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    1 year ago

    In the future American toilet stalls do not have doors, because we need to make sure the wrong people aren’t using the bathroom!

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    1 year ago

    I had a kid look under a stall door like this when I was also a kid… I didn’t use a public toilet for decades after that. Then, I finally decided to get over it and had to shit really bad and had to stop at a rest stop. It had half height stalls (which I had never seen before and was awful) and some creep walked down the row looking over the doors at everyone’s business.

    I’m in favor of making all public toilets single occupancy. I don’t care if it doesn’t scale. I’m sick of people watching me poop.

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      1 year ago

      Bathrooms in other countries actually don’t have this issue and I don’t know why people in the US have accepted this norm of terrible stalls that don’t give real privacy. There are stalls in other countries that aren’t even particularly nice that still have much more coverage so someone couldn’t look over/under or through the holes in the door. Demand better bathrooms, America.

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        1 year ago

        One of the best things about traveling to other countries is the bathrooms. I don’t accept the our current stalls as the norm, but I don’t know who to demand the change from. If it’s the government, they can’t even get big things done, so I don’t see how they’d make any progress on this. If it’s changing the culture, that’s a big jobs, and it’s asking companies to spend more money on something that won’t ultimately make them any money.