A couple of months ago I told you about a dangerous encounter I had in the restroom at Home Depot. Interestingly enough, I had another bizarre occurance in a restroom...this time at Wal-Mart. I had just finished some of my Christmas shopping, feeling lost, homesick, and ready to assume the fetal position after wandering the isles of Wal-Mart wondering to myself if I was the only "normal" person in the store, when I decided I'd better use the restroom before the journey home. So I parked my cart, grabbed my bag of pruchases and walked into the restroom. There was a sign next to it that grabbed my attention, "No merchandise beyond this point". I figured I'd be okay since I just bought these items and they were now mine. Anyway, as I walked into the restroom I wondered to myself, "That's weird. I wonder where all of the urinals are?" I went ahead and used a toilet, no need to shut the stall door behind me since I wasn't going to be sitting, right? Finished my business, washed my hands, and was clapping my hands (strangely something I have never done before) under the hand dryer when a lady walked around the corner and gave me a very startled look and bolted back out of the restroom. And then... the light went on in my head... that was the reason there weren't any urinals. I hollered after the lady, "Wait, maybe I'm in the wrong one!"
The moral of the story; stay vigilent out there this holiday season. Pay attention to all of the signs...not just the ones with words on them...look at the pictures of stick figures too.
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Great story Adam. Glad I''m not the only one in the family who has gone into the wrong restroom!
However, Jason still takes the cake for the best restroom story--ask him at Christmas!
Mom
Something similar happened to me a couple of days ago too. I was too late to catch the subway back home, so I decided to stay over at one of the saunas in the city. It's inexpensive and relaxing.
There are three areas: sauna area for men, sauna area for women, and the communal area where families and friends hang out, watching TV, etc. After watching a movie in the communal area I wanted to go back to my locker in the men's area; but I accidentally walked into the ladies sauna.
I made a quick U-turn... At least one lady saw me; however, I think I got away with my mistake for being a foreigner, as she didn't scream and she didn't report the "pervert foreigner".
There were no stick figures, and the signs are all in a foreign language.
I love the Korean saunas. It doesn't bother me to hang out in those. I say that if everybody is nude, nobody is nude!
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