Okay, here’s your “Dumb Things Jody Did” report for the week ending July 14.
The list is short, as you can well imagine. But that’s okay, because what it lacks in quantity it makes up for in quality.
Let me preface this by saying I completely blame my employer, but I’ll explain after I provide you with the dumb thing.
I walked into the men’s room by accident.
Okay, so I’ve been working for this company for 3 years, in two different buildings. In 90% of the bathrooms I’ve seen/used, the men’s room is on the left, ladies on the right. That’s just the standard.
This bathroom, however, is reversed. For no rhyme or reason, either. The entrance is exactly the same as the others (the doors face each other, so they aren’t flush (sic) with the rest of the wall. There is nothing outwardly different about this set of bathrooms, other than that they are swapped.
Luckily, nobody was using a urinal (someone was in a stall) and the hall was empty so I wasn’t spotting running out. But gah, what horror goes through you when you realize what you’ve done!
Take it easy breezy 🙂 It is a sinking feeling when you realize you have walked into the wrong bathroom. However, it is by far not the worst thing that can happen. You could always switch the signs on the doors to suit your fancy.
When I walk into a restroom, especially if it’s one of those in a restaurant that’s labeled all cutesy (“Amigos/amigas”, “Vaqueros/Senoritas”, “Elton John/Olivia-Newton John”) I always look for a urinal as soon as I walk in the door.
If I see that extra row of stalls instead, I reverse my movements immediately.
I have been there and done that. I live in a small community with a small airport and not until I had finished did I realize my error. The guy in the other stall was more distressed than I. I had to laugh.
It’s probably a bad marketing campaign to tell folks if they read this website they’ll increase their odds of using the wrong restroom, huh?
Is the men’s room supposed to be on the right and the women’s room on the left? I never knew that. And here I am, looking for the little sign with the shadow figure wearing a skirt … probably a poodle skirt in the light … and then going into the other one. You have now totally complicated things for me.
Nah Bill, not as a rule, but every other bathroom in that building has the boys on the left configuration, which is what threw me.
On my first day with my current company, I walked into the boys’ john. It was on that side at my old company, so I just went by force of habit. Was like that Southwest commercial: Wanna get away?
Seriously, what is the deal with separate bathrooms anyway? Can’t we be like Ally McBeal and have a unisex?