Toilet Stalls--With And Without Doors

Hmmmmmm...I never thought of that. These stalls seem to have been built that way--but, perhaps, built that way after enough men thought it was macho to rip them off their hinges to where they just gave up on putting them on in the first place. Actually, we women will talk to each other at times while using the bathroom. But we're just not on display for everybody and her sister who happens to come in there--or on the occasions when some guy wanders in accidentally or accidentally-on-purpose being on display for everyone and his brother. One time, I really had to pee badly when I found out that the maintenance man was in the women's restroom cleaning things up. He was about my dad's age or older, so I told him that if he didn't mind my coming on in, I didn't mind his staying in to finish what he was doing, so I went on in, took a stall on the opposite side of the room, and did my business. As I was washing my hands at the sink, he and I engaged in small talk. Then I left, and he was still cleaning things up. As for men talking to each other while in the stall, our minister told this story just yesterday about this guy who was sitting in a restroom stall in an airport doing his business when he hears this guy in the next stall say, "Good Morning!" The man wasn't really used to having another man starting a conversation with him when they were both using the restroom, but he decided that there wasn't that much wrong with it, so he responded, "Good Morning!" back at him. The guy asked him how he was doing that day, and he replied that he was doing fine. The other guy said something else, and he replied--and, then, the other guy said, "I need to hang up and call you back later, because there's a guy in the next stall answering all of my questions!"

I have no real idea to tell you the truth. I don't know anybody that goes around ripping doors off of stalls. Or anything disgusting that goes on in a men's bathroom. Trust me, doors missing is not the biggest problem in men's bathrooms... Not even close... As for that joke. Funny stuff. =D

Believe it or not, that was a true story! And I can believe it, because both my mom and I have gone shopping and answered a near-by "Hello!"--only to find out that we were getting into a conversation with somebody talking on a cell-phone. This has happened to Russell as well! In case you don't know who Russell is, go here... http://www.freewebs.com/learn-about-iyn/

Do that! And, as soon as you get his take on this question, please share it here! I have the feeling that it would be interesting...

Since I am a girl I don't have much experiences with mens bathrooms. I can say that my son always comments on the condition of the bathroom and I have never heard him comment on missing doors. I do know about th e military thing you are talking about, but I have only heard of that a few places - like the firing ranges.

Really!?! I've heard of them a lot of places. For example, where I went to grade school and during my first two years of high school. During my last two, we had consolidated and had a brand-new building, and the men's bathroom had doors with stalls and locks just like the ladies'. When I was four years old (sometime in 1957) and too young to go into a public restroom unaccompanied, I was in my dad's care, so he took me to a restroom at a bowling alley. I can remember this big, baldheaded man sitting on one of the toilets. I think that everything else was urinals, so we went somewhere else, as it looked as if the man were going to be there for awhile.

One more thing! I've heard that it's often commonplace in the military not to even have stalls but, instead, just a kind of trough you sit over side-by-side.