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Sorry if you're already aware, but in case not: The weird huge gap around the edge of cubical doors in pubic toilets is specific to the US. (For those that don't know, it's literally 1 or 2 cm.) In Europe you just get a toilet door that shuts properly and there's no slit to reconstruct.

I remember my first visit to a toilet in the plush US office of a finance company and thinking WTF are they doing with their toilet cubicle? I only found out later that it's common there.




It can be much more than 2cm. The US really hates people for some reason.


I believe it started as an anti-drug thing more than 50 years ago but somehow it became pervasive even in fairly high end settings where you would never expect such measures. Cargo cult bathroom construction IMO.

Luckily things seem to be gradually changing.


I am aware, and of course this works for any gap you might be walking past. Plenty of newer bathroom stalls here do not have a gap.




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