Toilet Homour

I am trying to broach this subject without getting too scatological but I want to talk about toilets here in the USA. Let’s start with public toilets. The urinals I am not going to get involved with as they are pretty standard. What really bothers me is the cubicles. For a start the doors don’t reach the floor. I know that in the UK not all of them reach the floor, but here they are about 18 inches from the ground. The tops of the doors stand 5ft 10 inches from the floor, so there is actually only 4ft 2 inches of door. There is also the same gap around the side of the cubicle so you can quite easily see your neighbours feet. When you walk into the men’s room (and the women’s I guess but I haven’t been allowed in there yet) you can see if the cubicles are occupied or not, from the door, which is one of the reasons it is done that way I suppose. But if you work in a building that needs you to have a security pass, which mine does, then most men wear their security tags on their belts, and if they go to the bathroom you can actually see who is doing what in which cubicle because you can see their badge.

I am not a tall man, but I am not short either. When I stand up in the cubicle I can see over the top of the door and also the side partition to the next cubicle. This is wrong, it should not be allowed in a developed nation. Why can’t they provide that bit of dignity and make the frames of the cubicles just that little bit bigger. And whilst they are at it they could also close the gap between the door and the frame. Oh yes, I forgot to mention that. The doors are made in such a way that there is a 1 inch gap between the door and the frame. You can look out and you can look in. For gods sake why? Why is that needed? It is just off putting. The least said about the toilet paper the better.