What if I am at work and I realize it is minchah time. The problem is there is no corner to go to or any private place, except the bathroom. If that is the only place I will have kavanah and feel comfortable, is that better than not davening at all?

NO!!! Better to daven in a clean place instead of one which is assur!

I'm pretty sure whether you are comfortable in your surrounding or not, provided it is a safe place you are supposed to daven. you absolutely DO NOT daven in the bathroom in the presence of human waste and excrement. We Jews need to learn to have great emunah and pride in our identity. The Ishmaelites will lay their carpets down wherever they happen to be, office, library and do their thing. Mincha specific you just have a prayerbook. how much distraction could their possibly be. The women bury their faces in the siddur to catch their tears, and hear themselves daven. maybe doing the same will bring you greater Kavannah

You are in an office yes? Perhaps if there is no meeting in the board room you could go in there for the 15mins you need to daven mincha. or else if you are on a lunchbreak step outside the office and find a nice park where you can appreciate Ribbono Shel Olam's fine
handiwork. Lichalta you can daven sitting down in your cubicle I think, drawing from the psak that in an airplane you can daven sitting but thats definately you have nowhere to go, in the office you're 'choosing' to have 'nowhere to go.'

No, if you have the possibility of standing safely, then you must use it. Daven in your cubicle- and stand up when you need to.

I'm not so sure. I heard a couple times that our bathrooms today don't really have the din of the outhouses and pits they used in the past. As long as the toilet lid is down, its not so clear cut... anyone...?

Also what kind of bathroom is this? A regular one or is it a big room with seperate stalls?

True that.

Most bathrooms that I've seen in office buildings don't have toilet lids.

Same here. I actually once heard that you can say asher yatzar outside of stalls if necessary since no longer a bathroom like the olden days, even though I realize it's not the ideal.

whats the shaila!? of course it's better not to daven than to digrace hashem by davenin in the bathroom!

So its either a large one room, and i just face far away from the toilet obviously, or a large room with stalls in which i close all the doors and walk to the side.

Clearly its not ideal, thats why i asked the question, but yes, I do feel uncomfortable davnening in public, and it makes me sad to skip it.

(I am a woman)

In the olden days, before cell phones became ubiquitous, there were these things called phone booths.

hmm..i could look into that

Good luck finding one any more. THese are mostly gone
http://www.showrods.com/images/phone_booth/phone_booth_real
being replaced by banks of phones on a wall or something like this
http://blogs.kcls.org/thebigread/assets_c/...umb-300x400.jpg

although I suppose maybe one day these will take off
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2005/09/68997

You don't really even need a phone booth. Take out your cell phone and people will assume you're speaking to someone in Hebrew. Just don't shukle....

So what do you do on a long plane ride?

In seminary we had a mezuza hnging in the main entrance to the bathrooms (the room with the stalls) and there was an asher yatzar card hanging on the wall next to the sink. The rabbi said that that room is not considered halachikly part of the bathroom and needs a mezuza and one is allowed to sy asher yatzar there.