Perhaps Lieu dropped a real stinker.
Were there really 45 stalls? I thought she was exaggerating for effect.
Having learned in a previous thread on this that handicapped people don’t just need the extra space, but they often have to go in a bigger hurry than a non-handicapped person (thanks, Broomstick!) I don’t use the handicapped stall if I think I won’t be able to get out before someone else needs to get in.
I was in a regular stall last week that was so small that I had to squeeze in next to the toilet to close the door (I see this more and more; don’t know why). I was in another one a few weeks ago where I had to lean to one side on the toilet because the sanitary disposal box was up against my shoulder. If there are no handicapped people around and the bathroom is relatively empty, I will often use the handicapped stall, figuring the odds of someone coming in who needs it is extremely small, and I’m extremely fast. Most often it’s used by mothers with youngsters. I’ve never held up anyone who needed it.
Is it possible the 13-year-old girls were changing their clothes? It seems odd.
Why single out females? Does this mean the don’t use the handicap stall if you don’t have a disability rule doesn’t apply in the men’s room?
I almost always use the handicap stall if it’s available. I like the extra space. Guess my momma didn’t teach me right.
Yeah, handicapped people can just fuck right off, unless they’re claustrophobic, and understand what real suffering is.
Boy, am I glad I only have sons. I teach them to just pee wherever they happen to be standing.
What kind of “hidden disability” requires a wheelchair-accessible stall? Telescoping coccyx? Riverdance Syndrome? Spontaneous mermaidism?
Being a teenager is a disability.
How does the bag-launcher know that the person currently in the HA stall isn’t actually H?
Those sound like the side effects of Stephen Colbert’s products. 
Doesn’t. One of life’s risks.
I’m trying to figure out what kind of restroom could possibly have 45 stalls? That was surely a gross exaggeration; I think the largest I’ve ever seen had perhaps 12 stalls, which made for a long row.
Of course, that wasn’t the point of the post.
Football/baseball,etc stadium.
Anything that makes you dizzy which might make the handrails and extra room welcome.
If it’s not available, will you use a regular stall? IMHO, if the extent of your mental disability is such that you are unable to use a regular stall, then using the handicapped stall is OK.
P.S. Is there any treatment for severe claustrophobia? My wife for example doesn’t like small enclosed areas but she is capable of using a “normal” bathroom stall.
You’re right. She didn’t.
If you are * that * claustrophobic you probably need to medicated, if that’s possible for your condition. What you are doing is rude.
Since the handicapped stalls are the ones with the rails to help you stand back up, that would include: arthritis in the knees, MS, conjestive heart failure, unsteady gait, etc. Basically anything that causes unsteadyness, loss of balance, fatigue . . .
No where did I say it was reserved for me. I only said out of common courtesy, leave the handicap stall when you have other options. I don’t have any other options making me wait while Precious likes the extra space is just plain rude.
Claustrophobia IS a handicap, for crying out loud. I’m not talking about Stephen Hawking here. Handicaps come in many forms.
See above…in my world, having a one-year-old IS a handicap. Of course you need the extra room.
Uh, no. All three places where this stood out were completely and totally empty when I arrived but for the one stall that I could use.
If she had something like Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis or another unseen affliction, then I concede. Based on my unprofessional non-doctor opinion, all three girls were just your average 13-year-olds.
OK, you caught me. I didn’t count the fricken stalls. I was at the mall, a large multi-plex theater, and the Coliseum…I’m guessing 10-15 stalls on each side of the aisle and a single handicap stall at the very back. In two of the locations, the girls had to walk past ALL of the available stalls to take the one handicap one.
No. None of them were carrying clothes or any bags.
I singled out women’s rooms because I don’t make it a habit to use the men’s room. Since boys pee wherever they want, it didn’t seem like there would be much issue in the men’s room.
See above. Do you have some anger issues or is your post a whoosh?
She was being sarcastic to Alice The Goon.