Caution, entering rant mode... This is actually a giant pet-peeve of mine and that is how Americans in particular (and some other western countries) treat publ

Caution, entering rant mode... This is actually a giant pet-peeve of mine and that is how Americans in particular (and some other western countries) treat public or publicly accessible toilets (malls, stores, theaters, rest stops, gas stations). Basically, at least in men's restrooms, they destroy them. The #1 most common issue is aholes that pee standing up in the toilet. My fiction is they're embarrassed to show their junk so they use a stall. They don't lift the seat and they pee all over it. Once in a while I see someone use the stall when all the urinals are full but more often than not there are free urinals but the guy still wants to pee on the toilet. Giving him the benefit of the doubt he doesn't pick up the seat because he doesn't want to touch it. But that just seems symptomatic of the "me first" American culture. Screw everyone else. The #2 most common issue is broken stalls. The stalls in the USA are almost universally poorly designed. They have an 8 inch gap at the bottom and often are hanging from the ceiling. They are exceedingly easy to break or bend and the locks for the stalls have at most 2mm of tolerance so any bending means they don't stay open. Worse (and it happens often) is when they barely stay closed so I get in, close, lock, pull down pants, sit on toilet in my most vulnerable moment and someone else closes a door in another stall and my door opens. The #3 most common issue is stuffing / clogging the toilet. I can't tell if people do this by accident or on purpose. There are sometimes signs up that say "please don't put non TP in the toilet". Others that say if you have to use a lot of paper please flush the toilet often. As far as I can tell American's take this stuff for granted. That's just how it is. But it's not! In Scandinavia and areas near by I saw immaculate public restrooms. They might have cost $0.50 but they had full floor to ceiling doors with sturdy walls. Some even had their own private individual sink. Japan public restrooms also almost always have doors that at least go all the way to the floor and usually aren't destroyed like USA ones. Subway restrooms in Japan in general are not the cleanest but they are usually functional which is not true, at least in my experience, of many USA public restrooms. As for #1 I wish someone like Adam Sandberg would figure out a comic meme that made it un-macho for men to pee in stalls. I guess I assume if it was funny enough and popular enough then it would be more embarrassing to pee on a toilet than use the urinal and that would fix #1. I have no idea how to fix #2 or #3 though.