Suspicious magnifying glass placement
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Suspicious that you noticed it
Is there any reasons you guys there over the atlantic prefer those creepy gaps under the stall doors / walls?
We all hate them. Please help.
Indeed.
Sometimes my back gets wet sliding under them.
We don’t prefer them. The people that own the buildings do because they are cheaper.
because they are cheaper
Not to give some rich idiot an idea, but so are no locks, no doors, no walls.
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.
No one prefers them
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Where I'm from doesn't have the gaps, but they could be useful if the door jams.
The wide stance tho' 🫣
You gotta lean back, too. Really assert dominance
Very smooth legs.
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.
Fearless… or extrovert?
Johnny Sack?
Waiting for a John?
My dude been skipping leg day every day.
"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.