Can ask a question about this wrt bathrooms? ("No, I am not your personal tour guide today," is a perfectly acceptable answer.)
I am fat, and I find "standard" public restroom stalls very uncomfortable, sometimes inaccessible -- they're not wide enough for my knees, there's not enough space between the door and the toilet for me pull up my pants, and somehow, something's always going to end up wet. However, I was taught that the accessible stalls should be used only 1) if one is disabled, or 2) if everything else is full and there are no visibly-disabled people in line. That it is rude for (temporarily) able-bodied people to use accessible bathroom stalls just because they're roomy. I generally consider myself able-bodied, but I really find the standard stalls un-doable at times. What to do in this situation?
My gut reaction is that *all* stalls should be built to be more accommodating to a wider range of people, as well as insuring that there are stalls that accommodate wheelchairs and other assistive devices. But that's sort of a larger, systemic solution.
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I am fat, and I find "standard" public restroom stalls very uncomfortable, sometimes inaccessible -- they're not wide enough for my knees, there's not enough space between the door and the toilet for me pull up my pants, and somehow, something's always going to end up wet. However, I was taught that the accessible stalls should be used only 1) if one is disabled, or 2) if everything else is full and there are no visibly-disabled people in line. That it is rude for (temporarily) able-bodied people to use accessible bathroom stalls just because they're roomy. I generally consider myself able-bodied, but I really find the standard stalls un-doable at times. What to do in this situation?
My gut reaction is that *all* stalls should be built to be more accommodating to a wider range of people, as well as insuring that there are stalls that accommodate wheelchairs and other assistive devices. But that's sort of a larger, systemic solution.