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I "accidentally" went into the men's room on a shop!

January 17, 2015 07:14AM
I did an audit tonight at a truck stop. I had the security guard check the men's room before I went in to take my photos just because of the large size of the restroom. So he checks first, then walks me through. I go in to take my pics, and there is a man in the stall with the door closed. I wanted to yell at the security guard for putting me in that situation, but instead I just took my pics and walked through to the other side. I was sure to keep the man's feet out of my pics.
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January 18, 2015 06:30PM
I did a Baja Fresh shop where they had only one unisex one person restroom. I always do the restroom at the end. Just as I got up to go one of the (male) staff went on his break. I asked for the key and they said someone had it. I stood there for many minutes feeling silly and finally mentioning I had a long ride home and really needed to go. After about 5 minutes they started to discuss the fact that xxx always takes his break in the bathroom. The break was 15 minutes long! Xxx must have been reading or dozing in there or perhaps something else every day. There was more discussion between employees and finally after 10 minutes one of them got up the nerve or came up with the idea to knock on the door and ask the employee to vacate. The only good thing was that during the discussion I found out the name of the person inside whose nametag I had not been able to find.
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January 18, 2015 06:54PM
@tracyvp wrote:

Sometime if we're having drinks together and I've had enough, remind me to tell you about the time I took a SHOWER in the wrong gender area of the spa on a cruise ship!

We are. You have. So go ahead. smiling smiley

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I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
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January 18, 2015 07:51PM
My case was many years ago. But it saved me from embarrassment this week.

Long before I mystery shopped, I used to travel internationally for work. One time I had been on 4 continents in 3 days, with a lot of time in cultures that use a bucket, a hose, and a hole in the ground.

When I got off the plane in the US, the bathrooms were just across from where we de-planed. I thought Finally, a Western bathroom. Then I walked into the closest door, went in and did my business. While I was going out, a man came in. He looked at me and said You must be really disoriented. That's the first time I noticed it was a men's room.

Ever since then, I look at the sign on the door twice. This actually saved me a few times this week. In my neck of the woods, all the Chevron's have the ladies room on the right and the mens room on the left as you go down the hall. But I was shopping in another county this week and they were all the other way around. I can't tell you how many times I almost walked into the wrong room except for the fact that I checked the sign twice!!
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January 25, 2015 04:23AM
Years ago I had a training for my church at a nearby seminary. At break time my mom and I looked for a bathroom but they all said "Men". The organizers realized the seminary had NO Womens bathrooms! Makes sense since only men can become Catholic priests, right? They told all of us to use one of the Mens bathroom and someone stood guard at the door so no men would come in. We made jokes about that in church for years.
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January 25, 2015 05:44AM
This one happened at work years ago......

We had a men's and women's restroom, side by side, as most are.

One day, as I was standing near the restroom, this Asian man came out of the women's restroom, zipping up his pants, with a smile on his face smiling smiley

I never said a word....
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January 25, 2015 05:50AM
Many years ago in high school I worked in the catalog department of my local Sears. One night I was working alone and really needed to go to the restroom. I finally had a few minutes with no customers so I run, full speed, out the back of the department, through the stock room, through the back door to the offices and down the hall. The restrooms were right next to the employee break room. The break room had a door on each end then the women's restroom, then the men's. So I'm running, boom break room, boom closed door - women's restroom, boom - men's room. Uh. Thanks person who closed the never closed break room door. :/

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At the moment only demons come to mind
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