Oh yeah, those wonderful times when I regularily visited a friend to use his equipement is his bathroom (no space for a special dedicatd darkroom, so the stuff had to be prepared and built for each developing-session anew).
I never felt save enough to develop the film to get the negatives on my own, so I had that done.
But then to work on the prints, that was really magic: When after the lightning you put that seemingly white piece of paper into the chemicals and experience the slow appearance of a real picture on it out of nothing, that was nearly erotic.