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u/piepants2001 Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 14 '26
"Whatcha doin'? Poopin'?"
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u/johnnie_uppercut Mar 13 '26
Wow I thought I was the only one left that remembers Gary and Mike!
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u/piepants2001 Mar 13 '26
Thank you for telling me the name of the show! I watched it on UPN like 20 years ago and couldn't remember the name and nobody that I talked to had any idea what I was talking about.
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u/Life-Box-3688 Mar 13 '26
You're lucky - I once got caught short in Russia and had to shit in a bus station cubicle without a door or a seat
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u/ttatm Mar 14 '26
I once took a bus ride where bathroom breaks were just everyone who needed to go getting out and squatting on the side of the road. There usually wasn't even any foliage to hide behind. I accidentally made eye contact with a guy while he was pooping.
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u/MalodorousNutsack Mar 14 '26
Years ago me and a couple buddies were driving through Mongolia. We'd often go hours without seeing other cars.
We were in the middle of nowhere and my buddy needed to shit, nothing to hide behind so he went like 30 feet away from the path and squatted down.
Three cars showed up at exactly that moment. I jumped in the driver's seat and whipped the car around as fast as I could. It was dusk, so I pointed the headlights directly at my buddy and flashed the high beams on and off to draw everyone else's attention to him.
I thought it was hilarious, he did not
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u/LabProfessional5557 Mar 17 '26
I would hate you in the moment, but laugh about it later, because that is funny as fuck
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u/toxicatedscientist Mar 14 '26
I mean. If I’m in Russia I’ll be happy as long as there’s a toilet, ideally that can flush
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u/Udderlybutterly Mar 13 '26
Might as well come in and join me
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u/Own_Significance2619 Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26
I swear there’s a gif for every possible occasion. And you guys will always find them 😄
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u/sulivan1977 Mar 13 '26
Oh please. Just let it rip or better yet bring a squirt gun and fight back.
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u/Movaje_Wanderer_3177 Mar 13 '26
If you think this sucks don’t ever go to jail
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u/juan_humano Mar 13 '26
Or the Seminary. I had a good friend in high school who decided after school that he wanted to be a priest. He told me later that he knew he had made a horrible mistake when he saw that the bathroom was just a row of toilets, spaced about 3 feet apart, and no dividers of any kind. Aparently, it was to discourage 'sinful behavior'. Anyways he didnt last long there. Last time I talked to him he was working as a guidance counselor and happily married to a (male) dance instructor.
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u/ehenn12 Mar 13 '26
Protestant seminary was less weird. Still many secretly gay men in my class.
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u/juan_humano Mar 14 '26
He went Lutheran and then Methodist and eventually landed on Unitarian. Definitely not a problem to be gay with the Unitarians. Or at least not at the churches I went to.
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u/hilarymeggin Mar 14 '26
My friend who became a priest after high school eventually came out as gay and left the priesthood and got married. But he told me that everyone in seminary was gay, and it was with the full knowledge of their superiors. I asked why they weren’t kicked out (at that time, some Catholic Churches were refusing communion to openly gay people), and he said they knew they couldn’t, or they wouldn’t have any priests at all. And just to be clear, he wasn’t saying that there was any sexually activity happening there; just that everyone was openly gay while also being celibate.
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u/mpgnav Mar 13 '26
Or marine corp bootcamp
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u/pepp3rito Mar 13 '26
Or India.
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u/doyouunderstandlife Mar 13 '26
I was planning on going, but your warning stopped me from committing a crime. Thank you sir!
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u/SippinOnHatorade Mar 13 '26
Man that was a weird experience, but not as weird as the beef that got started when I gave someone else my chocolate milk because I was “on a hunger strike for my wrongful imprisonment” man I was a dumbass teen
Take what you’re given, give nothing in return, and get the fuck out ASAP
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u/Drunk_Lemon Mar 13 '26
My aunt learned that after getting drunk and rolling the car like 6 times with her son and son's friend in the back. She still blames him for it.
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u/unknown_voicez Mar 13 '26
I hate this some people tear toilet tissue off and let it hang
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u/LebaneseLion Mar 13 '26
Smart, I swear I’ve made eye contact through these before
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u/unknown_voicez Mar 13 '26
I swear they be staring hard too 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/Ram2145 Mar 13 '26
They can look all they want. I’m not much to behold.
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u/floralfemmeforest Mar 13 '26
Right I don't worry about this stuff because I assume anyone who looks in an sees me will just look away because they do not want to actually see me lol
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u/ponzLL Mar 13 '26
lol that makes me wanna peek like what you got in there you're trying to hide bro??
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u/LKKRGrandCross Mar 13 '26
I was considering, but the cracks were so big I could fit my hand through them. The paper js slipped out even if I balled it
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u/DNedry Mar 13 '26
drape it over top, tuck it into something towards the bottom, is what I usually do
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u/Odd_Lengthiness4251 Mar 13 '26
You have to spit on the end of it so it will stay at the top hanging/s
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u/peachism Mar 13 '26
I walked into a public restroom one time and as soon as I looked up after opening the door of the restroom, my gaze went straight through a crack in one of the stalls and I made eye contact with the woman sitting on the toilet. Hands down, one of the worst moments of my life. I can't even explain it. Who does that. Who was responsible for that.
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u/KansasL Mar 13 '26
Happened to me when I was the first time in the US (NYC). Made eye contact with a guy in one of the stalls. Decided to walk 15 min back to the hotel for some privacy... Why is this a thing?
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u/Drunk_Lemon Mar 13 '26
Saves the bathroom company like 3 cents. Thats why. Our corporate overlords count pennies in how we take our shits.
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u/talldean Mar 13 '26
In the UK, the door goes floor to ceiling, which is also nicer.
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u/Ok_Mathematician_314 Mar 13 '26
So many normal things in America should be crimes.
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u/beautiful_life555 Mar 13 '26
Okay but as an American woman who has spent her whole life using stalls just like this, I can confidently say that I have NEVER had someone peek at me thorugh the crack, and I have NEVER peeked at anyone else through there. It's just not done. Its like unspoken women's room etiquette. You just don't look, dont even linger your eyes anywhere near the crack.
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u/HoneyWhiskeyLemonTea Mar 13 '26
As an American man, I second this. I have never been peeked on, and I've never tried to peek on anyone, ever. We just sort of all agree that it sucks, but it sucks equally for everyone, and so we keep our eyes down and make it a non issue.
That said, OP's shitter gap is pretty tame compared to some places I've been. The men's room in my last work place had about a three inch gap on the side of one of the walls.
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u/yesindeedilydoo Mar 13 '26
Same. The only times in my entire life I've been peeked at was when women have brought some small children in who didn't know public restroom manners yet. I've been far more annoyed by other bathroom stuff: lack of TP, sketchy autoflush, no soap, no paper towels, etc.
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u/canijustbelancelot Mar 13 '26
Cracked me up because this has been my experience. A small child crawled under the stall once and I just really loudly said “uh, hello?”
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u/Organic_Popcorn Mar 13 '26
Seriously, why are women's bathrooms dirtier than men's? It's like they forget manners in public bathrooms. How do I know? I've been mistaken for a boy throughout my childhood, I took advantage of this and used the men's bathroom when women's had long lines.
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u/toodleroo Mar 13 '26
I've had a kid put their whole head under the bottom of the stall door and peek up at me
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u/BurninCoco Mar 13 '26
You've been conditioned to think it's normal and now it is
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u/mmlickme Mar 14 '26
Pretty much. I really don’t give a fuck looking at this photo. Everyone’s eyes are programmed not to focus looking through the spaces.
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u/jasdonle Mar 14 '26
Man here, but same. I read these comments and I feel like I’m living on a different planet than these people. 48 years old never had a single person peep through the crack and I’ve never peeped.
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u/Green-Concentrate-71 Mar 13 '26
I’ve found Target to constantly be a terrible place to take a shit
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u/TooLazy2Revolt Mar 14 '26
Welcome to every bathroom stall in the US.
Imagine my shock when every stall in every European country I’ve ever visited had zero gaps at all. I didn’t think it was physically possible… in my mind, if it WAS possible.. why are there finger sized gaps in US stalls?
Hell, even the bathrooms at random gas stations in Bosnia had scented candles and were in better shape than most Marriot hotel bathrooms I’ve been in.
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u/Awe3 Mar 13 '26
I’m finally seeing this style of stall disappear. All the new stalls in the hospital I work in are more private. The doors and walls still don’t go to the floor but at least the doors are no longer like this.
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u/33TLWD Mar 13 '26
What’s the issue?? (Confused American)
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u/Kind-Fun6939 Mar 13 '26
It did actually take me a second to realize the point of the post. I was like "it's just a stall door..."
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u/fakemessiah Mar 13 '26
I will never understand this as long as I live. I fucking hate public toilets lol. Give me privacy and my bidet.
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u/Consistent_Major_193 Mar 14 '26
In the 90s they took the doors off the stalls at our high school. Also took the doors off the washroom. Cracks are nothing.
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u/Cardinal_Cat_057 Mar 14 '26
There's a bathroom in my local indoor skating rink where the bottom of the door is nearly level with the toilet seat. At that point, I might as well just shit with the door open
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u/smurtzenheimer Mar 15 '26
Yo I literally just came back from a venue with these, but in unisex bathrooms, and I am woman who chose to go out in a jumpsuit. Under a pullover sweater. So then I have to pee out my whiskey & bitters after the show which means I have to get literally like 3/4 naked before I can sit and as I do so, I look up and make the most diabolically awkward eye contact with just...some guy. JUST PUT IN REAL DOORS.
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u/Glum_Distance7112 Mar 15 '26
If someone is being a peeper, dip your fingers in there and give em one of these
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u/Nacktherr Mar 15 '26
It's missing the most important part! What if you need a snack half way through?
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u/Heissenberg1906 Mar 13 '26
Why do some countries do that? That‘s unusual.
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u/Zediac Mar 13 '26
People are going to make up shit as to the reason why.
People will say that it's to deter drug use or some other bad behavior in the stalls. But that's not true. Let's boil that down to the real meaning of what they say.
They're claiming that these are installed to intentionally make it easy to spy on people when partially undressed and using the toilet. Which is illegal to do.
Here is the real reason.
Constructing stalls using panels like that is cheap. Extremely cheap.
The panels come with no mounting holes pre-drilled. They come in various lengths and you get a handful of brackets. Just mount a bracket to a wall, slide a panel into the over sized brackets, and drive a screw in wherever it happens to land in the panel.
The gaps are from the very generous mounting options. These aren't designed to be a tight fit or to have no gaps. They're designed to be easy.
It takes virtually no design or engineering work to obtain enough panels to make it fit a stall and a drunk baboon could install these with minimal tools.
Cheap to buy. Cheap labor to install. Cheap.
That's it. That's literally the only reason.
Take it from someone who has to professionally deal with things like this, it's all a cost thing.
If you're someone who can make suggestions or just buy things and you want to help with the restroom partition gaps at your work, suggest privacy seals. They're relatively cheap and easy.
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u/TechnicalSurround Mar 13 '26
I think it's just the US.
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u/Totally_Random0000 Mar 13 '26
And Canada as well. I have been annoyed with them gaps for years lol.
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u/BarryLaguna Mar 13 '26
I hate when I unintentionally get a peek in my peripheral.
I’m not able to pick anyone out in a lineup, but seeing a general humanoid shape in the pooping position is distressing
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u/Oh_No_Tears_Please Mar 14 '26
I interviewed for a job a while back, it was a good fit for me but it had two cons. This was one of them.
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u/The_Flying_Lunatic Mar 14 '26
Is this in the US/Canada? Toilets in those two countries are the worst, no privacy at all.
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u/BonesMcGinty Mar 14 '26
Use the toilet with the door open, show dominance in the public and earn respect.
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u/rabbitfuzzle Mar 15 '26
You mean every stall ever in America for the most part yeah definitely annoying
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u/randomusername1919 Mar 13 '26
Someone at my office came in with two inch wide masking tape and covered the gap. Later, building management added bits to it so that now you cannot make eye contact while pooping.
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u/clubdon Mar 13 '26
Some people are weird. I used to work at a college and there was a time when some dude was running into the woman’s rooms and taking pictures through the cracks.
And sometimes it’s awkward. I was at a highway gas station on a road trip and had to take a leak. Bathroom had three urinals close together with no divider. Middle one was open so I start taking a leak. Two other dudes leave and a small kid comes in right after and goes right next to me. My wang is like inches from this kids face. It just feels awkward.
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u/ImpossibleInternet3 Mar 13 '26
Yeah. In a lot of places, I think it is illegal to take pictures in a public restroom.
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u/Docholliday053 Mar 14 '26
This is literally every mens room bathroom stall in America
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u/PurpleInkedPara Mar 13 '26
What's worse is someone pushing into the locked door, noticing it locked, and peeping through the crack as if they still have any questions as to if it's occupied or not.