This is not a Struggle, it is a rant.
Why the hell do bathroom doors open backwards? Am I the only one who has noticed this?? You push to get in, and have to pull to get out. THIS IS WRONG. For one thing, isn't there a fire hazard issue the like of the Iroquois Theatre? (1903 - look it up). Yes, I will admit that at any given time in a women's restroom there will be considerably fewer than 602 people (though not by much, at larger public events), but the same principle applies; the door opens against the direction of travel.
Fire hazard is the least of my worries, however. HYGIENE. I wash my hands, as I pray does everyone else, but I know there are various idiots and smallish children who do not. These people open the door by the handle just as I am forced to do. ICK. So I have to keep the towels I use to dry my hands and use them as the hygiene equivalent of oven mitts to protect myself. Then I can only pray there is a garbage nearby outside so I can dispose of them immediately rather than carry this thing (now covered with idiot-and-smallish-children germs) around, or alternatively pull the door open as hard as I can, chuck the trash in a bin and try to jump out the door before it closes on me.
Don't get me started on those air-dryers; sometimes it's just so goddamn disgusting I'm basically stuck there until someone else comes in. Actually, being stuck in a bathroom just because of sudden spell of hypochondria would probably count as a Struggle.
But the fact remains, SOMEBODY NEEDS TO FIX THIS.
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I have noticed this! It IS disgusting! All I want to do is open the door to escape my tiny public poop pot room and in order to do so I have to squish up near the nastiness because there's no room for the door to swing! Grrooooss. There is good news tho-I've noticed most of the handicapped stalls do not have this problem. Of course there's plenty of room to avoid the nastiness there anyway.
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