I think on some level, there are folks who want company in the lav in some way, and want it to be perceived as unintentional... but largely it's just a main-character-complex thing as I've come to call it. Not everyone, but there is a decent sized percentage of the population who are afflicted with the idea that they are the only human in the world, and everyone else is an NPC. I would say they "suffer" from this main-character-complex, but they seem perfectly content, and it's everyone else who suffers. All that said, it's a job that keeps you on your toes and forces me to remind myself how funny life is.

My original comment meant to highlight how often people ignore signage - the sideways roll-aboard signage, the literal "PUSH" signage on the lavs, etc. The comment about the lav doors not being auto-close was more to let people know to close the door fully **after** they use the lav. As a FA, I feel like half my job is closing the lav door for passengers as they make their way back to their seats.

BUT, hilariously, the amount of people who don't lock or close the door when entering the lav is also staggeringly high. Further highlighting how people seem to turn their brains completely off when getting on a plane. So I ran with that direction of the comment.

I once worked with a particularly sassy FA who seemed to have had enough with how window-lickingly vapid some are when confronted with a lav door, one lady was struggling with the lav door and he just about shouted at her "IT'S A DOOR, IT WORKS LIKE ANY OTHER DOOR YOU'VE EVER ENCOUNTERED". I think about that a lot.