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For what it's worth regardless of how it started, it's now enforced by ADA as an accessibility compliance issue, so that a wheelchair users feet can get under the stall door so they can get close enough to reach the latch. Seems like a stretch to me but I'm not a wheelchair user
Sure that explains the bottom gap, but the side gaps are the issue. I've never made eye contact with a grown man that's crawled under my stall. I have made eye contact with someone walking by the stall door through the door crack.
Oh god, for some reason I just pictured this but in the style of the artwork of Junji Ito. Nightmare fuel.
Yeah that's a really good point, one of the bathrooms at my work is particularly egregious and I'm about to buy and install a privacy thing to cover the gap at this point, there's a legit 2" gap between the wall and the stall, and it's right by the door to the bathroom so it's inevitable that you'll make eye contact with someone as they're walking out, so that stall never gets used and instead the wheelchair accessible stall next to it is always used
If there's a coat hanger on the inside of the door, sometimes hanging a big coat (or something else) can cover the gaps. I've done it unintentionally.
I'm not sure what kinda gymnastics the wheelchair user's got to be doing to get on the shitter once they've rolled themselves into a stall backwards... Or why it's only after a shit that they can't use doors
I think ADA also requires handicapped stalls to be larger so they don't have to do this.
Some stalls are tiny, and in old construction there's not a lot you can do with out major renovations. I'm sure the extra leg room is appreciated by taller folks, or if you can't really bend your lower legs in towards you.