I will always choose the handicap stall because I like the space between myself and the next stall. It seems like the US bathroom system encourages games of battle shits and I’m not willing to play. I’ve only had one instance where I walked out and a person who actually needed it was waiting. I felt terrible, but it was only once out of hundreds. Does anyone else do this?
I use whatever stall is open and clean.
My peeing experience is not tangibly improved by more leg room, there’s plenty in regular stalls.
I usually go for the non-accessible one first, but if that one is occupied or dirty or something I readily use the handicap accessible one.
if the other ones are nasty dirty. sure. or if it’s the only one available.
but given a choice of equally-suitable poop receptacles, i’d choose the ‘regular’ one–especially if it sits lower than ada height
I do, but I’m handicapped.
ETA: I don’t really care if a non-handicapped person uses it.
This may be unpopular, but the stalls are handicap accessible, not reserved.
I do try to be considerate. I keep time short and at work, where I am aware of where people who would have a greater need than I are located, then I go to the restroom they’re least likely to use.
every time first
I only use the handicap stall if all the others are already occupied and I am literally about to shit myself. Otherwise I’ll just wait for a normal stall. I don’t wanna be the reason someone with a wheelchair couldn’t get a stall in time and shat themselves.
I use it often, and have never walked out to someone waiting for it. If I did, I wouldn’t feel bad, because I take like 1 minute to poop.
I take like 1 minute to poop
What sort of wizardry is this?
Well, yeah, but I’m in a wheelchair sooo…
Of course. Plenty of bathrooms are only disability accessible by default these days and I won’t go shit in the garden because I couldn’t find one that wasn’t.
Nah, I just shit on the floor 😎
(why are there weirdos with uniforms surrounding me?)
It’s a morality choice for me. People who need a handicapped spot should not be inconvenienced by me ever. I don’t care how far out I have to walk or how quick I plan to stop, I will never take up those spaces. At work I drive a truck with EX plates and I don’t even park that in the handicapped stalls. There is no justification.
He’s talking about basically bathroom stalls, not parking spots. No one should use the parking spots if they didn’t need them and there are even fines for doing so. Bathroom stalls are a little more ambiguous.
Ooooooooh I’m an idiot. Also the stall closest to the entrance is usually cleanest because fewer people use it.
At work, yes. They made room for the handicap stall by narrowing the other stall to the point where my shoulders brush the walls. Too f’ing awkward.
Oh God you just reminded me of a funny story. I had a boss that was probably 600lbs+. He was huge. The bathroom was a single occupant situation, and the toilet was positioned what I would consider a normal distance from the wall next to it. Typical distance to allow reach to the to dispenser.
This monster of a human had literally crushed a crater into the drywall from sitting on the toilet and being pushed up against wall. Every time I used the bathroom and saw it I laughed a little. I think I was just amazed this person could actually function.
