pocket and then slink out inconspicuously to the sinks. You can't figure out how to operate the faucets with the automatic sensors, so you wipe your hands with spit and a dry paper towel and walk past the line of women, still waiting. You are no longer able to smile politely to them. A kind soul at the very end of the line points out a piece of toilet paper trailing from your shoe. (Where was that when you NEEDED it??) You yank the paper from your shoe, plunk it the woman's hand and tell her warmly, "Here, you just might need this." As you exit, you spot your hubby, who has long since entered, used and left the men's restroom. Annoyed, he asks, "What took you so long, and why is your purse hanging around your neck?" This is dedicated to women everywhere who deal with a public restroom (rest??? you've got to be kidding!!). It finally explains to the men what really does take us so long. It also answers their other commonly asked question about "Why women go to the restroom in pairs". It's so the other gal can hold the door, hang onto your purse, and hand you Kleenex under the door!!!!

Because public bathrooms almost never have doorlatches that work, so you take a buddy to hold the door closed for you!

For me, its because im scared. I know its weird. but, i dont like peeing or anything in a public bathroom because i will think about what other people think of me. Like if im peeing too loud or not long enough. I just feel most comfortable if i have someone there with me...

wow i cant believe this question has been asked, that is something my husband asks me all the time, he`d better read all these answers if he wants to know because i always tell him not to be nosey.

probably so they can laugh at men and borrow each others make up.or maybe there is drug involved and they are doing cocaine in there.

Cause for some weird reason we like to talk while we pee.

Yep exactly... to talk!! :P

to run their mouths ..lol

To talk about you.

I do not, but friends always seem to want to come to the loo with you.

To gossip about everybody that didn't go in with them.

the habit started when doors had to be guarded by someone standing outside and eventually in the course of the years a woman enters alone, sees everybody with a company and hence makes sure to take someone she visits next time............. argghhh whatever!!just to talk nonsense as above

safety. A public bathroom is a place where a woman can be very vulnerable to sexual predators, etc and often the restroom is in a secluded place. going in pairs makes it safer.

I don't. I like my privacy.

I have NO IDEA. I am anti this behavior. I do have two girlfriends who insist on me accompaning them to the bathroom and I only go after reading them a bit of a riot act that I am not girly enough to go in a pair. Then, we get in there and she just pees, wahes her hand, and we go back out! Nothing happens! I don't get it!

I have NO IDEA. I am anti this behavior. I do have two girlfriends who insist on me accompaning them to the bathroom and I only go after reading them a bit of a riot act that I am not girly enough to go in a pair. Then, we get in there and she just pees, wahes her hand, and we go back out! Nothing happens! I don't get it!

Public bathrooms are scary places, it isn't unusual to be accosted on the way to one. Having a friend go with you means you have someone to talk with on the way there/back and in between, someone to hold your bag, someone to run into the next toilet to fetch loo roll if the one in your cubicle has ran out (but you didn't notice before you sat down). There are so many advantages.

Pair-bonding

I assume it's because they want to a.)Not get raped b.)Gossip c.)Get away from US...

I hate doing that. All my friends ask me to do it and im not the type to even think about it. I will put up a fight if they ask me. They better have a good reason mainly if they need a girly item and my gym lockers are close to the bathroom thne yes ill go.

Women usually like to chat in general...some reason they do it in the bathroom..even while they pee.

Ive never been to the toilet in a pear. I have went in pairs with other women to the toilet though and it is usually to discuss the person they are with. Likes and dislikes.

To gossip..usually about the one left at the table.

they put toilets in pears? what will they think of next.

I don't think pears go to the restroom. Women may go in pairs so they can talk, especially about whomever is left at the table. :-)

I don't crap in fruits.

I think a pumpkin would be more comfortable.

squash

We go in pears to discuss wheather we're getting a cherry of a deal or just the pits.

apple suits just aren't flatering to the female physic, hence being a pear shape or and apple shape.

Pears?? Or pairs? Gossip.

Spell check, please!

The punchline is: Because the apples were full!. This is an old joke from School:-)

I'm a woman and I always go to the bathroom by myself. Are you offering to hold my hand the next time? lol

To talk about you.

To talk of of earshot of the other people they are with, not neccesarily about them (often it is though) but about other matters that you only talk about with your girlfriends or things going on that you dont feel comfortable talking about in a crowd.

Well, we go to the bathroom to talk. Not just about guys but we think it is a polite thing to do to tell another girl or girl friend we are going so if she ask or I need a tampon or pad or start me period or she does we can supply each other with supplys, make up we go to touch up and check our make up and lip gloss. Some people smoke sometimes women go together to have time alone and let the boys talk and do there thing and chat about sports etc. sometimes we talk about family work going out next time we can get out or have a get together or a suprise party or holidays. That is why.

I think it is animal instincts. If you look at wildlife, you allways see the males of a species wondering around alone or in small groups (2 or 3) whereas the females allways group together with alot higher numbers!!! A brilliant example of this is Lions, the male Lions normally have a pride consisting of them and about 7 or 8 females. The lion will just lie in the shade and defend the females from other lions wheras the lionesses group together to kill for food. Just an idea and an interesting (imo) comparison :)

haha wouldnt you like to know lol. well we do chat and redo our makeup and stuff like that.

Yes they do, and if it's a double-date when they come out it has pretty much been determined who is or is not getting laid that night. There is almost nothing that can change this "first-multiple-chic-piss" determination about who might get some puddin that night, except alcohol. Cheers.

When two women live together, their periods often synchronise. Maybe this is a similar effect.

Interesting question.... Could it be to talk? When men are around they often control the conversation...

I quite often dont want to walk there on my own or yah we do sit and blether (even with people we dont know) plus some women are vicious and will start an argument with you so we do need back up lol!

As an older woman now I'm strictly going to the bathroom but when I was younger and dating I would go so I could compare notes with my friend about the dates we were on making comments etc.

yes we do, if we are together, if not its to use the bathroom.

So they can talk about whoever didn't come along with them.

To talk in private where no one but girls can hear us or we just all gotta go at the same time so we go together

I gave a really good answer here about this: http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/155418

Because it is impossible have pee races alone!

i have answer the same question a month ago.

With me I don't care who I go to the toilet with, but usually someone will say "I'm going to the toilet" and it will remind me that I need it too, so I'll go with them... I don't mean to go with other people, and don# care if i'm alone, but they remind me... It's only natural.. someone says they need it and everyone who hears them thinks if they need it too... and sometimes a few women do so it ends up as a group marching off to the porcelain x

To talk about the men they are with.

It USED to be for protection...you know the "there's safety in numbers" theory. Public restrooms are usually not in the middle of the room..they're usually down a hall, around a corner, through the dark corridor, whatever; and having someone else with you was comforting. Years and years ago it was because a woman was UNABLE to go alone...she needed help holding up the skirts and such. Not a pretty image there, huh? Anyway... over the years it's just "stuck" and most of us tend to go with someone so we aren't alone. I don't ask my female friends to accompany me unless I want to speak with them privately or the restroom is OUTSIDE! Seriously, I've actually run into places where the restrooms were only accessable from the outside of the building! Bizarre!!

Lots of times, the stalls won't stay closed, and you like to have a friend stand guard. And of course, you can chat about the men you're with!

It's kindof the girl code. When you go to the bathroom you ask if they need to. Normally they do to keep company, talk about the men they are with, powder their noses, make escape plans, ect.

I rarely did that I like to go solo.

Well, for talking, holding each other's purses/ bags, saying something that couldn't have been said outside.

Public Excuse: We feel much more secure that way. People get attacked in the toilets!!! Real Honest Reason: We're gossiping about YOU. lol.

I don't know. It's just the way it is

I'm a woman and I never did. I like to have privacy in the bathroom, but I think it's because most women are gregarious and like to socialize and chat while in there.

We like to gossip while we pee ^.^ somehow it makes going to the bathroom in public much more fun and relaxing.

Hmmmm. I don't know. With me, it's to talk about people... Or to fix my hair without looking like an idiot. Usually there's at least five of us. Yeah.

I have never done this, so I don't have a clue. Probably to gossip. Or maybe they all have to pee at the exact same time?