# FUCK those "studio"-sized restroom stalls (Warning: TMI!) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 28, 2005, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-those-studio-sized-restroom-stalls-warning-tmi/296637 "2005-03-28T18:30:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-those-studio-sized-restroom-stalls-warning-tmi/296637/21 "2005-03-30T17:31:59Z")
MasterSparky - you made my day. ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-those-studio-sized-restroom-stalls-warning-tmi/296637/22 "2005-03-30T18:51:07Z")
What gets me is when they mount the toilet paper dispenser so low and back that it jams into my thigh and it is difficult to use! If it were just a bit higher and closer to the front, it would be easier to use and not jam into me. In a library I used to go to, the stall doors opened out. They had to because the stall were so short I could not close the door without hitting my knees. I was 5’ tall! Who designs rooms like that? ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-those-studio-sized-restroom-stalls-warning-tmi/296637/23 "2005-03-31T00:59:12Z")
Who designs stalls like that? Men! _Regular_ men! Grrrrr… ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-those-studio-sized-restroom-stalls-warning-tmi/296637/24 "2005-03-31T02:54:59Z")
My father served in the Korean Police Action (AKA war) and had some very bad experiences with using whatever paper was at hand to cope with the lack of toilet paper. Ever since then, he has insisted upon having an ample supply of good quality toilet paper in his house. He didn’t really care where else my mother pinched her grocery dollars, but soft TP was and is a PRIORITY. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-those-studio-sized-restroom-stalls-warning-tmi/296637/25 "2005-03-31T03:44:40Z")
Sorry for being a little off topic but what about the toilet paper in supposedly good mid-range hotel rooms? Hampton Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Fairfield Inn? I’m looking at you. I mean you give out complimentary copies of US Today yet you can’t afford to put even a low grade commercial toilet paper in the rooms? I mean this stuff feels just like the brown paper that gas station restrooms dispense, only thinner. What? I’m going to pay 90$ a night for this room and then steal a roll if you upgraded to Charmin? I really don’t get it. I don’t have a sensitive anus for the most part but after eating road food all day, Mr anus will usually be sad after the ordeal and would like a little bit of relief. I guess I’ll just have to bring my own roll. Fuckers :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-those-studio-sized-restroom-stalls-warning-tmi/296637/26 "2005-03-31T04:28:57Z")
First - great story. Been there, done that (unfortunately). Second, > [@MasterSparky](#): > > and the demented fucks who architected the damn building I don’t know about this particular building, but it’s a fairly common occurence that they weren’t designed that way. Oftentimes, there are two normal sized stalls (48" IIRC), but the ADA - American’s with Disabilities Act - requires all public businesses to provide a handicap accessible stall that is 60" wide (again, IIRC). It’s prohibitively expensive to move the toilet, so they end up moving just the partition, which results in the studio apartment sized arrangement. Not that I’m defending the practice, 'cause it really pisses me off, too. It’s just the financial reality of the situation. Of course, I fully support a hearty condemnation of the lazy, worthless jerk / over-worked, underpaid employee who doesn’t replenish the toilet paper often enogh to prevent this senseless tragedy. I’d also pit the selfish jerks who use half a roll of tp to clean off the seat and the other half to make sure their fingers don’t come into physical contact with any part of their nether anatomy - :wally es! Finally, kudos to you on having the decency to clean up after yourself. Apparently, most people don’t. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-those-studio-sized-restroom-stalls-warning-tmi/296637/27 "2005-03-31T05:38:25Z")
People don’t think when setting up a bathroom (or most other rooms, for that matter). I ask the female of the household to tell me where she wants a paper dispenser located, as in “Sit down, and where your hand falls, there shall it be” mode. Not being sexist-just realistic. A guy will wipe his butt with a roofing shingle if that’s all that’s available. A happy woman will call me for the next remodeling project. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-those-studio-sized-restroom-stalls-warning-tmi/296637/28 "2005-03-31T06:45:08Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > A guy will wipe his butt with a roofing shingle if that’s all that’s available. A happy woman will call me for the next remodeling project. 😉 LOL, lovely description=) My german buddy Christian has a really nice chromed steel floor stand that holds the TP roll, so it can be moved around. I tortured him when I visited him - I would move it around \ and I also would sneak the shower head up and down the rod it was on an inch or so a day 😃 3 weeks allowed lots of OCD-fu=) I know that german OCDness about things being right and correct is a stereotype, but it is funny playing with it=) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-those-studio-sized-restroom-stalls-warning-tmi/296637.md?page=1)