Aging Boomer Chick Diatribes - Toilet Stall Diatribe
Ok, so here you are in the train station or the airport with your roller bag and your tote, and of course you should go to the bathroom to try to avoid the contest of peeing while the train or plane jostles you around, and you are swaying to and fro or shoved around by sudden jolts, and you are trying desperately to keep your pants dry. (Yes, I am talking about women, and I will expound on this in another blog.)
Into the restroom you go, and here is the point of this blog: Why oh why oh why do they make toilet stall doors open inward?? I would much rather watch that I don’t get smacked in the head by an opening door than go through the trauma that awaits me. The stall is too damn small, and the door opens inward! You pull your suitcase in and wedge yourself into the wall so that you can lift the suitcase over to the other side. The toilet is a precarious ½ inch from you and just teeming with germs, bacteria and viruses and horrible things that you will never recover from if you touch it with any part of your body. You inch the suitcase over; you inch yourself over; you finally manage to clear the door so you can shut it. Aaii! The evil toilet is looming! What happens next is for a future blog, but rest assured the whole process must be repeated to flee the murderous toilet cell, but at least at this point you don’t have to hold it in as well as inching and lifting and sliding and pushing and pulling and, of course, swearing.
I am so traumatized by this state of affairs that I often have dreams of searching for a bathroom and finally I find a huge, stadium type restroom with scores of stalls, but….when I open the stall door and try to get in, there is no way I can get past the door to reach the toilet of my nirvana.
Public restroom designers, arise! Take your place as the savior of humanity! I beseech you - insist that your doors open outward!
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Good point. May I point out however that on the train the doors slide and besides you don't have to take your luggage with you into the bathroom. Moreover, if you insist on hovering over the toilet (or even if not), there's a handle you can hold onto while doing your chores. Get a grip, Abby!
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who thinks of such things? and who decides if bathroom doors swing in or out? is it each random construction worker? the construction company? the architect? the airport authority that puts it in its specs? the city or state that puts it in its code? is it in the UN Charter? do other countries have this problem? how do decisions of such magnitude get made? how do we get them changed? So many questions. So little time on earth.
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Well, now, Missy. Here's the real deal. Bathrooms were designed by men who know it all. What do they know? NADA!! God made them equipped for ANY situation!!! We women of the world should unite to fix toilets!! I will put THAT in my bucket list. Hugs to all.
Cupcake
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Dear Ms. Chick-
Why is it always the bathroom? Why can't we all just get along with the plumbing - the design of things? Why can't we be more plastic in our approach to life's challenges? Do we need a full report? Should we form a committee? a team? a commission? This existential question needs more study, more contemplation, meditation - and so I rest to ponder.
A. Nonymous
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Yes! A terrific idea! A Commission - that is what we need!! I will be the Chair, of course. You, Ms. A. Nonymous may be the Table. Perhaps Cupcake would like to be the Credenza where we will keep piles and piles of paper. Excellent!
Abby.
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Took me some time to read all the comments, but I certainly enjoyed the article. It proved to be incredibly helpful to me and I am sure to all the commenters here! It's generally nice when you can not only be informed, but also entertained! I'm positive you had fun writing this article.
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You write very interesting articles can't wait for more posts
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Hello Mr. Expert,
When are going to write up a follow up article on this post... is it going to be anytime soon?
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Glad you are looking for more on this important topic! I shall think about this some more. I am getting sidetracked by Totally DeTestable Technology!
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