Then last night, it happened again, an elderly women using a walker was waiting to use the bathroom and when Cassidy came out of the stall, I asked the women if she wanted to go in and she said she needed a handicap stall, but they were all taken (by non-handicap people). She said people don't honor them. I felt terrible because she was waiting while Cassidy went to the bathroom and then I while I went and when I came out she was still waiting. Not fair.
I always needed the handicap stalls with Alec, and I would sometimes take Cassidy in them because it gave us more room and less touching of the dirty bathroom stuff.
I will never use a handicap stall again, because however inconvenient it may be to wait a few minutes longer when the handicap stall is free, or however more convenient it would be so your kids don't touch the dirty walls, just think of how much , much more inconvenient it is for a person with a handicap to have to wait or fit into a regular stall-- because this boy could not wait the few minutes.
I share this because I used to think that if noone was waiting, then it was ok, but at any second someone could come in and need it.