As a Canadian, I've used the wrong bathroom twice. I knew where I belonged, but I guess I didn't know where I was...
I'm dumb.
Edit: I'm going to elaborate even though I should have been asleep hours ago.
First time it happened, it was the first week of college. I left the Learning Commons area into a small hallway that turns at the end, leading to the main hall. Before the turn, there are two doors to the right. I had been looking down at my phone as I was walking, so when I looked up briefly I saw the Men's Room sign, so I looked back down to my phone and took the first right. While it wasn't the first bathroom I used in this school, it was the first time I was using this particular "Men's Room"- (the other bathroom I used earlier had one gross urinal in some weird corner and a few stalls). This bathroom had no urinals, but about 5 or 6 stalls. This school is so poorly designed is basically what I thought. I walked in and saw a pair of black leather shoes next to what I thought was a man-purse under a stall door ( if you're reading this now, I totally agree with what you're thinking; how can a guy be so stupid??? ). I thought to myself; college teachers are weird.. So I go into a stall, lift the toilet seat and answer nature's call. Then I flushed the toilet, calmly walk to the sink, wash my hands, and head for the exit (the shoes and purse were still in that stall and most definitely recognised that the sound of my pee stream was different than womens'. Like she had to have known right?). As I leave the bathroom, I look up and see the Women's Bathroom sign that I had missed and my eyes got so wide so quickly that all I could do was drop my gaze to the floor and powerwalk around that corner out of that hallway into the main hall. I'm probably pretty lucky that I wasn't expelled right then.
Second time. This was the evening that we finished our last exam, so basically our whole program was out celebrating at one of two bars in town. I was pretty drunk by this point and decided that all the stuff in beer that isn't alcohol should be expelled from my body. I walked to the bathroom area and turned right when I should have turned left and ended up in a bathroom that once again had no urinals. I quickly came to a panic and thought NOT AGAIN!, and turned and nearly ran out, almost running into two girls who shouted "YOU'RE NOT A GIRL!"
"I know, I'm sorry!" I replied before I made it across the hall and into the men's. Got lucky there and wasn't kicked out of the bar, plus my friends and I left to go drink with our prof in a different bar, where I made a fool of myself in different ways.
DerangedOctopus on April 3rd, 2017 at 23:50 UTC »
What if they're literally in the wrong washroom because they misread the sign?
clickmagnet on April 4th, 2017 at 00:09 UTC »
What I don't get is, how often does this happen anyway that it manages to become a goddam election issue?
numbah16 on April 4th, 2017 at 00:17 UTC »
To be fair:
As a Canadian, I've used the wrong bathroom twice. I knew where I belonged, but I guess I didn't know where I was...
I'm dumb.
Edit: I'm going to elaborate even though I should have been asleep hours ago.
First time it happened, it was the first week of college. I left the Learning Commons area into a small hallway that turns at the end, leading to the main hall. Before the turn, there are two doors to the right. I had been looking down at my phone as I was walking, so when I looked up briefly I saw the Men's Room sign, so I looked back down to my phone and took the first right. While it wasn't the first bathroom I used in this school, it was the first time I was using this particular "Men's Room"- (the other bathroom I used earlier had one gross urinal in some weird corner and a few stalls). This bathroom had no urinals, but about 5 or 6 stalls. This school is so poorly designed is basically what I thought. I walked in and saw a pair of black leather shoes next to what I thought was a man-purse under a stall door ( if you're reading this now, I totally agree with what you're thinking; how can a guy be so stupid??? ). I thought to myself; college teachers are weird.. So I go into a stall, lift the toilet seat and answer nature's call. Then I flushed the toilet, calmly walk to the sink, wash my hands, and head for the exit (the shoes and purse were still in that stall and most definitely recognised that the sound of my pee stream was different than womens'. Like she had to have known right?). As I leave the bathroom, I look up and see the Women's Bathroom sign that I had missed and my eyes got so wide so quickly that all I could do was drop my gaze to the floor and powerwalk around that corner out of that hallway into the main hall. I'm probably pretty lucky that I wasn't expelled right then.
Second time. This was the evening that we finished our last exam, so basically our whole program was out celebrating at one of two bars in town. I was pretty drunk by this point and decided that all the stuff in beer that isn't alcohol should be expelled from my body. I walked to the bathroom area and turned right when I should have turned left and ended up in a bathroom that once again had no urinals. I quickly came to a panic and thought NOT AGAIN!, and turned and nearly ran out, almost running into two girls who shouted "YOU'RE NOT A GIRL!"
"I know, I'm sorry!" I replied before I made it across the hall and into the men's. Got lucky there and wasn't kicked out of the bar, plus my friends and I left to go drink with our prof in a different bar, where I made a fool of myself in different ways.
Fin.