Imponderables: Mmm, you know you want it. BACON!!!
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Originally posted by RugBug:
Navy - you're Scottish, right? Have you heard of Frightened Rabbit?
I had to google it, I've never heard them though.
As for the driving, I think everyone has a little road rage in them. You've got to complain about the other drivers, it's a rule. And I'll confess, than if there is only a disabled cubicle available when I enter a bathroom, I'll take it. Some times folks with functioning legs gotta wait to pee too. It's not the end of the world.
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My biggest pet peeve is the handicap button that automatically opens doors. I *always* see people (mostly college age kids) with completely empty hands and two perfectly working legs slap the button and walk through because they're too damn lazy to grab the handle and open the door themselves. I'm sorry, is the door too heavy for you? Do you need mommy to help?
Yeah that one's annoying. The other one I'm annoyed by is perfectly capable people using the handicap stalls in the restroom. At work I know we have some handicap people in our building and people have meetings on all different floors. So, it's not like there's no chance someone who's handicap is going to need it. I really wonder how the stare down goes if the handicap person has to wait and a person just comes walking out. Must be brutal.
Heh...I use the handicap stall all time. All.The.Time. If we didn't here at work, we'd have three stalls for 80 people. I'd also probably be stepping in the toilet when I changed at work each afternoon to go out to the barn. Our regular stalls are tiny. My take on the situation is that the stall doesn't have to be immediately available if a handicapped person comes into the bathroom. They can wait a minute and when the person occupying the stall comes out...the handicapped person goes in immediately...line or no line. No harm, no foul, IMO.
I also don't have a ton of a problem with the door openers being used by non-handicap people. I think it's lazy and a waste of time (those things tend to open the door very slowly) for the able-bodied, but it doesn't bother me that they use it.
Parking spaces are a different matter ENTIRELY, however.
Navy - I was at home last night and I had this moment of "D'uh! I already asked him that." Old age sure is rough.
As for driving: I wouldn't say I have road rage, as in I don't act on anything...but I will tell someone off a bit in the confines of my car. I might even flip someone off, which has unfortunately sparked others to enact their rage on me. I had one car just stop in front of me. On a VERY busy street. They just sat there "teaching me a lesson." I so wish a cop had been close. They had massively cut me off, I flipped 'em off and then they stopped...for like a minute. It was a total temper tantrum. Thankfully I can usually tell the psychos that are going to do something ridiculous like get in front of me and slam on their brakes...and I never have the urge to challenge them at that point. I just back off and let them pitch their hissy fit with a ton of steel to back them up. Nimrods.
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Originally posted by RugBug:
Navy - you're Scottish, right? Have you heard of Frightened Rabbit?
I had to google it, I've never heard them though.
As for the driving, I think everyone has a little road rage in them. You've got to complain about the other drivers, it's a rule. And I'll confess, than if there is only a disabled cubicle available when I enter a bathroom, I'll take it. Some times folks with functioning legs gotta wait to pee too. It's not the end of the world.
oh yeah if the other stalls were occupied that's fine. I might have seen a situation like that about twice in the 6 and a half years I've worked here.
What I'm talking about is all the stalls are open and the person uses the handicap one. I can't decide if they just like the extra space or if they're germophobes who think it gets less use and is therefore cleaner or what they're thinking.
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oh yeah if the other stalls were occupied that's fine. I might have seen a situation like that about twice in the 6 and a half years I've worked here.
What I'm talking about is all the stalls are open and the person uses the handicap one. I can't decide if they just like the extra space or if they're germophobes who think it gets less use and is therefore cleaner or what they're thinking.
I use it even if the other stalls are open. A handicapped person can wait one minute for a stall just like anyone else. If there was a handicapped person there before me, I would never go in before them. But if I was there first, with no handicapped person in sight and the stall was open...despite there being other stalls open...I just might use the handicapped stall
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I don't act on my road rage, thats just crazy talk. I like to be alive.
I've used the handicapped doors too, that's when my friend yells "its for the PHYSICALLY disabled, not the mentally disabled!!" Fun times...
The bathroom thing doesn't bother me either, I'm with you rugbug, I just use whatever is open, if its a handicapped one, so be it.
I have issues with public bathrooms on the whole anyways. I tend to put it off if I can until I get home. Anyone else have those weird ocd tendencies towards public facilities? Like even though I don't like to use them, I'm not one of those people that opens the door with the paper towel.. I think thats odd.
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Haha I totally open the door with the paper towel. I've seen way way way too many guys walk right out without washing their hands. So disgusting.
Edit: Just think about that thought the next time you want a guy to put his hand on the small of your back, Rugbug. 
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WOW how did we get from first dates to handicapped stalls?? and is there a connection?
I agree as long as there isn't a handicapped person waiting before you, using that stall is no biggie. See in the mens room you have twice as many bathrooms because you have the urinals....so basically unless they make twices as many womens bathrooms as men, it's inherently a much longer wait for the women's bathroom... hence the frequent use of the handicapped stall that might not be in as much use in the men's room
Also, when changing clothes in the bathroom it's a much better space...
Hey there's a question ...I know lots of women who bringa change of clothes to work for a variety of reasons...is the same true of men??
ok Zeek I hear that.. I wish there was some sort of warning flasher light that would go off if people tried to do that. I mean come on we all learned to do that in pre-school
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WOW how did we get from first dates to handicapped stalls?? and is there a connection?
I agree as long as there isn't a handicapped person waiting before you, using that stall is no biggie. See in the mens room you have twice as many bathrooms because you have the urinals....so basically unless they make twices as many womens bathrooms as men, it's inherently a much longer wait for the women's bathroom... hence the frequent use of the handicapped stall that might not be in as much use in the men's room
Also, when changing clothes in the bathroom it's a much better space...
Hey there's a question ...I know lots of women who bringa change of clothes to work for a variety of reasons...is the same true of men??
I still don't understand. Isn't this the whole manners thing? You have a choice between a regular stall and a handicap stall and you pick the handicap? You're basically saying that a handicap person now potentially has to wait for no reason. That seems like it could go in the dictionary under rude.
I've brought a change of clothes to work on extremely rare occasions. I would not want to change in the bathroom on a regular basis. It may be that women are cleanlier than men, but the guy's bathroom tends to be disgusting. You don't want to set clothes down on ANY surface. So, unless you can juggle and change at the same time it's probably a bad idea.
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I still don't understand. Isn't this the whole manners thing? You have a choice between a regular stall and a handicap stall and you pick the handicap? You're basically saying that a handicap person now potentially has to wait for no reason. That seems like it could go in the dictionary under rude.
I'm only saying that a handicap person may not be able to go directly into a stall when they first arrive, but they will be the next one for that stall. It's not like a stall is occupied for hours on end. Unless someone lacks fiber in their diet, a stall is occupied for two minutes (long)or so. That's not a ridiculous amount of time to wait....for anyone. They aren't waiting for no reason, they are waiting like most other people wait at some point or another...and actually waiting less time because they automatically go to the head of the line (rightly so).
'Course i'm also of the opinion that if all stalls were handicap accessible, then everyone waits the same, even if there were 20 people in line. We send handicapped people to the front fo the line because there is usually only one stall that they can use, whereas non-handicapped have a lot more options. Being handicapped doesn't make you unable to wait at all nor does it make you incontinent (if it does, you usually aren't using a stall anyway but rather have that equipment already attached.) It just narrows your options...and therefore accomodations are appropriate.
Basically, the handicapped stall doesn't have to be taken out of rotation just because at some point a handicapped person might be there to use it. As long as they are the next one it...no matter if there is a line or not, no harm, no foul. ;)
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This reminded me of a time I was at a themepark and waiting to get on a rollercoaster. There was a dude in a wheelchair with his family or friends and one of the staff came up to him to get him to the front of the line, but the guy told them he'd wait. Said it's not so bad, everyone else has to stand around, but he has a seat. It amused me, but I'd have skipped the line, waiting for rides sucks.
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