I accidentally went into the women's restroom today!

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So, I go to two different Planet Fitness gyms.

One has the women's restroom, a water fountain and the men's restroom. The other has the men's restroom, the water fountain and the women's restroom. Since I most frequently go to the one that has the men's restroom the farthest away I went into that one today. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why they had taken the urinals out so I just just visited one of the stalls. I then realized as I was leaving that I had gone into the women's restroom!

I happened to be very lucky that I was the only one in there at the time. When I walked out there was one guy that looked at me strange but that's all that happened.

Not sure why I felt the need to share this but I thought it was funny and is a great illustration of learned behavior. I am always willing to laugh at myself for being an idiot!
 

It happened to me once at work.

The office building where I was located had toilets in the same location on each floor but for some reason the ladies room and men’s room swapped locations on some floors.

In the 70s I worked in an old office building with only a men’s room on our floor and someone got the bright idea to make it into a unisex bathroom with a windmill on the outer door that you were supposed to flip as you entered to indicate gender. That was a comical fail.

IMO we take all of this too seriously when you consider that most of us grew up sharing bathrooms and learned how to manage at a very young age.
 
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IMO we take all of this too seriously when you consider that most of us grew up sharing bathrooms and learned how to manage at a very young age.
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Too seriously is exactly right, although many men are unaware of the ladies monthly periods and the disposables that are required to deal with them, so it's for the better that a lady's dignity remains in tact. Segregated toilets retain that dignity.

The other function that many get distressed about is that we all need to poop, but for some, as my wife described, when she worked as a paramedic, are different to the rest of us in that they never do that sort of thing. Teepee, Teepees is the name that ambulance crews gave such people. Teepee teepee, when shortened to an acronym is T.P.T.P. In other words: Too Posh To Poop!
 
Not an idiot at all Doug. That happened to me a few years ago at Costco. I was in the (one) Costco that I hate. Popped in to pick up a few items because we had been at Walmart, which is right across the street. That Costco is set up different than either of the others (there are three relatively close to us) and I get confused every time I've shopped there.

The restrooms do not have doors on them that with the women/men icons, but they're off to the side. I went to the side that I go to in the other Costcos, not paying enough attention I guess. I did not see urinals at all, so they must be in private stalls. When I came out to wash my hands, there was a man at the sink. He looked at me as if nothing was wrong, bless his heart. I hurried up and washed my hands so I could get out of there before another man came in. :oops:
 
seadoug said:
So, I go to two different Planet Fitness gyms.

One has the women's restroom, a water fountain and the men's restroom. The other has the men's restroom, the water fountain and the women's restroom. Since I most frequently go to the one that has the men's restroom the farthest away I went into that one today. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why they had taken the urinals out so I just just visited one of the stalls. I then realized as I was leaving that I had gone into the women's restroom!

I happened to be very lucky that I was the only one in there at the time. When I walked out there was one guy that looked at me strange but that's all that happened.

Not sure why I felt the need to share this but I thought it was funny and is a great illustration of learned behavior. I am always willing to laugh at myself for being an idiot!
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He probably thought you were one of those guys that identify as a woman and was afraid to say anything. :D

Ive shamelessly used the mens room in the past. It seemed like every time the husband and I would go to an event there would be a line around the block for the womens but no waiting at the mens. So I convinced the other ladies to switch lines with me and we staged a take over. :D
 
Coming off a flight, a friend and I ran for the rest room. We each went into a stall. When I came out to wash my hands a couple of men had come in.
It took me a second to realize I was in the men's room. I called to my friend "back out slowly, we're in the wrong place" The men started laughing. She came out and we high tailed out.
 
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Yup, been there done that! More than once in fact! 🤣🤣

More recently I entered the men’s restroom on purpose because I had to take Ron for a follow up doctor’s appointment, and while we were waiting to be seen he had to use the restroom. It was just a couple weeks after his accident, he was in pain, balance was shot, he was in the wheelchair that he couldn’t maneuver well, so off we go to the bathroom, together.

I couldn’t decide at first whether to use the men’s or the women’s, I was going to have to go all the way into the stall with him because he couldn’t manage on his own. Decided on the men’s, no one in there going in, but just as he was finishing I heard the door open so I called out that I was in the stall with my husband and we were about to come out.

The very sweet man was waiting patiently, helped us with the door and wished us luck as we left.
 
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I did this very same thing last month when DD and I went for lunch at a pub we'd never been to...
before going into the dining room we checked out where the toilets were..they were in the hallways facing each other...

half way through lunch when i went to use the loo I turned right into the loo instead of left...and realised as I walked in and saw all the urinals I was in the wrong toilet.. so started to back out, and there was a 6 foot bloke right behind me , and he said... quote'' I almost said something to you, but then I thought I don't dare these days '''

... and we both burst out laughing..:D
 
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That is really funny, Seadoug! I think we are moving toward getting rid of the separate restrooms anyway. Make them all unisex, and for one person at a time, like on a plane (or in your home). I don't really understand why we still have those archaic separate group restrooms anyway. Aside from maybe teenage girls, women don't usually stand around in there fixing their hair and gossiping. Most women, as well as men, go in there for the usual reasons, wash their hands and get out of there as quickly as possible.
 
When I took my daughter to college orientation years ago I accidently walked into the women's restroom. In my defense men's and ladies were next to each other and the doors were propped open. Funny thing is there were several girls in there and my first thought was "Oh, unisex bathroom", then I thought "huh, no stand up urinals, must be a privacy thing". Only after all that did the alarm bells starts ringing in my head and I knew I f***ed up.
 
I've done that probably a dozen times unintentionally and at least a dozen times on purpose.

Every time it was accidental, men have been very chill about it. I just wandered into the wrong room. When intentional, it was due to monstrous lines at the ladies room, longer than my IBS could endure. My husband or one of my sons would check that the urinals were clear, then scoot me into a stall. They'd wait outside the stall until I was ready to come out and give me an all-clear when the urinals were empty and walk me back out.

Men are VERY chill about this - much more so than many women would be, I'd wager. They smile if they realize it was accidental and nod in sympathy when it was clearly intentional. One time little boy exclaimed to his father, "Daddy, a LADY just came out of that stall!" His dad replied, "I bet she really, really had to go! Did you see the line at the Ladies room?"

On an aside, I'm faster than greased lightning in a restroom stall and particularly so when there's a line. Can't understand why so many women take literal minutes in a stall getting on the toilet peeing, then pulling up their pants and freeing it up for the next person.

If you need to reorganize your clothing, do it OUTSIDE the stall so someone else can use the toilet!
 
I was looking for the book section in a huge unfamiliar department store in Downtown Chicago. This was 60 years ago. It may have been Marshall Fields. The occasional "you are here" signs were somewhat helpful, but I had adopted a high speed approach, because the store was so huge. At one point I found myself passing through an odd section of the store that had lots of mirrors along the walls with seats and desks in front of them. There were a few women sitting there adjusting their hats, or whatever. It struck me as slightly odd, but there were so many departments in the store, that I was just focused on passing through it.

The next section turned out to be an apparent dead end. I found myself among toilet stalls and wash basins. Maybe some other things too, but it dawned on me that this must be a rest room. There may have been a woman or two standing there. I can't really remember. Then I had a second dawning, "Women's restroom!" I turned and walked out as fast as I walked in. On my way out all the women at their mirrors, were all staring at me wide eyed and horrified, but I was out of there and into another department in seconds.
 
I was in Italy once when a group of young German women off a bus decided the only way to get back on the bus in time for departure was to mob the men’s room. Since most European restrooms have true water closets that protect privacy very well, it was not an issue. Until some of them at the communal sinks, sweating and hot, decided to disrobe from the waist up to cool off with a quick paper towel bath. Of course, being a gentleman, I decided that when in Rome I would enjoy the Roman customs.
 
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