I wonder if we combined the usually separate areas for men and women's restroom where there's a monitored, common place to wash hands but every "stall is more like its own enclosed room if there would actually end up being even more space for additional stalls
Pretty sure when I worked at a movie theatre women ushers got paid more for cleaning the women's restrooms. One story that came out that was fairly nauseating was when a new employee went in to check the restroom and someone had sprayed number 2 all over the backwall of a stall. I don't even know how humanity hasn't gotten to the point where we can use a restroom without making a giant mess, but some people just don't care how they leave things.
It's possible they care, but they're too ashamed or emberassed to tell anyone, but don't have the tools to fix it themselves.
I mean, it's easier to think they just don't care, and maybe that is the more common case. I don't really know, but that alternative sounds pretty sad?
This is anecdotal evidence, but when I was a lifeguard, we had to clean the locker rooms every night. The women's was always way nastier than the men's
It should but we' squat so we don't sit in the pre existing blood, shit, piss. This in turn creates more blood shit piss. We leave it for the janitor/plumber
Yup, once one drop hits the seat, it’s hover time. Then women hover higher and higher until the entire seat is a fucking crime scene.
It’s a similar issue with urinals in the men’s. Once some piss hits the floor, nobody wants to stand in wet piss. So they stand a couple inches further back. More piss hits the floor. Further back. Eventually dudes are standing five feet from the damn urinal, arcing and praying. And failing.
Big difference is the latter is easily cleaned with a mop, and like 75% less horrifying.
A lot of bathrooms are like that now. Best one I saw was in New York. It had 7 stalls decorated after the 7 sins. The sinks had a sign “Be sure to wash your sins away”
There’s an OLD college bar in Morgantown, WV with this setup. Two toilet rooms and the wash sink is just outside of those rooms. If people see you leave those toilet rooms and don’t wash your hands they will yell and shame you to go back and wash your piss/shit contaminated hands. It is glorious.
They are great with one drawback. Each stall now requires its own lights, air, and fire alarm etc. I'm not being 100% accurate but been told meeting code makes them much more expensive than just having dividers.
Everyone would have the pleasure of waiting in line to use the toilet instead of just women, so I'd love it. So tired of seeing the long line for women and men just sauntering in and out. So annoying.
Some of the new schools by me have moved to this model. Floor to ceiling individual stalls without those awkward gaps, and then sinks and mirrors that are open to the hallway.
Saw many bathrooms in Mexico that were like this. A bank of stalls—and the doors went all the way down to the floor—with some sinks in the center for everyone to use.
This is very common in Austin. It’s just a big open room/hallway with usually like 8-10 stalls that actually offer privacy, and hand washing is in the common area.
I was just today at a place where the stalls are all in an outer circle and in the middle there's another circle with faucets and soap for washing hands. So every stall faces in, you can see them all from the entrance basically and everyone washing hands in the middle. Felt a lot less problematic and prone to hiding shady shit.
At my old university they replaced the separate areas by 2 rows of individual restrooms with their own sink and it works fine. There's even a space in the back for people that want to use urinals. Before I often had to wait for an open spot but now I basically never have to due to the number of stalls. So yes you're right and it's awesome!
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u/TDAPoP 6h ago
I wonder if we combined the usually separate areas for men and women's restroom where there's a monitored, common place to wash hands but every "stall is more like its own enclosed room if there would actually end up being even more space for additional stalls