Doing business this afternoon, I was in the stall and heard my neighbor heave a sigh. It occurred to me then that he and I were only two feet apart, but with that all-important stall wall between us. I don’t think I could have accomplished anything if that wall weren’t there.
Which led me to start reflecting, as I am wont to do at such times, thinking how much adjustment it would take to try to do one’s business if that were the case. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an open toilet environment without stalls, but I understand they have those in the army or some such. If you found yourself confronted with such a restroom, and there were already people there with business underway, could you use it? I don’t think I could unless it were an absolute emergency.
I spent some fairly annoying quality time in hospitals, if I can crap on a bedpan, I can crap anywhere. :rolleyes: Just like I can actually fall asleep lights on, people talking and moving around me as long as i have at least a sheet over my body. Hospitals are good for training you to sleep through just about anything up to and including blood draws. I could never understand being woken up to be given something to help me sleep though
On a cross-country move a few years back, I had to make a pit stop at a rest stop just north of Salt Lake City. The stalls were just over waist-high, and didn’t have doors.
For extra discomfort, the neighbor in the next stall was chatty. :rolleyes:
Of course I could, and I really don’t understand those who cannot. It is a necessary bodily function that can cause discomfort, or medical harm to you if you hold it too long. Just go.
I did it squatting over a trough in a bathroom in Beijing, China next to a couple chatty men who were quite interested in a westerner making a fool of himself.
It depends who’s in there with me. Which is to say, probably not. The only people who have ever seen me grow a tail were extruded from me in a similar manner.
If you gotta go, you gotta go. If I had a choice of private stall or public dumping hole, I’d choose the privacy. But if that’s all there was, sure. I can get used to anything.
I recognize that sitting in a stall just a foot or two away from someone else on the other side of the wall can be an uncomfortable situation. But I suspect that the discomfort may be caused by the wall and that it supposedly provides “privacy”, when in reality there’s no privacy to speak of. I wouldn’t be surprised if without the dividing wall, the discomfort would also disappear.
DB- really? I’d let my wife see me take a dump before I’d let my kids watch it.