Question? Handicap bathroom

[Rozzie]

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If they are taking that long, I just assume they are constipated and can't help it...

 

[mamawolf544]

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If it states with a sign Handicap, that is what it is intended to be used for. I am not picking a fight. I just must be super talented that I can take my GK's the the bathroom and use the regualar stall. I have 3 GK's and have always managed to take them to the bathroom alone putting each one in the stall. helping the child if needed and holding the door for privacy as I stand on the outside with my other GK's and just keep rotating. Target and JC penney's to name a few has a Family bathroom for people to all go into. And you wouldn't like seeing little ole me come out of that bathroom after I have been on the cellphone, checking my make-up, etc, while you sit and wait with your little ones that need to go potty.

This just seems to be a big attitude with our Country, no please, thank you, your welcome. Talking on the phone about everything, in front of everybody. Using services that clearly are not intended for you. Come on folks their is 1 stall and the stores didn't want to put them in, nor ramps or parking places.

Off my soapbox again

 

[Dunkopf]

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If they are taking that long, I just assume they are constipated and can't help it...

Yep, I sure wouldn't hang out in a public toilet stall any longer than necessary. I don't care for the smells from the other stalls.

 

[EweSheep]

I will use the HC stalls if they are available. I loathe some of the stores, McD's and certain stores that you could not bend down to sit on the toliet without hitting her face against the stall door or elbows rubbing the walls. UGH! Or the toliet paper dispensers are tight in the way of your leg when you enter or sit down. And pain in the butt when you get up and open the door, and ou have to plaster your back against it to OPEN wide for you to get out. I may be big but it was that way when I lost alot of weight....same thing and same problems.

And during the CW reenactments or living history, it is very imprudent I MUST use the handicap stall with hooped skirts...... no one wants toliet water or pee on the back of their dresses. UGH! And it takes alot of time to dress and set up the hoops and we do not want to get undressed. AND no I will not use those open holed pantaloons.......its nasty if you ask me LOL!

 

[BlacksheepCardigans]

This actually reminds me of a great Kathy Buckley routine where she says she's deaf (which she is) and therefore can use the giant handicapped stall without guilt - and the whole time she's in there she's thinking about where she'd put a couch.

My daughter falls under ADA protections, so I know some of them pretty well. The handicapped stall in the bathroom is not restricted to disabled only; it must be installed but does not need to be restricted or policed. Anyone can use them.

Since my kids are 13, 12, 6, and 3, I've been helping toddlers in stalls pretty much continually for the last dozen years. I can't do it in the small stall, especially if whoever is the baby at the time is also with me. Even if I don't have a baby I have to keep opening the door when whoever the pottying kid is doesn't have any clothes on, which I am really not comfortable with. The handicapped stall lets me herd several kids inside, securely lock the door, help whoever needs help, get everyone decent again, and leave.

And oh my heavens yes do I still use a stroller with a three-year-old. I'd use an iron maiden if it would get her to sit still and not touch stuff

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[Wifezilla]

The handicapped stall in the bathroom is not restricted to disabled only; it must be installed but does not need to be restricted or policed. Anyone can use them.

Exactly. Even though you park your butt in there, it isn't like a handicapped parking space for goodness sake!

Like I said earlier, I am very tall. I am also just big in general. Blame my Viking ancestors. I can barely fit in a regular stall. We don't all get a special stall based on our individual needs to only be used by people with a similar condition. Do you have any idea how expensive it is to build and maintain a public restroom in the first place? You are lucky that there is more than 1 stall at all. Many places have just that...one person at a time.

What makes anyone think they don't have to ever wait in line???

I think a sense of entitlement is also a problem in this country along with general rude behavior.​

 

[wolftracks]

WAAAAAYYY back when I was 35 I had a brain tumor and had had 3 major strokes. I'm not parylized, things work normal to the outside world, but I've had 2 more strokes since then and I do have some issues.

I still have a had time with crowds, standing in line and yep, tall to boot, so those little things that would make an outhouse look like a palace are to enclosed.

While I still had the tumor I was at a store, used the handicapped restroom so I could grab the bar if I felt I was going to fall. I finish asap in a public bathroom. Don't like using them at all. I walked out and a lady (well not really) read me the riot act for using that stall. I just ignored her and tried ot get out before she gave me a migraine (and eventually she did).

This woman even left the bathroom to follow me and harrass me for 3 isles. Finally the manager showed up and I thought "Oh great now I have to explain my problems in front of everyone." I was shocked though, because the manager explained to her that the stalls are there as a curtesy, not as a sole space like a parking space. The woman said she'd have his job and was going to call whoever was his boss. Thing is this woman, never went to the bathroom, followed me outside the store and still kept it up. I was with my then best friend and had walked out of the store she was in. She watched me like a hawk and she was panicked. She was looking for me and saw what was going on. Next thing I knew there was a crowd around us and all my business was thrown out into the mall. Friend went off big time.

The next week there was a letter to the editor in the Daily Review (Bay Area paper) where a woman wrote about the stalls. I swear it was the same woman. It had to be. BTW, my friend had to read it to me because I hadn't been able to read after the strokes. I told everyone it gave me headaches, but truthfully I could not read. Had to learn over. Anyway they decided to investigate about it and the verdict was, the stalls were a curtesey and had to be there legally to provide acccesssibility, but were in no way limited to the handicapped.

And I use them now because I still need to and especially when I have GKs along. No way can 2 people, even a little one, get into those stalls together and the safety of the child is important. Kids have been snatched from restrooms for as long as they've been in existance, so it's that momma wolf thing going on. Nothing personal, I'm a momma wolf. LOL

I do get a little upset when 5 teenagers are in there laughing and goofing around. I know I never have had a friend come in while I gotta go! LOL Irrating.

 

[cluckcluck42]

It must be so frustrating to have to use the handicapped stall and not be able to. I admit I use it when there is one available and no one in the bathroom. I only ever take quick pees in public washrooms as I would not want to force someone who needs to use it into another stall. I also have RA albeit it just started last year so I can sympathize with how painful it must be to get around. Big hugs for you.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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If it states with a sign Handicap, that is what it is intended to be used for. I am not picking a fight. I just must be super talented that I can take my GK's the the bathroom and use the regualar stall. I have 3 GK's and have always managed to take them to the bathroom alone putting each one in the stall. helping the child if needed and holding the door for privacy as I stand on the outside with my other GK's and just keep rotating. Target and JC penney's to name a few has a Family bathroom for people to all go into. And you wouldn't like seeing little ole me come out of that bathroom after I have been on the cellphone, checking my make-up, etc, while you sit and wait with your little ones that need to go potty.

This just seems to be a big attitude with our Country, no please, thank you, your welcome. Talking on the phone about everything, in front of everybody. Using services that clearly are not intended for you. Come on folks their is 1 stall and the stores didn't want to put them in, nor ramps or parking places.

Off my soapbox again

Also not trying to pick a fight, but what do you do with your GK's if you are alone with them in the store and YOU have to go? Do you leave them standing in the bathroom? Leave them in the cart? If they are older, you can get away with that, but if they are young I wouldn't do it. There are too many weirdos in the world for me to risk my child not being where I can see him.
Granted, if I'm at the store with him and HE has to go (but I don't), I'll let him go into the men's bathroom by himself...but I stand guard at the door and wait for him to come out. If he's taking longer than I think he should I'll call through the doorway for him, if he doesn't answer I'll go in and see why not.

 

[PotterWatch]

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If it states with a sign Handicap, that is what it is intended to be used for. I am not picking a fight. I just must be super talented that I can take my GK's the the bathroom and use the regualar stall. I have 3 GK's and have always managed to take them to the bathroom alone putting each one in the stall. helping the child if needed and holding the door for privacy as I stand on the outside with my other GK's and just keep rotating. Target and JC penney's to name a few has a Family bathroom for people to all go into. And you wouldn't like seeing little ole me come out of that bathroom after I have been on the cellphone, checking my make-up, etc, while you sit and wait with your little ones that need to go potty.

This just seems to be a big attitude with our Country, no please, thank you, your welcome. Talking on the phone about everything, in front of everybody. Using services that clearly are not intended for you. Come on folks their is 1 stall and the stores didn't want to put them in, nor ramps or parking places.

Off my soapbox again

Yes, it is intended to be a toilet that is easier for someone with disabilities to use, but as others have said; it is not for their exclusive use. Often, when my kids were small enough to be in a stroller, I was using the toilet along with them so the larger stall made that possible. No way could I have fit into a small one with both my kids and my stroller. If I didn't bring the stroller, I would have had to hold the younger one on my lap and try to wipe with one hand and the other holding the baby. No thank you. Not to mention keeping the older one from touching every nasty thing in the stall. I consider myself to be a polite person. I always say please and thank you, I hold doors for people, I don't talk on my cell phone when it is rude, but I do use the handicap restroom when it is open and there is no one waiting specifically for that stall. I don't think that makes me a person with an attitude.

For the record, my husband is disabled to a certain extent and the handicap stall is often useful for him since it has the hand rails. He doesn't see that stall as being only for disabled people though.