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To: AmericanInTokyo

The difference between American vs. Japanese restrooms might be explained by cost. It’s probably cheaper to buy stalls with partial dividers. If I owned a business, I would want to install the type you described - with dividers from the floor to the ceiling and without gaps in the doors - but it might be too expensive.

I’ll tell you, I don’t like sending my young sons into public men’s rooms to use urinals that are open for everyone to see. Urinals should be enclosed, too. (Between the germs and this weird stuff going on, I worry about sending them in there at all, as do many other parents.)

Personally, I prefer the “family” restrooms. The whole family goes in and locks the door to outsiders. There’s a toilet, a sink, a diaper changing station, in one private room.

P.S. We don’t seem to have the same problems in the women’s rooms, at least as far as I’ve noticed, anyway.


29 posted on 08/30/2007 10:30:58 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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Note: In the family restrooms, the toilet is enclosed in a stall, too.


31 posted on 08/30/2007 10:32:36 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: Tired of Taxes
Fascinating to see how the other half, well, "lives".

Good suggestions and thoughts. Take care, Good night.

32 posted on 08/30/2007 10:32:53 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Visit this thread 1-hour from now. In that time, an average of 416.6 more ILLEGALS will be in the US)
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To: Tired of Taxes
" I don’t like sending my young sons into public men’s rooms to use urinals that are open for everyone to see. "

Unfortunately, that's because we haven't enforced codes of proper social conduct. Now we have to worry about the person across the table, or in this case, the stall.

40 posted on 08/30/2007 10:38:59 PM PDT by endthematrix (He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
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To: Tired of Taxes

I prefer open spaces, with clear fields of fire.


68 posted on 08/30/2007 11:59:14 PM PDT by M1911A1
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To: Tired of Taxes
P.S. We don’t seem to have the same problems in the women’s rooms, at least as far as I’ve noticed, anyway

I had to spoil things but not every person in a dress with makeup on is a woman.

138 posted on 09/03/2007 5:54:15 PM PDT by fso301
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