Like many offices, my office has a bathroom. One men’s and one women’s for the floor. The men’s has two stalls and one urinal and I can only dream of what the women's bathroom is like, but I'll save that for a future post. Sounds normal right? I guess it is, if you like to poop back and forth. Having only two stalls is horrible, the most grievous interior design flaw committed in a public restroom. It’s better to just have either one or have three (or more), two is out of the question. Why? I’m glad you asked, when you enter the bathroom, and need to go number two and somebody is occupying one out of two stalls, what do you do?
A) You enter the open stall
B) You enter the occupied stall
C) You leave and come back when both stalls are free
The correct answer is C. You cannot, under even extreme circumstances, sit down right next to man and expect either of you to perform a sit-down operation in peace. You can see each other’s shoes, you can hear him clicking buttons on his phone, and you both sacrifice comfort and efficiency to be silent and polite. We are in a bathroom, why the shyness? I don’t know, its just expected. There is a certain degree of anonymity in this environment, but not nearly enough to comfortably relieve yourself without potentially opening yourself up to ridicule and isolation will ultimately leads to death. In other words, these two stalls ain't big enough for the two of us.
On the other hand, place a stall between the two and the distance will make both of you much more comfortable. Remove a stall and the decision is made for you and everybody wins, eventually, once we wait our turn.
“But you’re asking a lot, changing the whole bathroom around like that.” I beg to differ, all you have to do is remove the door on one of the stalls, then it will become an additional urinal. Nobody craps in a stall that has no door, unless you’re some kind of freak. Remove the toilet seat too if you're that worried about it. I plan on returning to my office this weekend to remove a stall door from the bathroom. Follow my lead.
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