to as(s)certain?!....PSA: if you use your bathroom @ work, please for the love of gawd.....

[NewtonMP2100]

.....double/triple check that it is locked when you use it.....walking in on a co-worker who forgot to lock the door is a trauma that you will never recover from.....


.....awkward glances....averted eyes......changing subject while talking......the image of that co-worker on the porcelain throne will be forever burned in your memory.....

[lost in space]

I walked in on one of my professors in college. Our relationship was never same after that.

[GGD]

Yet we've managed to survive with a row of urinals all these years.

[wurm]

Especially so if it's a unisex restroom. Walked in on a middle-aged woman many years ago, which elicited a scream. Never saw her again after that. I think she quit. And walked in on a boss standing at the commode a time after that. I do remember shortly after that there were signs reminding folks to be sure the door is locked when you're in there.

[mrbigstuff]

In any public restroom I always knock and open the door slowly.

[gadje]

mrbigstuff wrote:
In any public restroom I always knock and open the door slowly.

This, it surprised me people don't know this basic procedure. Even at home I knock when I enter the teenager's bathroom to get towels or shampoo from the closed in their bathroom.

In fact I gently knock when I enter any bathroom. Unless I WFH and I know I am alone in the entire house.

[$tevie]

I use the cautious approach myself.

However, my work restroom trauma happened years ago when one of my coworkers began pounding on the door and hollering that the boss is looking for you! the boss is looking for you! the boss is looking for you! the boss is looking for you! the boss is looking for you! the boss is looking for you!
I yelled back Go tell him I'm in the bathroom, for God's sake.

[cbelt3]

I traumatized coworkers by passing a kidney stone at work in the men’s room and screeeeammming in agony. When I walked out , ashen faced, I was met with an EMT and several worried coworkers….

“Are you all right ?”

“Kidney stone.”

Everyone winced at the same time. I went back and sat gingerly at my desk and sobbed in relief for a bit.

[pqrst]

And then there is that moment in relationships, when you see your beloved sitting on the can. That is a test of your love.