Really? Did you watch the entire clip? I thought he was in the right in that episode.
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Oops. I took too long to respond.
And again, you know she was disabled HOW?
I still don’t get why you’d need a handicapped stall when you had a cast on your arm. I’m not trying to be snarky, I really don’t get it. Can you explain what you’d be doing that would require that?
Where are all of my passive-aggressive Doper Friends? I need a snarky remark like, “Oh, I’m sorry about your disability, dear.” That way if she was disabled, it could be taken as a genuine sentiment and if she wasn’t, it would substitute for the “stank eye”.
I can’t answer for Annie-Xmas, but stalls are tiny. I have to manuever around the toilet and the toilet paper dispenser in a regular stall just to close the door. If I had a cast on, this would be a lot easier to handle (along with stuff like unrolling toilet paper) in a wider stall.
Prehensile rectum.
Now THAT could be handy…
Who was it that posted on that a few years ago, relating what he encountered while working at a psychiatric facility?
Here it is http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=1800866&postcount=60 by Astroboy14 in Billy Rubin’s thread.
Just one more thing that parent’s need to teach their children not to do.
Yeah, I can see this in some really cramped bathrooms, but it seems weird to use it all the time. FTR, I have had my arm in a cast, and I genuinely don’t remember using a regular restroom as one of the issues I had. I do remember that I wore sweatpants* for a while since I clearly couldn’t use one hand at all and the other was all bruised from the IV (had surgery on the arm), so regular pants were nigh impossible. But no amount of extra space would have helped with that.
*Suck on that, anti-sweatpants people!
Honestly, it seems like womens’ stalls are getting smaller everywhere. (Well, I assume the same is true for mens’ stalls, but the last time I was in a mens’ room was a drunken night in 1989.) I cannot think of a stall that I’ve been in over the last several years in many different locations where I didn’t have to manuever around to close the door. I’m sure if I came across one I’d remember it because I’d be thinking, “Ah, the luxury!!” 
Aah, I love this. Pissing (heh) contest on who is more victim at life, the claustro or the motoretard.
Some tranny or two should be thrown in the arena to make it more snackable 
I’ve been in bathrooms where the average sized American (read fat) could not fit. I’ve also been in one where, if you are tall, and have to spread your legs at all, you can’t use it. The latter is at the local mall. People wonder why every store in it has been going out of business (the exception being those that have their own bathroom).
Plus, I used the handicapped stall as a teenager, again for height reasons. For some reason, a toilet of a decent height is a luxury only the handicapped get. I could at least fit on the lower toilet, as there was leg room, but I didn’t realize the other stall was a handicapped one. As a teen, if you didn’t spell something out for me, I didn’t get it. And there was no sign of any kind. Teens is stupid, u no?
I knew they were having problems, but is it so bad people would rather snark here? :eek:
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It was a full cast, from the middle of my upper arm to my fingers, rendering my elbow immobile. I needed the bars to help me stand up after using the toilet.
And the extra room helped with getting my pants up and down. I’m built with very long lega and a short torso, which made it very difficult with one hand.
Wanting to use the handicap stall because it is more comfortable (or whatever) is a “want,” not a “need.”
But wanting to have immediate access to a stall is also a “want,” and isn’t actually a need.
These are both desires to have a more pleasant bathroom experience, and I don’t see any room to rank one above the other. You’d like to always walk in to an open stall. She’d like to use a bigger stall. Neither one of you are really owed this, although it’s nice when it happens. When it doesn’t happen, it won’t hurt either one of you to wait the amount of time it takes for one person to use the toilet.
Whoever gets to the bathroom first gets their choice of stalls and doesn’t have to justify it to anyone. If there is a line, any disabled people in line should get use of the next disabled stall that opens up. Everyone should be efficient in the stalls- don’t spend all day smoking or texting. Do your business and get out.
Actually, I’d classify that as a need in some cases. Many people who have various disabilities also have some sort of nerve damage, which means that they don’t get the warning signs as early, and it also means that they aren’t as capable of holding in the urine or feces. A handicapped person might not have the luxury of waiting as long as an able bodied person.
If there’s a line, and there’s no handicapped people in line, then yes, the handicapped stall (or stalls) should be in use. However, those who CAN use the regular stalls SHOULD use those stalls and avoid using the handicapped stalls.
And nobody should be smoking in the bathroom at all. Texting in the stalls is right out. Texting in the handicapped stall…I wish that I’d thrown a bucket of water at the woman who did that. She was in the stall for a good five minutes, I checked my watch.
Bullshit. It’s not truth, it’s opinion and until there is a sign indicating a toilet is RESERVED I will continue to use one if it’s available unless there is a handicapped person already in it or in whatever line I might find myself in (although this has never happened to me once in my life) It’s not reserved for handicapped, it’s handicap-accessible. It’s not like the spaces reserved for the handicapped in a parking lot. If this was true, the restrooms with only one stall, designed with handicap access, would not be available to anyone else. It would be set aside from the non-handicap access restroom. Christ, it’s like twenty seconds from pants down to up again. My mom was disabled for 11 years before she passed so I’m well aware that those twenty seconds are not crucial or you don’t wait until you reach that point. If you’re that prone to incontinence wear a damned Depend like the rest of us.
The very accusation that it’s some sort of bad parenting or even neglect or that someone is bitten by pwecious pwincess syndrome if they don’t act in the way others might like is insane. Maybe you’re the pwecious one since you think just because you have a physical disability you should be entitled to more than access. You think you should not just have access, you should be the only one with it.
And who are you to determine if someone else is disabled anyway? My six year old is disabled but you wouldn’t know from seeing her because it’s not that kind of disability. So is she allowed to drop a load in your exclusive potty or does it have to be a special kind of disability? My mom was disabled but you sure couldn’t tell by looking at her. Maybe there should be a test and a card you have to slide to prove you’re handicap toilet material.
Until then I use the big stall.
Maybe your mom didn’t need those 20 seconds. But others do need it. I’m so glad that YOU are able to determine whether or not someone else needs that big stall, RIGHT NOW, and you put your own comfort over someone else’s need.
It seems that if waiting 20 seconds is so crucial then these folks would need bathrooms available to them immediately (without any wait, without any walk to the bathroom etc) and that doesn’t sound feasible to me. Also seems that some of these folks would appear to have no disability and would get the stink eye.