How NOT to design a toilet stall....

Several years ago they renovated the Univ. Rochester's Strong Auditorium. This included the men's bathrooms. Very nice, very clean job. You could probably play a four person bridge game around the single throne in the handicap stall.

There's only one small problem...

First, lets talk about the design. You walk into the stall and a very nice, automatically flushing toilet is sitting there staring at you (looking inviting, of course). So you turn around, and sit down. On your wall to the right, near the door is the all-important toilet paper roll.

So far, so good. In fact, you start to notice that it is a WARM toilet. U/R is heated by steam, and the water supply line seems to run near a steam pipe.

We'll skip the part you do between sitting down and getting ready to leave.

Now, time to finish up. You reach for the toilet paper. Damn - can't easily reach it! (What were they thinking - what DO people with wheelchairs do? Well, you leeeeaaannnn forward. There - got it.

Now comes the unpleasant surprise. Remember that automatically flushing feature? Well, the darn toilet now flushes with abandon. And guess what, just like Niagara Falls, the rapids at the bottom throw up lots of spray! Result? Wet cheeks! Well, what do you do about that?

You learn forward to get some more toilet paper....