Disabled toilets

[Moodyman]

Do you use them?

I do, even though I'm able bodied. They tend to be cleaner than normal toilets and have more elbow room. But yesterday, at work, I had a wheelchair user knocking on the door impatiently.

I apologised and felt slightly embarrassed, but later I thought why. Sure, disabled toilets are designed to take into account the needs of disabled people but they're not exclusively for their use.

Ps - what's with the small sink and the sequential mixer taps. How do these benefit a disabled person?

 

[EltonFrog]

I use them a lot, I often have to get changed when I'm out and about and they have more room and privacy. I've never had anyone knocking on the door though, and anyway if someone did they'd have to wait. They don't know I'm able bodied unless they can see through doors

 

[threebikesmcginty]

If you use one and someone asks what's your disability just say "I've got Tourette's now **** off you ****"

 

[coffeejo]

The point of accessible toilets is that an able-bodied person can get into standard toilets whereas a disabled person may not be able to.

Using them when you don't need to but because they are more convenient is, to my mind, the equivalent of parking in a reserved space for disabled drivers.

 

[numbnuts]

Shame on you all

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 2379625, member: 259"]I use ours to get changed in and out of cycling gear. I must say, I've never seen them being used by a disabled person, but I suppose I'd be pretty embarrassed if I emerged to find someone waiting.[/quote]

When I worked in a real office I used the ladies khazi to get changed in and out of cycling gear as the gents wasn't big enough to swing a kitten.

 

[LarryDuff]

In my last office we didn't actually have anybody who was disabled working there so the disabled toilet was used by quite a few people.

 

[pplpilot]

IF there are no others free I will.

 

[Fnaar]

When I worked in a real office I used the ladies khazi to get changed in and out of cycling gear as the gents wasn't big enough to swing a kitten.

That's a euphemism, if ever I've heard one!

 

[Fnaar]

If there's someone waiting outside, just walk with a limp

 

[swee'pea99]

Depends on the circs. I wouldn't use them if I thought that doing so was likely to deny them to disabled people who needed them, but very often you come across one that's clearly there to meet some 'elf & safety spec, and is hardly ever used. Then I have no problem using it. (There's one like that at our local swimming pool, in the viewing gallery where I used to sit while the kids had their lessons. The gents is down the stairs and 100m walk away, and the disabled one has to the best of my knowledge not been used by a disabled person since 2002. I used to pop in for a pee without any great qualms.)

 

[threebikesmcginty]

If there's someone waiting outside, just walk with a limp

With a limp what?

 

[Fnaar]

With a limp what?

Kitten. of course

 

[Speicher]

Fnaar has a limp kitten and Swee'pea99 has small qualms.

 

[Arsen Gere]

Just wondering, how disabled do you have to be to qualify ?