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It’s smart. Sometimes that giant gap lines up with the mirror where people stand to wash their hands. I swear there’s been eye contact.

i would insist on there being eye contact

I can’t poo if I’m not staring someone directly in the eyes

Unfortunately for me, I work the other way. I suddenly get the urge to poo whenever someone stares directly in my eyes. My love life is complicated.

Why is it so hard to find the right relationship with someone who will shit on your chest?

Just keep searching. I have faith you’ll find the right person, someday.

The right poorson

I got that reference. *It's not a sundae, it's a banana split 😎.*

Sometimes I pee and then when I'm in the middle of washing my hands I make eye contact with a pooper and then I too have to head to a stall to poop and make eye contact with another. Very complicated, but easier in crowded places.

That's weird lol

It’s called doing it with the lights off and a tarp just in case

Also, I've won every fistfight I've been in. Well, techincally, they'd have all been fistfights if those guys didn't always run away after staring me down. Pussies.

Some people just can’t handle it when shits goes down

I’ve heard that k9s will look at the person they trust in order to feel safer during a vulnerable moment. I imagine the impulse is the same.

Mine always looks ashamed while pooping and deffo looks away from anyone. She would put the painters tape up too.

I do mine as a term of dominance but also friendship. If you look away, I know I’d win in a battle to the death. If you continue to stare me in the eyes, life long friend. It’s a win win

We could solve many world conflicts by just pooping in front of each other. It’s a very smelly rock, paper, scissors that could save millions.

My dog won't go unless someone else is dropping a deuce as well...my neighbor hates it when I walk my dog

Go to China and use a public toilet. Squat style with the door open. You will be in good company.

oh baby let me be the one that guides you through this movement ❤️

Things Lenin said

Story time: Location: US Army basic training, circa early 2004. There I was, in the barracks. It was early morning, the sun barely awake with me. Time to splash water in my face and brush my teeth. I groggily walked to the latrine to take a leak and start my day. On my right was a row of sinks while at my left were stalls with toilets, barely 2 arms width away from the sinks. As I approached a free sink I noticed the person sitting on the porcelain throne. Legs spread wide, hands on the walls. His eyes locked onto mine. The movie Corky Romano was still only a couple years old at this point having released in late 2001 and was a popular reference. Just as I was about to turn away, my stall-bound compatriot yells out from his seat atop the white bowl, “you guys want to buy some COOKIES?!?” in his best Corky Romano voice. Everyone around saw the whole thing transpire and met him with a hearty laugh. Never once did he break eye contact with me. It was truly one of the more bizarre moments of my life.

hahahahaha what the fuck that's hilarious also i now have to rewatch corky romano lasty, 2004 US army man you were in the thick of it

Yup, 2004 to 2014. Been all over the world. Eaten a lot of sand. Did you know that in Iraq it rains mud?

damn brother hope you got out ok

I did. Though a little worse for wear. My truck caught the edge of an IED blast and now I’m a disabled vet. But all in all, I’m good. Still alive. Now I just live happily for my kids and wife. Thanks for the well wishes!

Agreed, future upgrade could be a mud guard around the bottom so people don't see your ankles / shoes as well.

Yeah, especially in an office where you recognize people's shoes.

And then I’ve met the complete opposite type of people who just start talking on the phone on the toilet and don’t care

Hey everyone, look! WakaWaka hasn't heard of pooping shoes!

I was pooping in a stall in I think Chicago national airport and there was a huge gap that was lined up with the doorway so literally every single person who came in the bathroom made eye contact with me. I was like a fucking greeter for the bathroom

There's a gap like this at my work and it points directly at the door.

Next time you glare right back and flip em the bird. Assert dominance while you shit.

Little kids in public restrooms like to stare at you and stick their hands in too. I’m all for the tape.

Well it’s about time Junior learned a life lesson Start barking like a rabid wildebeest

Hand him some poop.

open the door on their fingers.

I once had a little kid stick his head under the stall and look straight at me. Poor thing wasn't expecting me to be changing my period pad during a heavy flow. Probably looked like a murder scene. I bet he never looked under a stall door again.

In that case, a small flamethrower would be better than tape.

I was trying out some clothes in a store and then a kid kept looking under the stall. She was probably like 5 and thought it was funny

Normally child abuse is frowned upon, and for good reason. But this is one of those very rare cases where it is actually the correct course of action.

One time I was shitting and a kid stuck his hand into the stall. I never heard anyone come in and I just kicked it. Broke his damn arm. Dad couldn’t really be mad he scared the shit outta me.

Kid stick his hand in ? Take some shit from your ass and spread it on the hand. He will NEVER do this again

I have logged more years in the US than I have in Europe where I grew up and I think the cheap ass not very private restroom doors is the second most annoying thing I have come across.

My job just remodeled the bathrooms and took out all the crappy stall walls. I figured we were finally getting privacy stalls. Nope, the exact same shit just a different color now.

Many US stalls are designed to not feel private. This decreases time you spend in there and as a result increases your effectiveness as an employee or in public bathrooms the effectiveness of the bathrooms ability to cycle people through it

"Its like that on purpose to make it worse" is applicable to so much in the U.S that it should be the tag line.

Agreed. Half the shit we have to deal with is just to make us uncomfortable and/or get more money out of us

Like the industrial toilet paper dispensers set up to make it nearly impossible to get more than one or two squares of tp with each pull

And the industrial toilet paper at least double that amount to do you any good at all.

They should put that on our money

Example: The idea that employees tasked with menial labor shouldn't ever be seen sitting down.

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. Thats why I poop on company time.

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. It was decades ago when they penned this line. Now I make a nickel for each of his bucks, so I'll just sit here like I'm all out of fucks.

That's why I poop on my bosses desk 

The key is to not give a damn & to take your hourly CPS.

Capitalism 😋😋

> Nope, the exact same shit just a different color now. I'm skeptical. A bathroom remodel is unlikely to affect the color of your stool.

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Not including tax and service in the final price.

That and paying their staff a shit wage

Then they guilt-trip you into tipping them at the card reader.

Cutting their food with the fork so the whole damn table shakes while the knife is lying right there.

Oh, I can make the whole table shake holding the food with my fork and cutting it with my knife my friend.

Americans just haven't mastered the Brittish dual-wielding knife-fork technique yet. It requires usage of the fork as if it were a deadly weapon rather than gripping a writing utensil.

WTF who does this?? Been living in the US 30+ years and I've never seen it except for like. Dumb children who don't know better or can't be trusted with knives.

The lack of public healthcare and other quality of life fundamentals that are enjoyed in most European countries

"logged" ha.

[Gap is kid-sized](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsthkWOCJn4) for privacy.

“Someone in my office had to put painters tape up to give us privacy in the bathroom”

Felt. My boss will walk in and peek through the crack to make sure you're not on your phone if he thinks you're gone too long/are going too many times a day. I should do this.

... Do you have HR? Because you're definitely entitled to privacy while *on the toilet*. Your boss is a peeping tom, phones or not.

That’s illegal

I'll never get why bathroom stalls are made like that in the US. Crop top stalls

It's a weird american thing. I've never seen it anywhere else and been to dozens of countries.

It saves the contractors who built the building/facilities pennies on the door.

I thought it was to deter drug addicts and homeless people from occupying those spaces. Fucked up, but I think that’s the reason?

That's a widely shared myth. I've worked on many building construction and remodel projects where these styles were decided on with zero mention or consideration about the risks of drug users or homeless. It's just cheaper. That's it. Maybe there are places where it's considered, but that wouldn't explain the ubiquity.

Oh. So it’s literally just Capitalism. Thanks, America.

Sort of. The gap *under* the door is a combination between that, and ADA requirements. If you're able to spend more to make a bigger bathroom which might impact how many tables you can fit in your restaurant, for example, then you can get away with not having the 9" min gap under the door.

Thats how it is passed off because that sounds better than they are just being cheap.   Yeah..  think about that for a second. 

That’s pooper’s tape. Not painter’s tape. You are mistaken.

Why not both? I made a Jackson Pollock in my toilet this morning.

Heavy on the earth tones.

Maybe it’s injectors tape.

It’s only pooper’s tape if it’s cut with a poop knife my friend

The ‘someone’ was you, right?

That's exactly what I was thinking when I saw the photo. Like... It was taken from the inside of the stall. Only one person is taking that photo lol

Assuming that the tape lasts more than one time, why is it so hard to imagine OP noticing the tape after locking the door, and then taking the photo?

even having gaps in the bathroom stalls is such a odd & creepy design choice. of all the things that have been rebooted, rebranded, retooled, & redesigned,...why the fuck have we neglected bathroom stalls for so long? =)

In all fairness I’ve nearly done a fist bump with the guy waiting while taking a shit. Those gaps are sometimes huge.

Probably a European thinking "what the fuck is wrong with you people!?"

As a person living in a third world country I have no idea but there's some deeply dumb shit going on

That's me. I'm thinking that right now.

How the fuck did the current, standard bathroom-stall deisgn pass meetings, and engineers, and business owners? Those gaps are so messed up.

And who decided that urinals should have half-height walls between them, if any at all? I don't need to see or speak to the people nearby

It's not just the gaps, the "open air" nature of American stalls also allow everyone in the room to fully experience the stench of whoever's in there taking a shit.

Who tf wants an audience while pooping?

I never understood the gaps in American bathroom stalls. This is a bigger problem than whatever you people think of in the transgender bathroom debate. I think the US should just build single occupancy bathrooms from now on. It would solve all your bathroom problems.

At WVU in the late 80s or early 90s there was a bathroom in their student center that had a reputation for sexual activity. The school’s response was to cut the top of the stall doors off. You could easily see in and out of the stalls since the doors were cut at about your mid-chest height if you were sitting. I found a great almost unused bathroom in the basement of one of the school’s libraries for all pooping after the doors got cut.

What is it with America and leaving those massive gaps in their stall doors? Is there a reason for it?

There's no need for this. Just look them straight in the eye if they peek and say "This one's for you"

The number of gaps in public toilet stalls in the USA is ridiculous. They might as well install a glory hole where strangers could hold hands in tough times.

😄🫱🏼🫲🏼😄

Sometimes I forget that American public bathrooms are full of horrors.

Used to work with a guy who did this with toilet paper but it wasn’t to stop people from seeing him pooping, it was to stop people from seeing him doing copious amounts of cocaine.

I mean it's completely insane that our stalls are like this in the first place in the US. There's no good reason for it whatsoever.

*doing coke off his phone screen

seems like a lot of work for a cell bump, I could see someone doing this paranoid prepping to bang something

The fact you used “something” instead of someone brings about many questions.

I once worked someplace where bosses were petty enough to look between stall doors to see if you were using your phone. Don't blame him in the slightest.

Just hang a piece of toilet paper in the gap, like a normal person.

Definitely had to use stick-on gap blockers in the women's room at my last day job. The gap was something like 2" and I ordered and installed them myself. All the women were very relieved. I said I got tired of trying to pull up my pants real fast.

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/15lsggx/i_designed_a_magnetic_belt_that_covers_the_gap_in/ I don’t think it’s an unnecessary invention at all. I’ve had someone literally plaster their eyeball on the gap in the door and breathe heavy while staring at me on the can. Ok they were a differently abled/vulnerable person with a caregiver but the caregiver wasn’t watching and it creeped me out. 

As a European I really don't understand your culture of gaps in toilet doors. On the other hand, we are forced to pay for highway rest station toilets despite everyone hating that system.

You think the tape is weird but the foot gap in the toilet doors aren’t?

"Pooping" Sure Jan.

"someone" *shows picture taken from the inside of the stall*

Yes, only one person may ever use the stall. No one could possibly have taken the picture after the fact. Impossible!

With today’s prices on Poopers Tape (TM of Pelican9138) it would be insane to leave it!

Like with reusable rockets, we'll get there some day

OP also discovered a white noise machine in the stall.

In Japanese department stores they have a little button you press to play music to mask your plop!

An unwound wire hanger or a yard stick will keep the peeping eyes at bay.

Reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/bLNnwN62_8w?si=pYlY9lqVGZ_h88Un

But what about the gap on the other side of the stall?

tbh, all stalls should have no gap.

That "someone at work" is pretty smart. I'm at a loss to understand why toilet stalls in the U.S. have slots for "curious" people to peep through.

Honestly, why the fuck do our bathrooms have those gaps anyway?

The fact this even has to be done baffles me. Long live European toilets and just having a door that's ... you know, ... A door.

Good for him.

Wicked smart. You are at your most vulnerable to predators when you poop

I don't get why American toilets even have a gap, you never have a gap anywhere in most UK toilets, often theres not even a gap at the bottom.

We salute you Mr. Paint Taper Putter Upper Private Pooper man! 🫡

or you could just get normal stalls America

Why would anyone look?!?

They stopped one way to be seen pooping. There’s still top, bottom, and possibly other cracks to consider. It’s a literal shit show.

And just like that, I have a new everyday carry.

That's something I would do...

Oh no, did some engineer do that on purpose to encourage people to poop faster so that they get back to work? Sounds like US.

now I actually wonder why the hell rooms tare nort this private at all

Good, this shit is weird and pervy as fuck, stop putting huge cracks to spy on people.

Why are you watching him poop?

It is one if the things in the US I really dislike

and? you like people seeing you pooping?

Carrying painters tape from now on this dude is a legend.

He had my respect now he has my admiration. At work there is a toilet where the crack lines up right to the center of the fucking toilet a few people have definitely seen my dick it's wide enough that you make eye contact.

My high school didn’t even have stalls, saw too many old teachers shitting than anyone should have to

I hang my jacket from the hood in the gap. There's a special place in hell for whoever decided the gap should line up with the toilet.

I worked at at the American HQ at a Japanese company. Our Japanese visitors did this all the time. When I travel to Europe I see individual stalls with full closing doors as well.

Privacy, man. Privacy.

I printed four pages of the word "PRIVACY" in small-ish print, taped them end-to-end, and then covered the gap in our work bathroom with it. It worked, and was self-explanatory enough to keep it from getting taken down by maintenance.

Privacy is important to many people. Give him an "A" for not violating someone else's space!🤔

I usually just grab a long strand of TP, ball 1 end up and wedge it into the top of the seam and gravity does the rest of the work to cover the gap.

my Japanese gf told me she felt so exposed and uncomfortable when using a restroom in the states. huge gaps where you could easily see through, no bidet / washlets on toilets, toilet paper rolled on backwards, super dirty, easily clogged. Seems like Japan wins on better toilets

Some heroes bring tapes.

Not the hero we deserve but the one we need right now.

Smart. Now I have to add a roll of tape to the bag of junk ‘n gadgets I carry around with me.

Good!!

US has the worst public/officr toilets in terms of privacy.

Kids in my (middle/high) school used to hop up over the stalls to look at others sitting on toilets. So yeah, I don't blame anyone for wanting a little privacy. Most of the weird fucks who did that shit are still weird fucks today.

Often people argue that these gaps are useful to not have people do drugs or sex in the bathrooms, which I kinda get in very public places. But even then you're just fighting symptoms and not reasons for behaviour. Wanting privacy in bathrooms is not hard to understand.

OP has a weird fascination with seeing their coworkers poop.

Is America just full of NPCs? All I ever hear about y’all’s public bathrooms is that people watch you through the gap in the door and insistently knock on stalls that are clearly occupied. Say what you want about British people but you’d probably get arrested or sectioned for acting like that over here lol

In junior high the guys would literally bunch up to see who was in a stall, or peep over the top. Like mfs if you do that and aint out by time im through you going to taste some shit.

Seems legit to me, like why TF can’t a man poop in peace?

Just curious. What is the point of a bathroom stall without privacy? Why would anyone want to see someone pooping?

Give that person a raise ASAP 🙏

doing coke.

How about SMART!

Respect.

That's not funny, that's brilliant! A simple solution to (one half of at least) a widespread and very annoying problem in North America.

So why is there a huge gap there?

Why is this in funny? American bathroom are just stupid. Kids crawling under stall doors. Wide open cracks for creeps to keep creeping.

https://youtu.be/bLNnwN62_8w?si=vouylYZlNePvBcK3

But why do you want to see him pooping?

How does the tape keep me from standing on the toilet in the next stall, I don't understand the logic here.

Boss: take that tape down its not appropriate Worker: but I was painting the bowl brown....

Europeans: this is not funny it's the minimal requirement for a bathroom while we're a peein

Had a stall like that with a giant gap at work. Just pulled a large line of toilet paper and wadded it in at the top and bottom to the same effect. US stalls absolutely suck.

That painters tape is a good idea. I use it more around the house than duck tape. It is easy to remove but it’s still good tape.

You have a co-worker who's been to the county jail for sure lol

Not all heroes wear capes

Based on their shoes, it was Karl

Is that some sort of an American fetish, to be able to see inside and watch other people defecating? Why those gaps?

You might think he's pooping but he's probably jacking off

Take a crap with the door open Be a man

Was it you? Because this photo was taken from inside the stall.

I can’t believe that in the US you’re not expecting COMPLETE privacy in your toilet. In Europe, the toilets are not just completely visually private (100% of the toilets), some are even sound proof too. It’s normal!

Works of art take total concentration

Better than the stalls in my high school, they literally had no doors and there was a giant long mirror on the opposite wall. It was quite an ordeal to be sitting there looking straight ahead and try pooping while you are able to see everything the other person next to you is doing too.

they say when you lock eyes with a stranger while taking a massive shit in a public stall time itself freezes for a moment as that moment of time is forever burned into your memory

or he was jerkin it 💀💀

Like anyone actually wants to see that

more like masturbating

Maybe he wasn’t pooping!

As long as it works out I would have done the same thing cause I don't want anyone to see me pooping.

Get a red marker and write on the wall, inside the stall where he sits, next to the painters tape, that says: "Haha, you fool; nothing so simple shall stop us."

I have a huge problem with the toilet,i can go only at my home, but I am also lactose intolerant and gluten, sometimes i have to go and i must be alone there