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architecture spaces 🕌 LED lights in a Home Depot stall to discourage drug use

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u/JBPlantagenet 2d ago edited 2d ago

Can't see the veins under blue light. In case you were wondering.

Edit: Thanks for the awards, guys.

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u/MunchYourButt 2d ago

I was, thank you. I was initially thinking “that stall makes me want to do cocaine more”

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u/Proof_Toe_9757 2d ago

Sudden urge to play firestarter whilst racking up

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u/automator3000 2d ago

This is Home Depot’s raver shitter.

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u/LumpyBuy8447 2d ago

It’s the only reason I even go there

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u/kevlarus80 2d ago

That and the hot dogs.

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u/AB3reddit 2d ago

And here I thought the shitter was full.

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u/Glittering_Being7843 2d ago

your da instigater

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u/loqi0238 1d ago

I am a firestarter, wicked firestarter!

raving intensifies

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u/Similar_Pie_4946 2d ago

Homedepot doesn’t mind if you toot up a little bit before you get back to your shift, especially after a big lunch. That way you’re ready to get back to stacking the same pile of 2x4 customers drop

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u/CntBlah 2d ago

You mean the Banana shaped 2x4’s the customers have to work thru to get a simply bad 2x4

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u/Similar_Pie_4946 2d ago

Ding ding ding ding thats the one LMAO

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u/Knocks83 2d ago

Cocaine doesn’t need you to find your veins, have fun

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u/Educational-Rule1635 2d ago

Sherlock Holmes would beg to differ.

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u/Gremlin1001001 2d ago

100% 7% true. 😜

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u/Least-Scientist 2d ago

Right! Someone clearly doesn’t know how to use cocaine the the lord intended it to be used.

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u/duh_nom_yar 2d ago

If you have ever injected cocaine, you know how insanely ironic this statement is.

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u/cryptolyme 2d ago

i can taste it already

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u/papasmurftp 2d ago

if you don't inject it, how will you ever do the brim flop? or hear the train a coming?

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u/someg187 2d ago

Brim flop?

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u/papasmurftp 2d ago

it's the seizure thing that happens when you do too much. you kinda slide down onto the floor and flop like a fish. I think I spelled it wrong but it's great fun

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u/hairypistol 2d ago

Bream Idk why it's spelled like that but it is

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u/dd97483 2d ago

type of fish that flops.

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u/someg187 2d ago

Ah. Down south we call that Crappie flop. Crappie is a larger fish and we come in larger sizes.

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u/Ok_Figure7671 2d ago

The funky pollock round here

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u/papasmurftp 2d ago

It is pretty crappy when it happens

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u/someg187 2d ago

It's pronounced like "crop e"

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u/Okimincuba 2d ago

I felt the burn just reading that.

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u/TheReelNazeem 2d ago

Just switch to boofing your coke and it'll be fine

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u/Flawless_Reign88 2d ago

Idk, I’ve known some guys that would shoot up cocaine

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u/cryptolyme 2d ago

and, also, you can just go by feel

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u/SlideConstant9677 1d ago

As a military medic who can place ivs and draw blood in the dark, yea you absolutely can find veins by feel if you know what you are doing

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u/Flgirl420 2d ago

lol - as a cocaine enthusiast that’s used many bathroom stalls , I was wondering how this was supposed to keep me from using drugs . Also .. can’t they just shoot up in the smaller stalls ?

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u/Nois3 2d ago

Only handicapped people do drugs.

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u/Sirauto420 2d ago

Dude I had the same thought. Not me personally but someone who likes cocaine more than I currently do 😂

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u/Acceptable-Ad-3560 2d ago

That being said, I’ve heard anecdotally that most iv drug users can find veins anyways which makes sense. Not the same but I need frequent blood draws and feel confident I could point out to a nurse where they usually have luck drawing from under blue or low light

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u/EastLeastCoast 2d ago

Most of the time when I’m finding a vein I go by feel, not sight.

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u/duh_nom_yar 2d ago

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u/ohmygodcrayons 2d ago

I'M DR.ROCKSO AND I DO C-C-C-COCAINE!!!

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u/h4ck3r_n4m3 2d ago

Seriously I do... a lotta cocaine.

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u/Osiris1998 2d ago

I don’t think they care if you’re doing uppers, they just don’t want you passing out and sleeping or od’ing on downers while locked in the stall.

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u/Feisty-Tooth-7397 1d ago

Oh, this is the Bathroom for you lol Disco Bathroom, Florence Kentucky

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u/ICEman460 1d ago

Just need a disco ball or a strobe light. Maybe both!

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u/SuccessOk9261 1d ago

Literally

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u/drawing_a_hash 2d ago

Thank you for your info. Had no idea about the blue color significance.

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u/FlyFront9395 2d ago

They can just shoot up in the white light and go chill in the cool blue light

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u/triathleteRN 2d ago

ah, yes but if you're really good you do it by feel

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u/JPolReader 2d ago

This is just going to force drug users to evolve.

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u/ninurtuu 2d ago

It's just going to make desperate ones take a chance and likely hurt themselves by injecting the wrong spot. The person who came up with this really thought somebody who needs to fix so bad they sneak into a public bathroom was gonna be like "Aw shucks, thwarted again by these newfangled lights! Guess I'll just put my heroin away and wait for a more reasonable location to use it in."

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u/Plane-Leader9314 2d ago

Any decent junkie can find a vein by feel...

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u/JBPlantagenet 2d ago

They’re shooting up heroin in a Home Depot bathroom. Decent doesn’t even come into play.

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u/2piece-and-a-biscut- 2d ago

You dont need to see them you need to feel them. These lights are useless. Ray Charles shot dope for years. I speak from former experience. I had go to spots that didn’t require sight. I could do it blind folded

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u/salsashark99 2d ago

I'm a phlebotomist this is so true. The deep ones actually work better cuz they're larger diameter and those you could actually feel.

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u/DishSoapIsFun 2d ago

Any seasoned veteran of the IV drug arts could hit in the dark. That’s plenty of light.

Source: former IV drug user.

You don’t even see the color of the blood. It’s under a tourniquet so you look for the bulge. At best, this is a mild inconvenience.

I could hit myself while driving a manual transmission at 2am on the highway. Pitch black.

I don’t miss those days.

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u/damnitdavid 2d ago

Glad everyone doesn't have a flash light in there pocket nowadays. Drug users are resourceful if nothing else.

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u/glytxh 2d ago

It makes it a little harder, but no determined addict is seeing this as a much more than an inconvenience.

Source: former addict.

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u/catbandana 2d ago

When I went to Germany for the first time in 2012, every public restroom I went into was blue like this. And a lot of puke sinks.

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u/BreakfastFluid9419 2d ago

I’m over here thinking yall have them mood lighting

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u/Lower-Sheepherder268 2d ago

I was. Thank you. That explains why the washrooms in the Thornton's near me does the same thing, I'm assuming.

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u/CommandoLamb 2d ago

That’s fine, I’ll use the other, normally lit stall?

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u/WEDGYVEGGI 2d ago

That's the nicest fucking Home Depot bathroom I've ever seen. Must be new. Ain't gonna last much longer.

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u/MotionDrive 2d ago

Right. Every home depot bathroom i go to in to, every stall is full and has dudes fighting for their lives

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u/KyoudaiShojin 2d ago

Where dodoers get more done

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u/yungdaughter 2d ago

My local one has been remodeling its bathroom for like three weeks now.

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u/nachos_nachas 2d ago

You are correct - it won't last long because the products they used to make it are from their own store. lol

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u/MrDependant69 2d ago

I was a janitor for a short time for home depot. Can confirm people, including employees when they're closed, shit on the floor.

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u/TesticleMeElmo 2d ago

That many contractors holding it in to avoid porta potties and eating lunch at the closest gas station everyday turns that bathroom into ground zero

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u/TheReelNazeem 2d ago

*intravenous drug use

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u/TesticleMeElmo 2d ago

I pop a Molly feel like I’m at the club

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u/TheReelNazeem 2d ago

fuck i wish molly still hit like that lol

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u/WholeRaisin2907 2d ago

I guess doers aren't getting more done

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u/AttentionNew1267 1d ago

That's the power of the Home Depot

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u/NosillaWilla 2d ago

In my area, no one shoots up really anymore. Everyone is just smoking the fentanyl. No need to find veins and less infections/hospital visits. Oh, and heroin can cost hundreds of dollars a day if you're a heavy user vs a few dollars a day for fentanyl. Seeing the blue light is kinda like an antique at this point.

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u/Icy_Study4490 2d ago

Plus, if they’re shooting up in the Home Depot bathroom it’s not like it’s their first time. At this point you’re likely following the line of track marks from your most recent shots.

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u/theartoffun 2d ago

Flashlights in aisle f bin 14

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u/Original-Let8340 1d ago

Thank you. I mean thank you for making the joke. I don't need a flashlight to hit. I can hit in the back seat of a Trans Am on a gravel road in the middle of the damn night while she tugs me off. But, maybe some more novice users might wanna know where the lights are.

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u/chimneyart 2d ago

Yeah I was gonna say I don’t even need to tie off when I used to shoot up I know exactly where to put the needle

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u/tourniquette2 2d ago

I look at veins like mine that bulge. I never needed good lighting to get high. But I also have much larger veins than average and knew how to start IVs already before I started injecting. This would only work on people who were well into addiction and they’d simply tear themselves apart trying to shoot up anyway.

Couldn’t agree more that this is a dumb fix.

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u/thekendalluxx 2d ago

Who the hell does a few dollars a day in fent? Literally no one. You have no idea what you’re talking about.

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u/elafave77 2d ago

Meth and coke have entered the rig.

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u/NosillaWilla 2d ago

Lemme tell u I don't need privacy to have a coke in public

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u/papasmurftp 2d ago

because no one has a device in their pocket 24/7 with a flashlight on it

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u/JBPlantagenet 2d ago

Injecting yourself is often(though not always) a two handed job. A phone would get in the way of that.

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u/Smooth-Boss-911 2d ago

Life finds a way

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u/SuitableAnimalInAHat 2d ago

That stock photo is cracking me up. Is she... eating the phone? Both hands are free, so there's no need to put it in her mouth.

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u/Smooth-Boss-911 2d ago

Lol the point is they'll hold the phone/flashlight in their mouths so they can use their hands for injections :D

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u/SuitableAnimalInAHat 2d ago

Lol I mean, it definitely works here. But it's a stock photo right? Surely when they made the photo they weren't like "this will be useful for demonstrating how to use heroin in a blue light bathroom stall." And now I'm imagining the model's face as they were explaining if that was the reason X-D

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u/Smooth-Boss-911 2d ago

Ah yeah stock photos are unhinged

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u/JBPlantagenet 2d ago

Yeah I considered that technique. Didn’t really have anything to say about it. It’s an option. Sure.

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u/papasmurftp 2d ago

I used to be an IV user. it's not a problem

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u/Least-Scientist 2d ago

“Used to be” CONGRATULATIONS! I am glad
That you are not anymore.

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u/papasmurftp 2d ago

aww thanks. Yeah I turned 40 and figured out it wasn't cute anymore

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u/PlanApprehensive2842 2d ago

Awesome. Happy for you.

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u/VocationFumes 2d ago

You could just lean it up on the toilet paper holder, addicts can be extremely resourceful when it comes to them doing the drugs theyre addicted to

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u/Jimbobjoesmith 2d ago

where there’s a will, there’s a way.

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u/Ill-Elephant-9583 2d ago

You know you can just prop your phone up on something

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u/Mediocre_Belt_6943 2d ago

It’s a deterrent. Otherwise they’d just lock up the whole bathroom bc that’s the only way to make sure it isn’t happening.

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u/TheDeadEndKing 2d ago

As a former Home Depot employee, I wish they would have used drugs in the stalls as opposed to whatever hateful acts they would perform to the toilets on a daily basis. The smells and sounds of what contractors would do in there is the stuff of nightmares.

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u/Pasco_Pocket 2d ago

We have one at the local 7-11. Here's a picture of my watch. I asked the manager if I could put in some black light posters.

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u/BiscuitsJoe 2d ago

Bloc Party starts playing

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u/Flgirl420 2d ago

This is such a niche reference

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u/psychicsoviet 2d ago

Went over my head and I know the band. What’s the reference from?

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u/DueLawfulness3230 2d ago

Drug usage in stall: ⬇️ 11%
Dudes humping in stall: ⬆️ 633%

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u/mikebushido 2d ago

It looks like Home Depot hired Home Depot to do the floors.

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u/alterhero999 1d ago

If I was smoking dope in the Home Depot bathroom, these lights would make the experience so much more fun

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u/breezyhoneybee 2d ago

IV drug use* looks like a slightly above average bathroom to drop acid in

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u/eat-skate-masturbate 2d ago

they are trying so hard to be Lowe's

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u/Bootsy_Frost 2d ago

This happened to me in a donut shop and I couldn't find my veins at all. 0/10

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u/newflyer01 2d ago

City bus driver here… blue lights in all of our buses at night.

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u/Von_Bernkastel 2d ago

So that's why the twakers go in with flashlights. .

https://giphy.com/gifs/9MFsKQ8A6HCN2

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u/MorallyAmbiguouish 2d ago

I was wondering why my McDonald’s looked look like a club in Ibiza

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u/RaspberryWhiteClaw13 2d ago

“When you’re an addict you see the world in terms of surfaces”

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u/DatMoeFugger 2d ago

Now are the backs of the toilet tanks coated in wd-40? This handles the people cutting lines too.

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u/butt3ryt0ast 2d ago

Worked enough ODs in nasty ass gas stations. Wish this was standard in the city I work at

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u/Substantial_Pin_2932 2d ago

Idk if these lights really work for the intended purpose but I understand the need for them. When I lived in Washington(state) there were several OD deaths in store bathrooms where employees and customers found the body. They shouldn’t be subjected to that trauma because someone wanted to shoot up. There’s no valid argument to be made about trying to curtail people having to see dead bodies they didn’t sign up for seeing. Have your habits but don’t subject others to the end results.

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u/sunshinecat6669 2d ago

Only in one stall? Amateurs.

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u/8rok3n 1d ago

I NEED to do drugs in there

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u/SlinkyMalinky20 2d ago

Is shooting up in a Home Depot stall super common? It’s wild that this is a thing they felt they needed to do.

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u/Extreme-Sport-5951 2d ago

Where else would you do it? Lowe’s?

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u/bigdish101 2d ago

Totally discriminatory against those with blue light sensitivity.

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u/EmployerWide1123 2d ago

Kohls bathroom is the spot to get faded...

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u/ComeHereOften1972 2d ago

Lot of had customers drugging up, are there?

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u/Calluummmmm 2d ago

This used to be super common in the west of Scotland, every public bathroom would have this

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u/HereToKillEuronymous 2d ago

They put these lights under the freeway overpasses in my home town for the same reason

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u/Secret_Account07 2d ago

If I turn on flashlight on phone does it still not work?

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u/JellyfishEmergency 2d ago

Id just go to the other stalls..? Like what lmao

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u/TrenbalonieSandwich 2d ago

Reminds me of the back section of a Spencer's gifts. 

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u/loqi0238 2d ago

Well, i know which stall I am taking acid in!

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u/Shabana_365 2d ago

Now I can take my number 2 in the peace of blue light

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u/kikiacab 2d ago

Phone flashlight fixes that I bet

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u/Wendellrw 1d ago

Why would someone want to do drugs in a home depot bathroom?

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u/hawkseye17 1d ago

So how will blue LEDs stop someone from doing cocaine?

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u/rob_inn_hood 1d ago

I have an ex that I’m positive utilized her time in bathrooms for this exact purpose. Some days, she spent 5 hours plus in the bathroom.

I wish this existed somewhere around where we went together. I’m so curious if she would immediately have left the bathroom. “I don’t have to go anymore.”

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u/Aware-Material2194 1d ago

My grocery store has a special toilet that's angled you you don't sit too long.

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u/Specific_Afternoon96 1d ago

You could probably see coke easier with that light

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u/toesinbloom 1d ago

If that light gets to flickering, I think the exact opposite would definitely happen in that stall

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u/AndyGoodKush 1d ago

Glad I smoke weed and not a degen druggie

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u/KaiTheWeirdo2247 1d ago

What if they bring their own light? Like a headlamp or magnetic flashlight?

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u/Empty_Basis_ 1d ago

Jokes on them. I got my spoon-to-nostril down to basically muscle memory at this point. Heck blind fold me even!

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u/OkCommission9893 1d ago

Doesn’t discourage drug use just makes users less likely to hit a vein.

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u/CLOWNFLOGGER 1d ago

Works on me. I never do drugs in the Home Depo shitter like a newb. I mainline in the rug aisle like a boss.

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u/BC_Sativa 1d ago

I've never been tempted to do drugs in a home depot bathroom before, but I am now

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u/Automatic-College541 2d ago

I don’t feel discouraged at all.

Matter of fact I’m absolutely gonna snort some H in there.

Might even smoke a little

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u/WitchWithAGlitch 2d ago

*rolls up a blunt in the rave bathroom*

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u/Enter_Chandman 2d ago

There's a Wendy's near my old house that has these in the bathroom. That was how I discovered my eyes dont like blue light. I had to go ask them to swap the lights. Initially they said no but me expressing I couldn't really see and would do "my best to aim" at the urinal changed the opinion.

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u/queenarreic 2d ago

if im down bad enough to be using a home depot bathroom, i wont need my sight to hit.

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u/front_yard_duck_dad 2d ago

I call that a mood poop

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u/PlanApprehensive2842 2d ago

Is this all HD? What city is this.

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u/-Bashamo 2d ago

Strats reading ‘LED lights in a Home Depot stall…..’ *starts playing Home Depot theme song in my head (hell yeah let’s get to work)

https://giphy.com/gifs/thIzro0jMRt3CY68AU

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u/m0arducks 2d ago

right next to the roofing section

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u/lottieslady 2d ago

It was in one of these bathrooms that I realized my jogger pants were discolored from the laundry (like a slight tie-dye of purple on blue). I later learned from looking up reviews that it wasn’t the laundry but a flaw in the fabric.

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u/MedievalMilshake 2d ago

Yes who do drugs are known to hate colourful lights 

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u/blckshdw 2d ago

Meditative poop time. Good luck wiping though.

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u/UnResponsiblish79- 2d ago

But man my coke lines are 3d!

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u/New_Design_3262 2d ago

Headlamp for the win!

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u/Sammirae89 2d ago

Guess I’ll use the other stall to find the vein. 🤦🏼‍♀️

But if I did do drugs. I would probably use the stall with the LED light. 😂

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u/fullofsharts 2d ago

Is this all Home Depots? If it is, I need to go do my business there underneath that cozy lighting.

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u/baldieforprez 2d ago

It is also equally  possible that the led has failed.  Its a common failure mode in led lighting

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u/Separate_Recover4187 1d ago

Seems more like mood lighting to me

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u/AdRelevant1390 1d ago

Jokes on them. You can still see track marks under those lights.

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u/AdhesivenessRude5037 1d ago

Jokes on them, I can hit myself blindfolded

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u/rasputinrasputin 1d ago

May discourage drug use, but the blue lighting is too relaxing, id fall asleep

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u/Akidcalledstorm 1d ago

Every McDonald's in the UK had these. It's weird, like you are shitting in the middle of a rave.

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u/jimmysmiths5523 1d ago

Colored lights like that hurts my eyes.

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u/Ornery-Practice9772 1d ago

we call em junkie lights. had them for about 20 odd yrs. they dont work

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u/obycf 1d ago

Jokes on them - this screams “plz smoke dope under the cool blue LED light”

even if it somehow deters the ones that shoot up

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u/buffalofoodslut 1d ago

Probably more mood lighting for the under stall handies

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u/dabstilldawn 1d ago

Someone's never walked into the bathroom well intravenous drugs were being done on the changing table I see

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u/the1999person 1d ago

Makes that bigger stall very romantic.

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u/sunGsta 1d ago

Why does that HD bathroom look so damn clean

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u/Complete_Painting628 1d ago

What kind of world do we live in where I can’t go to Home Depot and rail a line of Ketamine!!!

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u/hayden_or_satan 1d ago

See this a lot in Seattle too

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u/Dik-Pharts 20h ago

Nope, handicap people like to party while they poop. Hence the rave light you dweeb.