Being walked in on while using the bathroom has always been a fear of mine. When at other people's houses I routinely put something else in front of the door just in case... Most of the time this will do nothing but alert me that someone is coming but I like to think it's helpful.
You can imagine my look of terror when I was once at a Park n Ride and the lady who had the keys to the bathrooms informed me that the lock was broken. I had been "holding it" through a 6 hour shift at work because the bathrooms were out of order that day and still had an hour long bus ride home.
"Go ahead and go. I'll keep watch on the door." she assured me. I was reluctant and terrified but a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do. I trusted a total stranger and questioned it the entire time.
I proceeded into the bathroom and placed the garbage can in front of the door. "How could she possibly warn someone in time? She has a job to do... Someone could walk in while she's not paying attention..." These were all the thoughts running through my head.
I washed my hands removed the trash can and walked away. Suddenly it occurred to me that I had left my bag in the bathroom. I immediately turned around and walked into the bathroom to find that in that split second while walking away someone else had gone into the bathroom.
"Noooooo!!!" In a high pitched voice was yelled followed by laughter. All I saw when I walked in was the look of a terrified woman who's face was begging for me to leave as soon as humanly possible. So I turned around and left.
She brought my purse out with her and handed it to me laughing. "I never wished for a working door lock as much as I did just now." I laughed and apologized and thanked God for the lesson I learned that day - that even when you've worked a six hour shift needing to use the bathroom, you should probably just "hold it" anyways...
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