Is it time to go High School on bathroom stalls?

[itsrobert]

My high school removed the doors from all the stalls. Why? I don't know, but I would "hold it" until I got home.

[Turbineguy]

1. That's inconvenient

those doors are where I like to put my little warning sticker:

BEWARE OF LIMBO DANCERS!

[DaveJ]

4. Totally unnecessary

I noticed rest stops now have half sized doors. I think removing the stall doors entirely in HS's might be a little traumatic to many kids, and not the ones who actually use them.

[Squatch]

2. That's nothing...

when I joined the Army, our barracks had a line of shitters with nothing in between them. You learned to get over your modesty rather quickly.

[sharp_stick]

5. I think all barracks are that way

That's a big reason why I have a near phobia about public restrooms now. Not really bad enough to call it a true phobia but I'm in and out as fast as I can be, even at work and they keep them pretty clean. It still amazes me that people are able to sit on a toilet and read a newspaper.

I despise being in them.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. That scene in "No Time For Sergeants" where they get the row of

toilets to salute was enough to keep me from ever enlisting!

[DaveJ]

6. Good point -- they're bringing the military home

Apparently it's another step in strengthening the military industrial complex.

[MADem]

11. My first thought was boot camp, too.....

[VP505]

15. That was my experience in the Navy

there were a line of 15 or so, took some getting used to but there was no way around using them.

[YOY]

3. Smoking and/or drug use would be my first guess

Students hiding from class could be another.

I've done both...:smoke:


I remember when I was in HS one guy got caught rubbing one out in the stall during a dance. I guess his date got him all hot and bothered... :rofl: Maybe they're afraid of that.

[sharp_stick]

7. better than the alternative I suppose

poking her during the slow dance could have been really bad. ;-)

[YOY]

12. He transferred to another school shortly afterwards

We went to a Catholic School...not an overtly strict one, but a Catholic school none-the-less. Most of the girls who "went all the way" were either "long-term-with-the-same-boyfriend" or "waaaaaaay too easy." The others were not as open and of the "saving it for marriage(or really for college)" types.

My friends and I discussed it in college and found it funny that half of us, despite being in the "in crowd" didn't loose our virginity until we were in college. A funny thing is the gay guy I knew but never talked to until college told me that had been going at it with another guy in the locker room when nobody was looking during those dances.

I always felt for the guy. He picked up the name "Stickey Mickey" afterwards and was a social pariah. He had to go to another school...whether they expelled him or he left of his own vocation. A lot of us were pent up with hormones and there was not easy outlet. Sympathized mind you...not empathized. That's just gross.

[AlCzervik]

8. when i was in London i noticed the stall doors (ladies room) were full length

even at the airport. That was nice because you hang your purse on the hook on the stall door and didn't have to worry that someone was going to reach over and take it.

[deadmessengers]

10. Mine, too

Went to 2 different high schools - neither of them had doors on the stalls. Needless to say, I made sure to "go" BEFORE I went to school.

[LittleClarkie]

13. I guess it's the smokers they want to look out for

But who wants a teacher peering in on you as you do your thing.

Meanwhile, it used to annoy the shit out of me to have to ask a smoker to move off the can so that I could use the stall for the purpose for which it was originally intended.

[Jed Dilligan]

14. I'm for floor to ceiling doors and walls

No foot-tapping weirdos, no wafting stench or wet fart noises, just a good secure place to take a dump. They have them in Europe.

I had to take a crap in a no-door stall in a dive bar once, and I have to say it was extremely scary.

[The_Casual_Observer]

16. They might as welltake them all out then, nobody uses those.

[formerrepuke]

17. They did that in my school as well.. I hated that a minority of bathroom smokers

(literally- they were just smoking cigarettes) deprived the rest of us of privacy.