Oh yeah the neverending ponytail and bun struggle is real... my SO always tells me I look like the Bendneck Lady when I drive lol

Also, in Japan, bathrooms have a sort of ledge where you can place your stuff while using the urinals. There are also hooks to hang your umbrella or bags.

Because that would be using common sense! Apparently this too is a waning commodity!

There shouldn't have been a fight because it shouldn't have been an "if". The discussion should have started from "where do we put the disposal?"

Those are indeed the worst, and seem to be popular with "sleek" contemporary designs. A huge sink with the spout reaching 1" past the edge so you have to press your hands against the side of the basin to access the water.

My one experience with what I now take to be a purse hook was when they were installed on the face of the bar just where your knee would find them when sitting on the stool.

Was the designer bloody stupid johnson?

In general things are designed with the worst way for handicap people. Urban architects and engineers should live a month in a wheelchair or with a stroller before they do things. For example the metro at my parents city is """adapted""" for us, they put a beautiful sticker and cheered of how amazing they are. The metros are taller than the platforms and it leaves a small step. Small enough that a walking person wont notice but bit enough that my disabilities scotter cannot get there...

Only the wealthy can afford to become an architect in America.

BP taught me that those gaps in the stalls i an American thing. Sooo happy we dont have those

Wasteful and disgusting. Flushing sends up particles into the air and can spread across the bathroom so you breathe in the aerosolized waste or the potentially harmful bacteria/viruses from stool, urine, vomit...

Bring a roll of blue painters tape and put a piece over the sensor while you clean then move it to the next toilet when you finish that one. It will keep it from flushing

Yeah, we got a new delivery ramp years back, so we do not need to use the public entrance anymore. Turns out we use the public entrance since them anyways, because the ramp is highly unsafe and horrible to work with. The architect is still mad at us, he think, it was a great idea.

my bf who is a chef also hates sinks that are to small for a very large pot and/or too far away from the stove so that you have to carry the big, full and therefor heavy pot to the stove. it's something he hates in his professional kitchen and in our ymall privat one LOL

You can't hang it on the hook at the top of the door if it has one - it can be reached by a determined thief. And who wants to put it on the floor

I had to get a glob of soap on my hands and let a little girl swipe it off because the soap dispensers were impossible for her to reach. This was at a ski resort, with ski schools and everything. Main lodge at the bottom of the mountain

Yeah, place where I used to work had floor to ceiling glass walls on conference rooms. Then they had to add curtains because you know, sometimes you might be sharing something you can't announce to the whole company. Also it is a distraction when you are in a meeting in a glass cube and you see people outside the cube passing by.

And how about designing parking lots in northern climates that snow plows can actually maneuver around

A Brand High School (1991) Had A Chemistry Lab With An Emergency Shower But NO Floor Drain--Contaminated Water Everywhere

At my McDonald's the stall is so short they had to cut a hole in the door so it could swing past the toilet when it opened. You had to stand beside the toilet to get in or out.

Handicap stall doors that open inward. I push the door open, enter in my wheelchair, and there is no room to swing the door closed. I would have to leave my wheelchair outside the stall, but there are no bars for me to hold onto to help me go inside.

The people who designed our new hospital hate nurses/etc. Who's idea was it to put the sharps container back in the corner, next to the sink and behind the computer? Or have the computer able to hit the code blue button if swung the right way (did that one myself). Or put the sink that staff are meant to wash their hands at DIRECTLY next to the bed- sure, they're on isolation and I need to wear a gown, but let me take the gown off and turn to wash my hands in arms-reach of the patient. And WTF decided carpeting a HOSPITAL was a good idea? I could go on and on

Yes, this is the case at every hospital I've been in in the chicagoland area! The nursing staff came in to turn off the light over the head of my bed and the doctors didn't even know how. So stupid.

They installed huge cigarette dispensers at the checkouts of my local supermarket, making the space between the checkouts so narrow that it's impossible to unpack the shopping cart, especially when you have a belly. I never go there anymore when I know my cart will be full. The cashiers told them it would be a mistake and now they've promised to fix it for months and nothing happened.

I've had two surgeries now done at a hospital that has the call buttons on extensions that, unless they're tied to the rail, naturally fall right under my shoulders. I didn't realize it at first - too heavily medicated - and the nurses didn't either. Wasn't until the night shift came on a few hours later it was fixed. Not an architectural issue but definitely a problem in design & arrangement of the room. The system had the OP problem, too - it couldn't be switched off without reaching behind the head of the bed, and around the rig for the IV drip.

Yes I feel you!!! I used to forget to turn the call bell off in the beginning of my clinical training!! Right above the head of the bed, not really noticeable and we have to lean and reach over the patient in the bed to switch it off!!! Who originally designed it this way??!!

Why don't they just put on double hinges so the doors can go out or in when needed?

Arg! I’m a skater,and I sometimes bring my bag with me to the restroom at the rink(so it doesn’t get stolen) the doors open inward!

Doors normally open inwards to prevent you from accidentally smaking them right into the face of a person who potentionally stands on the other side of the door, but cannot be seen. This issue can be solved with a glass door, or maybe just a window section, but I guess that is not really a good option for a door on a toilet stall for obvious reasons.

It's awful. I know. 💔

We have not great bathrooms at work and we have to share with all the customers, but the doors open in or out, one advantage that I am happy with.

Those kinds of bathrooms are RIDICULOUS.

The doors open inwards so you can physically prevent someone from opening it against your will. With your legs.

Every time software is 'upgraded', becomes inevitably worse.

I have repeatedly seen paper towel dispensers that you grab the towel to pull some out, but the damn thing is set so tight all you get is a very small handful of paper. Bloody useless.

And/or there's a 'vessel sink' like a honking great mixing bowl on a high counter. I've thought, I hope whoever designed this mess has to use this very bathroom when they're old and arthritic, and see how -they- like it.

I’ve heard about lots of school libraries that were centrally placed in their buildings …fantastic! Centrally placed in an atrium … not fantastic. (No walls = no crowd control, no noise control, no stock control…)

At a school I taught in they put the drains in the center but sloped the floors UPWARDS towards the drains. So nothing would run in the drain unless the entire room was flooded with 1.5 inches of liquid. Our poor janitor was always fighting with the bathrooms and especially the ones for the little kids with bad aim. He'd have to hose the floor down and then sweep the pissy water towards the drains for a half hour to attempt to clean things.

Disney Had A Coaster W/ Animatronic Bigfoot That Is Static Now. Movement Cracked The Foundation And Can Only Be Braced. A Proper Fix Would Have To Dismantle The Entire Ride. Too Expensive They Said

The Communications Building at my University was built with such thick walls no one had cell service inside.

Time traveler?

Uh... was that bad design, or good?