Is using a disabled toilet wrong.
Poll: Is using a disabled toilet wrong.
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So I work in a drawing office and share a building with a few other companies, the toilets being one.
When I started you'd go for your morning dump and be met with a foul stench, squelch noises and people physically forcing one out. Honestly it was like being sat next to Serena Williams.
After a while I discovered the disabled one. Always plenty of loo roll, enough room to swing a cat, quiet, and even a shower.
So I take solace in here, this is in fact where I am writing to you at the moment. Never once have I came out to find a chap with a disability waiting. I guess they s
te at home. But am I morally wrong?
When I started you'd go for your morning dump and be met with a foul stench, squelch noises and people physically forcing one out. Honestly it was like being sat next to Serena Williams.
After a while I discovered the disabled one. Always plenty of loo roll, enough room to swing a cat, quiet, and even a shower.
So I take solace in here, this is in fact where I am writing to you at the moment. Never once have I came out to find a chap with a disability waiting. I guess they s
te at home. But am I morally wrong? sc0tt said:
Busting for a st in the airport lounge in gatwick I go to the gents to find both in use.
I leave and find the disabled empty, mid st the handle starts going.
I finish up, exit stage right to be greeted by a rather unpleasant lady on crutches.
Called me a a few times.
Similar situation & have pointed out quite loudly to said oaf that the facilities are not just for those with crutches but for other disabilities which require space & surfaces and may not be visible. "Would you like to see a catheter used!"t in the airport lounge in gatwick I go to the gents to find both in use.I leave and find the disabled empty, mid s
t the handle starts going.I finish up, exit stage right to be greeted by a rather unpleasant lady on crutches.
Called me a
a few times.Tends to shame them if people round
Yep I use them when I see them free.
Have had abuse in the past as I sometimes limp and have on occasion been accused of faking injury... Some fat chick (disability was obesity) gave it both barrels as she thought I was an inconsiderate st for using the disabled when someone like her needs to use it...
My OH scarppered as I explained I could use the disabled toilets as the fact I have had my ankle rebuilt with metal makes me technically disabled and hence my limp (showed fatty the two 8 inch scars on my ankle) and sometimes normal cubical sate difficult to move in... where as just being a pig is not a real disability and she should start putting the chocolate down and maybe think about finding out what a gym looked like rather than Pizza Hut.
Silence was golden... OH didn't talk to me for the rest of the day for being fattest or whatever the word is that means I hate fat people...
Have had abuse in the past as I sometimes limp and have on occasion been accused of faking injury... Some fat chick (disability was obesity) gave it both barrels as she thought I was an inconsiderate s
t for using the disabled when someone like her needs to use it... My OH scarppered as I explained I could use the disabled toilets as the fact I have had my ankle rebuilt with metal makes me technically disabled and hence my limp (showed fatty the two 8 inch scars on my ankle) and sometimes normal cubical sate difficult to move in... where as just being a pig is not a real disability and she should start putting the chocolate down and maybe think about finding out what a gym looked like rather than Pizza Hut.
Silence was golden... OH didn't talk to me for the rest of the day for being fattest or whatever the word is that means I hate fat people...
"If your disabled...." ?
Dear oh dear.
As ever, the survey doesn't provide all the permutations. I WILL use a disabled toilet but only in very limited circumstances -
a) I'm absolutely desperate
b) the "normal" loos are occupied/there's a long queue
c) there are no obvious disabled people around - although that is hard to ascertain a lot of the time
d) I don't intend to spend a long time in the loo (less than a couple of minutes)
If I end up using a disabled loo, I'm always careful not to pull that red chord in error
Dear oh dear.
As ever, the survey doesn't provide all the permutations. I WILL use a disabled toilet but only in very limited circumstances -
a) I'm absolutely desperate
b) the "normal" loos are occupied/there's a long queue
c) there are no obvious disabled people around - although that is hard to ascertain a lot of the time
d) I don't intend to spend a long time in the loo (less than a couple of minutes)
If I end up using a disabled loo, I'm always careful not to pull that red chord in error
HarryFlatters said:
Ki3r said:
It's a toilet that is easier to use if you are disabled, not just for people who are disabled.
This.They're disabled accessible, not disabled only.
t with an armrest.Eric Mc said:
If I end up using a disabled loo, I'm always careful not to pull that red chord in error
Be careful out there ..... 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW2esYwKxiU
If all other toilets are being used and I'm desperate, the disabled toilet/s will be visited. If I'm not desperate, I'll wait.
I do agree with the idea though that disabled toilets are designed to be more accommodating than normal toilets for disabled people and are not meant for the use of only disabled people - hence the increase in the number of signs I'm seeing on the doors which show a wheelchair sign as well as a lady and a man sign.
I do agree with the idea though that disabled toilets are designed to be more accommodating than normal toilets for disabled people and are not meant for the use of only disabled people - hence the increase in the number of signs I'm seeing on the doors which show a wheelchair sign as well as a lady and a man sign.
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