Two More Bathroom Pet Peeves

1.) You walk forward into the stall, and you push the door shut, which isn't that hard to do. And then the world goes crazy around you. You reach out and grab the locking lever with your left hand in an upside down bird-shadow-puppet grasping position. This is the kind where the fulcrum (the point at which the lever rotates about) is at the right end of the lever, and to lock the door, you rotate the left side of the lever clockwise. No matter what the orientation, it seems unnatural, the way you have to hold and rotate the lever. The only way the beginning and ending orientation of the lever MIGHT make sense is if you were a small person or a child, because then you could reach UP at it and push it up and over to the right. If anyone knows the benefit behind this, please let me know. I'd much rather see a sliding bar or just a knob that you twist.

So far it might not sound that bad, but NOW imagine the stall opens OUT. So you PULL the door open before you walk into the stall. Now you have to hold that lever as you pull the door shut and keep pulling it towards yourself while you rotate it clockwise. This design is enraging and no benefit could possibly outweigh its annoyingness. Both sides of the lever, the ones you grip, are angled so that you have no ledge to hold. The only thing giving you a grip on it is the friction between your skin and the metal, which would at least be partially redeeming if the entire lever handle was rectangular.

2.) Automatic-flush-SIT-DOWN-toilets. Okay, I don't even need to get too graphic. But these always go off early on me. So maybe I stand on the toilet seat while I'm cleaning up, it DOESN'T MEAN I'M DONE!