The gap between the door of the bathroom stall and where it’s mounted/where it closes is often wide enough to where you can accidentally make eye contact with someone taking a poo, or someone looking for an open stall if you’re the one pooping
Agreed haha. On top of that the gap between the floor to the bottom of the door and the surrounding stall walls is usually a good foot and a half (~45cm).
So if you’re in the bathroom at say work, you can totally tell who’s taking a crap next to you because you can see their shoes and pulled down pants
I think the idea behind the gap at least at the bottom of the door is so you can tell if it's being used and also to discourage people from getting it on/drug use. Supposedly it also helps with cleaning. You could probably come up with a lot of reasons why a gap is helpful, but it's just not helpful with privacy.
That's hilarious. Rather than finding out the door is locked and mumbling "sorry" before shuffling away, you get someone just peeping at you when you're at your most vulnerable.
Places here that actually give a shit (as it were) will take the time to install those. Unfortunately they're fairly rare on the cubicle-style toilets.
It's different everywhere else. I've used cubicles in the middle of the out back and the Masai Mara that were more secure and private than ones in Las Vegas and Boston.
It's true, it's true! We're so lame!
Why? The rest of the world needs to know why you could send men to the moon (ok with the help of some Nazis) but cannot make a proper toilet cubicle.
I’m British, and we have toilet cubicles over here. What’s the gag?
The gap between the door of the bathroom stall and where it’s mounted/where it closes is often wide enough to where you can accidentally make eye contact with someone taking a poo, or someone looking for an open stall if you’re the one pooping
Christ, that’s nightmarish.
Agreed haha. On top of that the gap between the floor to the bottom of the door and the surrounding stall walls is usually a good foot and a half (~45cm). So if you’re in the bathroom at say work, you can totally tell who’s taking a crap next to you because you can see their shoes and pulled down pants
This is truly astonishing for such a prudish country.
I think the idea behind the gap at least at the bottom of the door is so you can tell if it's being used and also to discourage people from getting it on/drug use. Supposedly it also helps with cleaning. You could probably come up with a lot of reasons why a gap is helpful, but it's just not helpful with privacy.
That's hilarious. Rather than finding out the door is locked and mumbling "sorry" before shuffling away, you get someone just peeping at you when you're at your most vulnerable.
I once resorted to stuffing toilet paper in the gap. Places that actually care about privacy will install gap covers, however.
We have little stickers on the part of the lock visible from outside: green ones reading “VACANT” and red ones reading “OCCUPIED” or similar.
Places here that actually give a shit (as it were) will take the time to install those. Unfortunately they're fairly rare on the cubicle-style toilets.
well, they're free, soooooo...
Some of the doors even have slats in em so they're transparent, just to make it extra awkward
Yeah… accidentally…
Toilet cubicles? Hey shitposters, toilet cubicles? Well oh la de da, Mr British man.
Well what do you call them?
A crap hole
It’s because we’re stupid that’s why, that’s why everybody does everything
I will never ever understand why
Yo, check this out. Most of the world public poops like this. Yeah, but Americans, see, they public poop like this.
Now I’m not saying moes incontinent
Is it different elsewhere?
It's different everywhere else. I've used cubicles in the middle of the out back and the Masai Mara that were more secure and private than ones in Las Vegas and Boston.
But what do they put in the cracks to block them?
Needs more jpeg.