Wetherspoons

JReacher1

Yep get a radar key from Amazon.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unknown-RADAR-KEY-Disabled-Toilets/dp/B0033FQ260

That will sort out the locked toilet door problem.

knightstyle

If you are disabled ask your local council for one. My MIL did and got one for free, trouble is she keeps leaving it at home when she needs it!

zaksmum

Jamie_Carter wrote: »

I've been told by someone who used to work in a Wetherspoons that they keep the disabled toilets locked for three reasons:

1. to stop other people using them, in order to keep them clean for disabled customers.
2. to stop people taking drugs in them.
3. to stop people having sex in them.

Those reasons don't seem very valid to me. People could do drugs/have sex in other toilets and they don't keep those locked.

I don't see why a disabled customer should have to announce their need for the toilet to everyone in earshot at the bar just because a key is needed.

I've never heard of a Radar key though.

In the Wetherspoons round here, the toilets are unlocked by a Yale type key like you would use for your front door.

System

zaksmum wrote: »

Those reasons don't seem very valid to me. People could do drugs/have sex in other toilets and they don't keep those locked.

I don't see why a disabled customer should have to announce their need for the toilet to everyone in earshot at the bar just because a key is needed.

I've never heard of a Radar key though.

In the Wetherspoons round here, the toilets are unlocked by a Yale type key like you would use for your front door.

I think the Yale type key is a radar key. They look very similar.

The reasons he gave are rubbish with the exception of the first one.

Disabled toilets need to be kept clean so by restricting the use of them it ensures they don't get covered in filth. If the seat is covered in urine then it's harder for a disabled woman/man to use it without just sitting in it. A none disabled woman can just squat!

timbo58

Wetherspoons are very much a case of which town they are in IME, i.e. in Lymington it's probably one of the better pubs in town, in some areas though it can be a complete dump.

Jamie_Carter

zaksmum wrote: »

Those reasons don't seem very valid to me. People could do drugs/have sex in other toilets and they don't keep those locked.

They are perfectly valid. Most people taking drugs or having sex in toilets would want privacy. Not what you get in toilets with a number of cubicles is it?

I would have thought that was obvious.

JReacher1

Jamie_Carter wrote: »

They are perfectly valid. Most people taking drugs or having sex in toilets would want privacy. Not what you get in toilets with a number of cubicles is it?

I would have thought that was obvious.

But when you've got your "privacy" a queue will be forming outside as there is only one cubicle?

Is it private when you've a queue of people waiting to get in?

Sheldon_Cooper

JReacher1 wrote: »

But when you've got your "privacy" a queue will be forming outside as there is only one cubicle?

Is that a statement or a question? It's a bit hard to tell because you've written a statement but there's a question mark at the end. (Don't schools teach people about punctuation these days?)

If it's a statement then I think it's wrong because I've never seen a queue outside a disable toilet.

If it's a question, the answer is no, for the same reason.

Zedicus

Sheldon_Cooper wrote: »

Is that a statement or a question? It's a bit hard to tell because you've written a statement but there's a question mark at the end. (Don't schools teach people about punctuation these days?)

I think he's trying to make it read as a written equivalent to those whiny American schoolgirls who have that habit of raising the pitch of their voice at the end of sentences. Why they do that, God alone knows.

JReacher1

You do seem to like an insult zedicus. I think it reflects badly on you!

Sheldon you don't get a queue as people know they are locked for disabled use only. If they weren't then you would.

The question mark is used to indicate uncertainty. Not gramatically correct I agree but it's a useful device that can be used on a forum.