Dear Human Resources representative, I apologize that I made that mistake. It was a solar flare that disrupted the earth’s magnetic field and thereby slightly altering my sense of north and south. I have already checked with NOAA and have the data to prove as much.
That’s the only excuse I have for walking into the woman’s bathroom. Either that or I am just a total tool with ADD and a poor grasp on spacial recognition.
As noted before, I always look for a urinal as I enter the room just to make sure it is the right bathroom. I know myself well enough to guard against these mistakes. I walked in, looked to my left and saw mirrors and sinks, aww shit. Until now I had dodged this bullet for a year, my track record was unblemished.
I looked across the room as I slowly backed out and saw you exiting a stall, I was just waiting for you to scream and throw a fit. You shocked me with your coolness and the way that you said ” I think one of us is in the wrong room” without missing a beat. I answered back “Well that machine is selling tampons so I think it’s me”.
I bid you good day and walked back to my desk where a half dozen of my co-workers saw me walk in and wanted to query me about why I would do such a thing. I chose not to tell them that I am absent minded and just made a mistake instead I told the I was fed up with woman’s lib and if they wanted to be treated like a man I was gonna use their bathroom.
Ladies, I am sorry that I breached the perimeter of your sanctum sanctorum, I meant no harm.
Thank you for being cool and funny about it.
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I am scarred for life from going into the men’s room in a Luby’s in Victoria, TX when I was 7 years old. Now — still! — I almost always check to make doubly sure I’m headed into the right room.
I am so lucky that the woman in the room was cool.
What they don’t make tampons for men? Surely they do..
There are: Manpons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZo0dQlAgD8
I’ve used many a mens room back in my younger days. Hell, I had no shame..drinking plus small bladder plus too many women in line and there was no way I wasn’t using the nearly empty mens room. Hey, at least I never peed in the urinal!!
Then you have not truly lived and I pity you!
Shit! Our secret is out! The women’s bathrooms are ALWAYS better than the men’s. And here you people thought you were running things.
muahahahah.
We want you to have a nice place to go when you get done birthing our babies, now get back in the kitchen!
Baha. The quick witted replied make this a treasure. Love it.
Ah, the horrors of the men’s public bathroom. Pee on the floor, those smells, and many other unmentionable things. I’ll happily admit I’ve used the ladies room on occasion – when it was empty, of course.
Personally, *I* am okay with it, but I WAS looking forward to this article due to the title…aint nobody eighties kicks it like the group that sings that song!
Good luck and God bless!
indeed!
That’s all right. My wife yesterday went to the bathroom at the office (small office) — with the door open. Luckily, bathroom was in corner, but still. She thought she was at home (no kids, only us and a cat).
I walked into the same bathroom a cpl months earlier. Luckily I didn’t run into an women in there. I did stare at the tampon machine for a good 5-6 seconds before realizing what it was, and then let out a yelp and ran out.
@Beardo, that the exactly proper thing to do, God bless you!
once, when I was head over heels in love, I was in a twitter-pated haze and wandered into the men’s room in WALMART! just la-dee-dah, look at that in-love woman in that mirror…what is that kid looking at, and why is there a urinal in the ladies room? la-dee-daaah I’m in love…I’m in…I’m in THE MEN’S ROOM! aagh!
no polar shift, no excuse…just some extremely high-hearted warm fuzzies filling up the space in my head where I let out the air…
Glad you admit it, I knew women do it as well.
I would love to switch the signs on the doors just once to see people get confused when they walk in.