restroom etiquette question

[imported_Strang]

Thankfully the restroom I use here at work has only one urinal and one extra-huge stall, so I have the benefits of not feeling guilty for using the spacious handicapped stall and not having a need for a buffer.

On the other hand, our facilities department appears to buy used sandpaper from Home Depot for tissue paper, but that's another story.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: kranky
Since it's at work, you have a good idea of what the odds of a handicapped person needing that stall are. Is it likely?

This is my thinking. I use the non-handicap stalls first but if that's my only choice and I gotta go ...

I used a handycapped stall today at Fred Meyer. It was the farthest from the urinals.

I did have the thought, "What if..."... That would've sucked!

Hey I used that same bathroom, many months ago though.

SE 82nd & Johnson Creek, right?

Your poop co-mingled

lol.. Ya..

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: lancestorm

Originally posted by: FuZoR
i took a handicapped stall once(other stalls were takin) needed to go pretty bad at disney world...

and i noticed a wheel chair come below the door.. i was like DOH!!!!
i felt bad and embrassed as i walked out of that stall lol

You should have feigned gimping!!

Or just said you lost your wheelchair.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Mandos

Originally posted by: kranky
Since it's at work, you have a good idea of what the odds of a handicapped person needing that stall are. Is it likely?

Theres no problem taking the 3rd stall, unlessyou know there is a high chance of a handicapped person coming. And no reasont o get embarrased either. Its accomodated for a handicapped person, doesnt mean someone who isn't handicapped can't use it.

Yeah, just like handicap parking spaces.

 

[Kelemvor]

I go straight for the 3rd stall even if the whole bathroom is empty. Have never seen a handicapped person in our building that would use it anyway.

 

[TitanDiddly]

3rd, unless you're at the special olympics.

 

[brtspears2]

3rd stall. The extra room feels better, and it has those bars you can grab on to just in case you need to anchor yourself while you try to pass a log.

 

[Crucial]

What is with you people and being scared to pee/crap with someone else in the room? Are you all that self concious about your penis size?

 

[silverpig]

Sh1tter stalls: no buffer needed.
Urinals: 1 urinal buffer zone required unless half of them are in use, in which case it becomes more complicated.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: csaddict
What is with you people and being scared to pee/crap with someone else in the room? Are you all that self concious about your penis size?

I have a shy bladder, and my feces smell horrible.

 

[cronos]

Originally posted by: brtspears2
3rd stall. The extra room feels better, and it has those bars you can grab on to just in case you need to anchor yourself while you try to pass a log.

hahaha....

 

[Ranger X]

Originally posted by: csaddict
What is with you people and being scared to pee/crap with someone else in the room? Are you all that self concious about your penis size?

Why don't you stand 2 feet away from the urinal and pee then? I don't know about you but I don't like other guys looking at me while I'm going to the restroom.

As for #2, a buffer is preferrable. There were times when at work (we have like 6 stalls) where I would use one with no one around and someone comes in and uses the stall RIGHT NEXT to me.

 

[ucdbiendog]

Originally posted by: syee
I thought it was OK to take stalls next to each other....urinals on the other hand need a 1 space buffer zone

ditto

 

[skychief]

I always try and have a buffer zone so the stall would have been abused. It is quite funny how many people are embarrased or amused over something that everyone must do. For intance, I was traveling with some friends one time through Pennsylvania and we stopped at a rest stop. There was about forty guys in there so we had to use stalls as no urinals were available. My one friend let one rip and it only took about ten seconds before every man in that restroom was laughing. We all walked out to our wives wanting to know wht was so funny. For some reason they wern't quite as amused.

 

[Crucial]

Just to amuse myself I used the handicap shitter to take a piss at the mall today.

 

[brigden]

Everything's kosher as long as there's a courtesy flush involved.

 

[Amorphus]

You sissy. The urinal buffer is for privacy. There is a wall between shitter stalls for that. Likewise, urinals with sufficient dividers do not need a buffer either.

The way my urinal system is:

Noone else there: take urinal farthest away from door (not the short one).
1 other person there: Take farthest one away from them. If they're in the middle and the difference between the two distances is less than two or three, take the one farthest from the door.
Ever other urinal taken: The bathroom has sinks.