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Crawling Under The Door Of A Pay Toilet
| Field | Saving money |
| When Obsolete | Mid-1970s |
| Made Obsolete By | The Committee to End Pay Toilets In America (CEPTIA) |
| Knowledge Assumed | An ability to crawl. Willingness to appear weird in a bathroom. |
| When useful | Europe. Any door or turnstile that requires payment and has a gap below. |
Pay toilets were relatively common in the U.S. until the mid 1970s, when a variety of factors (including a campaign by the Committee to End Pay Toilets in America) made them disappear. They can still be found in Europe.
Pay toilets had a door which could only be unlocked by inserting the appropriate coin. But to prevent people from being completely hidden within the toilet there was usually a gap under door. With the right amount of braveness or desperation the minimal payment could be avoided by simply crawling on one's belly along the bathroom floor.
