Whistlers, hummers and gum snappers are pretty high on my list.
And please, please never sing to yourself around other people unless they have requested it. This goes double if you have your headphones blasting and can’t tell how loud you are or how much you suck.
I feel sorry for able-bodied men who use the handicapp stall when a regular stall is availible.
Small, self-centered people.
How pitiful.
Depends!
They have this thing out now, maybe you’ve heard of it, I think it’s called dry cleaning.
Well, even if that could fix every problem, it’s expensive and inconvenient, so (again, even if it was a magic cure-all) it doesn’t make it okay to eat where you could ruin someone’s clothes.
I eat on the train.
My university doesn’t provide accommodation, so I have a 1.5 hour journey home and a 6 hour block of classes. I’m also diabetic.
It’s either eat on the train home, or risk having a Hypo. Sorry, but I’m not putting my health in risk to accommodate your precious sensibilities.
I go out of my way to seat as far away from people, and I make sure it’s not stinky/messy foods, but I have to eat.
How can you tell if someone is disabled? Not everyone’s problems are visible. My grandmother looks normal. My grandmother can walk.
However, she has A LOT of trouble sitting down and getting up. It’s very, very painful for her, especially if there is nothing to hold onto.
Disabled stalls usually have handles etc and that makes going to the toilet much less painful and strenuous for her.
I hope you have exceptions for that rule. There is a boy in my neighborhood who wears his one pair of shoes everywhere and only takes them off to shower or sleep. The reason is that he has one leg seriously shorter than the other so he wears a special shoe on the short leg that was made just for him so he can walk as others do. The shoes are horribly expensive so he only has the one pair until he outgrows it and heads to another.
What!?
Why is your grandmother using the men’s room?
She’s not the only person in the world with an invisible disability. :smack:
If I’m at the movies and there is nobody sitting in front of me or to the sides of the seat in front of me; my feet are going up.
If I have to take a shit, I’m using the HC stall.
And yeah, I’m not going to sit in pain with my legs crossed just because you have an uncontrollable urge to look at my dick.
Why go out of your way to use it instead of a normal one?
Because I’m 6’, 215lbs. Using the regular one feels like a coffin. My feeling might be different if at 42 I could count the number of times on more than one hand that I’ve actually seen a handicap person using those stalls.
The odds are pretty damn slim that a HC person is going to need it at the same time I do. And even then, the odds are even slimmer that his condition involves him not being able to hold it like everyone else does.
I’ll take my chances.
You’re welcome then. You’re welcome for the existence of those of us for whom those stalls are necessary and for whom they were built for providing you a comfortable place to shit when you are out in public. I won’t hold my breath waiting for a sincere “thank you”.
A big problem with public men’s rooms, in my opinion, is that the standard, non-handicap stalls frequently don’t provide any clean or secure place where you can put your wallet and similarly important personal items. Usually the only option is the floor, and if the stall partitions don’t go all the way down, it’s anything but secure. By contrast, the handicap stall is generally against the wall and you can put your stuff up against the wall there. So I’ll use the handicap stall once in awhile if I have to, but that’s rare.
I’m 6’1" and weighed 17 stone (238 lbs) before I put on a lot of extra weight following surgery. I don’t know what I’m at now. If I’m fine in normal stalls, so are you.
Also just because you’ve never come out to find an obviously disabled person waiting to go in after you doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. For a disabled person the event that some able bodied person feels like using the extra wide stall while they have to wait happens pretty regularly - we’ve heard from two people it happens to in this thread alone. One of whom has mentioned that no, sometimes he can’t manage to hold it.
I’m not saying it doesn’t happen. I’m saying the odds are so ridiculously in my favor that it wont happen, I’ll take my chances.
But you aren’t taking your chances. You’re not the one who’ll suffer if some guy in a wheelchair was sat outside waiting for you to finish, he is. Especially if he can’t hold it. You’re taking his chances, for a completely inane, selfish reason.