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

January 10, 2015 02:23AM

I was doing an assignment and went into the restroom. I lowered my pants and was just about ready to sit down, when my eye caught this strange white thing on the wall. It had a cherry colored disk in the bottom of this white sink-like thing on the wall. I said, "Oh NO! That is a urinal! I am in the men's room!"

I pulled my pants up as fast as I could and ran out. I checked the sign. It said MEN'S. Oh God...I quickly went into the ladies room. When it asks the question, "Which restroom did you visit?" I wanted to say BOTH! lol

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January 10, 2015 02:28AM

At least it wasn't occupido with someone taking care of business, Sunny!

January 10, 2015 02:30AM

@bestofbothworlds wrote:

At least it wasn't occupido with someone taking care of business, Sunny!

I know! For that, I am very grateful

January 10, 2015 02:59AM

That theatre assignment where you must take a guest of the opposite gender in order to evaluate both restrooms? Sunny has permission to fly solo on them.

January 10, 2015 03:01AM

I snapped a few photos of the restrooms' door and this guy pops out and freaks! Oops. Sorry bud and don't worry. The photos aren't going to Facebook.

January 10, 2015 04:30AM

I used to be a road warrior for five years living out of Residence Inn in the larger cities and three star hotels when that was all that was available. I had a large three state route that I slowly crawled around and went back to a city and went to a small town tavern that I was very familiar with from my last trip a few months prior.

Well, They changed the mens and womens rooms around, and I went into the womens room without knowing it.

The locals had a fun time with me and held the door shut and called me a pervert and knew I was disorientated. They eventually stopped holding the door and I flew out (half drunk) and took over a table and they all had a good chuckle.

It was a small town of about 8,000 and they all knew that there was a remodel and the womens and mens was changed to be the *OPPOSITE* locations.

Ever since then, I'm very careful to get it right.

January 10, 2015 01:36PM

An extra long line at the golden arches (single stall type of restrooms) meant that I used the men's room rather than waiting. Nowhere in the instructions does it say you have to evaluate your gender's restroom. I filled out my report honestly and it was not questioned.

January 10, 2015 02:18PM

For many of the gas stations that I shop, the restroom is unisex (one person enters only). For other times, if it is a restroom with a lock, I've done as LauraJeanne and used the men's if the women's is occupied.

I might add that I have noted that for a greater majority, in the men's restroom, the seat is up and has not been peed upon (unlike the women's).

January 11, 2015 05:21AM

That wasn't fair for them to switch them around, Scanman!

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/11/2015 05:22AM by Sandra Sue.

January 11, 2015 05:25AM

I heard that there have been lawsuits about using the other restroom, and that the person who really has to go (which is usually the woman because our bladders are 1/3 the size of men's and women's restrooms notoriously don't have enough stalls for our habits) can legally use the other restroom given that all normal precautions are taken and no one of the the opposite sex is in there at the time.

January 12, 2015 03:01AM

I lived in Japan many years ago where restrooms are unisex. These are multiple people restrooms. I will never forget the time I came out of the individual stall and was washing my hands at the sink when the male using the urinal next to the sink tried to pick me up....his fly was open and he was in the middle of doing his business. I never even got a chance to check him out to see if he was cute. I was out of there so fast!

January 12, 2015 07:46PM

I accidentally did that same thing yesterday too! I've been to this grocery store several times too. (In my defense, the store was really crazilly crowded at the time.) When I unknowingly walked into the Mens' Room, I thought to myself "oh, they've remodeled. I like how it's so much more open now. What is that thing on the wall? A water feature?... Oh no!" And, I had that same thought when I was filling out the report. Which one did I visit? Well, really both.

January 12, 2015 09:20PM

Hope you didn't wash your hands in those low sinks with the green pucks of soap.

@PeggyShoppy wrote:

I accidentally did that same thing yesterday too! I've been to this grocery store several times too. (In my defense, the store was really crazilly crowded at the time.) When I unknowingly walked into the Mens' Room, I thought to myself "oh, they've remodeled. I like how it's so much more open now. What is that thing on the wall? A water feature?... Oh no!" And, I had that same thought when I was filling out the report. Which one did I visit? Well, really both.

January 13, 2015 03:13AM

Years ago, while at a movie (not a shop) I had to go the restroom really bad and ran inside quickly. It was a large restroom, with these little funny-looking white sinks lined up against the wall. I said to myself, those sure look strange for sinks....

Then I noticed they were NOT sinks! They were urinals!

This was so many years ago but going into the men's room the other day, brought back urinal-memories

January 13, 2015 04:36AM

I once accidently walked into the opposite restroom at McDonalds. Luckily it was empty.

January 13, 2015 08:19AM

The last time I got married. We had our formal wedding pictures taken at the Sears portrait studio. They didn't have a changing room available, so the wife says lets just use the women's since the floor is cleaner. My wife told every female that came in that there was a man in there changing into formal wear for pictures. Damned if someone didn't complain to security. So this Mall Cop comes over and berates us while we were getting the pictures done. He just went on and on and on. Finally I just told him to shut it. Then he got even more belligerent. So I asked him his name, he hemmed and hawed about what his name was but I told him that was fine I have his description. After we got our pictures done with and changed in the proper bathrooms I went to the Store manager and talked to him about it. Well the manager didn't give a @#$%& so I said fine, we just bought a house and need new furniture and guess where we are not spending the $30,000.00 that we have budgeted for furnishing the house. It wasn't at Sears that's for damn sure.

January 14, 2015 02:00AM

Jaymo, I'm not quite that bad! Lol!

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/14/2015 02:01AM by PeggyShoppy.

January 14, 2015 04:49AM

On one of my shops, I entered a washroom and it looked odd. I was just thinking on how I was going to report it but a man came out and said, "Welcome!" I was out of there as fast as I could.

January 14, 2015 06:07AM

Every time I do one of those yellow gas station audits, I visit the restroom of the opposite gender and take pictures.

Creepy? Not me!

January 14, 2015 06:48PM

I like the use of quotation marks in the title!

January 14, 2015 06:56PM

The other night I was doing a station audit and opened the door to the men's room to take a picture and the poor dude inside had forgotten to lock the door. Awkward!!!!

January 15, 2015 04:30AM

@saacman5033 wrote:

I like the use of quotation marks in the title!

It really was an accident!

January 15, 2015 04:25PM

Sure it was...

January 16, 2015 12:09AM

When our children were just big enough to reach the handles on the sink to wash their hands, we walked down the road to the nearest restaurant, arriving about 15 minutes before it officially opened for lunch. We were the only people in the restaurant who were not employees, I thought. We sat down but one of the boys needed to go to the restroom. No employee had gone in or out. After a while, I got up to check on him. I cracked the door to the men's room to ask if he could reach the sink. To my surprise, not only were the urinals close to the door and our son was washing his hands, but there was a man with his back to me at a urinal. I closed the door and went back to sit down. Zoom! The man, wearing camouflage pants and a black T-shirt flew out the front door, never to be seen again. I didn't know it could embarrass a man as much as it could a woman to have the door opened like that.

January 16, 2015 12:15AM

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

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/19/2015 06:48PM by tracyvp.

January 16, 2015 02:53AM

I'm a man with pretty long hair, and while I have facial hair now, I didn't when I started mystery shopping. I once went into the men's room in a pretty nice restaurant while MSing and it had a restroom attendant. As I was walking over to use the bathroom, he rather rudely yelled at me to "get out of here." It was already awkward, but it bordered on being discriminatory: at least he said that to someone who was "just" a mystery shopper, instead of a transman.

January 16, 2015 02:41PM

I was in the men's room at Sam's Club washing my hands, when this older lady walked in. I must have looked at her funny, because she looked at me as if to say, "What the heck are you looking at?" and kept walking in. As I watched her, she looked over, saw the urinals, then looked back at me, then looked back at the urinals, then back at me and said, "Oh Sh..t", and quickly walked out.

January 16, 2015 05:56PM

How hysterical! !

January 16, 2015 08:18PM

I have used the mens' room when there is a long wait for the womens' bathroom. One woman will stand outside the door while the rest of us use the bathroom.

January 17, 2015 03:10AM

I would probably use the men,s room to especialy like at a Fast Food restaurant they only have one stall in most places not fair for Women

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