Nice apartment! I see you even hot parking space. And how’s the rent?
Just keep the volume up and we’re cool
How big are the stalls in the US? That looks absolutely massive compared to any I’ve seen here.
Stalls of this size are meant for wheelchair users to be able to maneuver their chairs and get on and off of them.
If there are multiple stalls usually only one of them will be this size. If there is only one then it will be like this.
Not to brag but I used to work in an office that had TWO of these bad boys.
Makes sense. I’ve only seen accessibility toilets be dedicated rooms, and without a stall since they usually aren’t big enough anyway.
Its probably just a single-person restroom.
There’s been a trend to put those walls around the toilet in those restrooms, despite that you’d be the only one in there.
Fearless… or extrovert?
Seems like a good day to make bathroom friends
Or faulty latch, and door opened while seated…
My dude been skipping leg day every day.
Are those not women’s legs?
Sure looks like jeans and black Hanes boxer briefs. Balance of probability to me suggested dude, but obviously I have no inside knowledge.
Um, my legs look like this
And how rigorous are you about leg day?
Suspicious magnifying glass placement
Suspicious that you noticed it
People are simply primed to look for the trouser cat in these sorta pictures.
Four jobs ago, I worked at a location that had generally inadequate bathroom stalls. One of them entirely lacked the lock on the stall throughout my entire tenure there, meaning that sometimes taking this (metaphorical) position wasn’t optional. Everyone avoided that stall when possible, but there weren’t always other choices.
Fortunately it was a smaller stall, unlike the one pictured, so taller people could brace the door manually, but not everyone had the endurance or reach for that. In fact I once, in a moment of desperation, was convinced no one was in there and burst into it to the mutual surprise of the unexpected occupant and myself. (Totally my fault.)
Leaning into the stall to close the door for their subsequent privacy was one of the more awkward experiences of my life.
You should have stood there, staring them in the eyes. Waiting.
In this case, I was the intruder. Had I been the one who was interrupted, I might have considered that strategy.
As the intruder, that’s what you should have done. Waited your turn
After my last few posts I’m in a sentimental mood. I’m gonna tell a barely related story.
Apparently, when my mother was a kid some seventy to eighty years ago, her sisters had a stalker. As a result, their parents switched the rooms of their daughters. (Probably not the approach I would take, but since I didn’t exist at this point I wasn’t consulted.) My mom got a new room but was understandably worried about the stalker. She talked to her adopted sister - whom she liked much better than her biological ones - about her fears, saying “what if I wake up and he’s at the window, staring at me? What would you do?”
The sister in question said “I’d stare right back at him!”
So, for the third time in my lemmy career, one time very recent: thanks for reminding me of my mom. Most recently I said thanks for doing so in an unconventional manner, but at this point I’m inclined to say thank you for reminding me she was unconventional.
Is there any reasons you guys there over the atlantic prefer those creepy gaps under the stall doors / walls?
No, none of us do. Well, probably a small amount of us do, but they would be the exception that proves the rule.
Users of bathrooms don’t prefer them. Bathroom owners do. Privacy would allow people to feel comfortable, which is the last thing the bathroom owners want.
One of our airports had a large mixed-gender bathroom with fully-private stalls and it was the best public bathroom I’ve ever used, I assume to appeal to the international crowd.
Amazingly, McDonald’s has pretty consistently provided the best public restroom experience for me. They’re almost always clean and usually provide either a private room or at least a fully protected stall. Wal-Mart would be second best (in terms of consistent acceptability across locations). Though Wal-Mart toilet paper often has little embedded specks that make me uncomfortable (observed before use, not after).
Couple months ago I found myself needing to stop at a McDonald’s in probably one of the worst neighborhoods you can find outside of the inner city. Nature was calling and it seemed like my best option.
It was for paying customers only, fair enough, I made a token purchase of a McChicken and some fries, and got an employee to unlock the door for me.
I was greeted with that eerie blue light that bathrooms in places like this use to deter drug use because it makes it harder to find a vein.
It gave off an all-around really unsettling vibe, but I will admit that, at least as far as I could tell given the lighting, it seemed to be immaculately clean.
As unsettling as that can be, I certainly prefer it to what I’ve seen at some rest stops - mostly in Pennsylvania, but I’m not well traveled - where, to discourage drug use, they have half (at best) stall doors which (by design) provide no privacy at all.
I once was in a McDonald’s washroom in the very dirty city of Regina while traveling and it was life changing. While in the washroom this person comes storming in, drops trow and pushes their ass up to the stall wall (not the door but next to it) and just starts ass blasting. Very much liquid human waste is now spraying everywhere (due I assume to the pressure seal they have made with their ass on the wall). I was lucky and was washing my hands near the door and was able to exit without incident, but I do remember that there was another person in the very stall getting a colon pressure wash. I went to the counter and told the staff about it (hoping in vain they might be able to save the person trapped with nothing but that very open gap stall as their defense) and to my shock they did not seem at all surprised but just said, “oh them again”. When I somewhat shaken ask what they mean by “them” they explain that its not just one ass blaster but a couple that both regularly run into the “wrong” bathroom at the same time (the gender of the ass blaster did not even occur to me, let alone rank high on my list of issues) and just, as they put it “make a bad mess” of the washroom. At this point I asked about what can be done about the person trapped in shit land, and the staff just looked at me like I grew a second head. They did not see the issue at hand, they just went “well that is where shit happens” and they can always clean off.
Now by this point the ass blasters have finished and left (no one seemed to even look at ether of them) and my food was ready (I ordered then went to the washroom). The staff member grabs my food and tells me not to worry too much about the event as it “only happens a few times a month”. I get my food and leave passing by another staff member white in the face pushing a cleaning bucket towards the rooms “where shit happened”. As I drive away eating my food I have the thought, I really should not be eating this, and I never saw the person in the stall leave.
I … Don’t know that I would have been eating that food, so agreed with you there.
Hopefully the person to whom shit happened is okay!
It was years ago at this point, I hope they made it out. Wonder if it happened to anyone more then once.
If that happened to me in that room, I might never go to the bathroom again; if I did, it would certainly not be in that room.
We all hate them. Please help.
Indeed.
Sometimes my back gets wet sliding under them.what
We don’t prefer them. The people that own the buildings do because they are cheaper.
I think maybe it also makes it easier for the cleaners/security to see if there’s someone hiding in the stall at closing time.
because they are cheaper
Not to give some rich idiot an idea, but so are no locks, no doors, no walls.
How do i delete someone elses’ post
I’ve seen one interpretation of our fire code result in each enclosed stall requiring their own flashing light and siren. So the expense to build really does add up. Every contractor knows how to do it the cheap way, anything else they charge a much higher rate to make it worth the trouble. Maybe some shit related to sex or drug use in bathrooms as well, I’d imagine the more secure it feels the more likely someone might see that as a safe thing to try, not saying that’s a real thing but shit gets talked about on the news enough for it to be something the decision maker has in their head to be influenced one way.
No one prefers them
The gaps on the bottom and the top serve the important purpose of ventilation. It’s a really effective design allowing vertical airflow. So yes, I do prefer air gaps over stinky boxes, and I have personally never seen a creep sticking their head under the gap.
I didn’t realize how much of a difference it made till I got my new job where the restrooms don’t have any gaps. Never felt more secure in a public restroom.
Where I’m from doesn’t have the gaps, but they could be useful if the door jams.
Very smooth legs.
Waiting for a John?
Make sure you’re friendly and provide a warm greeting to anyone who enters after you
The wide stance tho’ 🫣
You gotta lean back, too. Really assert dominance
Who does number two work for?!
Smooth legs.
Johnny Sack?
“I don’t care Anymore”
Takes a bizarre, tantamount to assault picture, posts it for validation
I’m assuming it was taken with sufficient care that no one else would walk in for the purpose of this joke. Maybe someone was working late and they were the only one left at the office, or something similar.
I’m going to assume this is a solo bathroom with a lock on the actual bathroom door.
Doesn’t make it any less bizarre
Bizarre? Sure. But there’s nothing wrong with bizarre. You didn’t stop at calling it bizarre, though.
In any case, it was meant to look like they didn’t care if some random strangers saw their junk. I actually don’t see the humor there. Bizarre isn’t always bad, but here I think it is bizarre in a bad way. Not really the biggest deal though, just a desperate and gross Internet post imo
It could also be broken. A lot of times the door just won’t actually stay shut and sometimes you just have to let the door win.
