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agonyaunt2022-10-04 05:06 pm
ermingarden) wrote in agonyaunt2022-10-04 05:06 pm
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Miss Manners: Odd Restroom Behavior
Dear Miss Manners: I was in a bathroom stall, using the toilet. Enter a person wanting to know what stall I’m in.
I replied, “What?” Person then asks again. I sternly said, “At the end!”
Presuming that this person is not someone to whom you said “I’ll be right back” 45 minutes ago, Miss Manners is as puzzled as you.
We will have to guess the reason for the question. You could ask, of course, but surely this is not a conversation you want to prolong.
If there is a next time, try, “There are empty stalls toward the front.” Or silence, with the excuse that as you were unseen, the question might have been addressed to someone else.
I replied, “What?” Person then asks again. I sternly said, “At the end!”
Presuming that this person is not someone to whom you said “I’ll be right back” 45 minutes ago, Miss Manners is as puzzled as you.
We will have to guess the reason for the question. You could ask, of course, but surely this is not a conversation you want to prolong.
If there is a next time, try, “There are empty stalls toward the front.” Or silence, with the excuse that as you were unseen, the question might have been addressed to someone else.
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Perhaps the questioner was having gastrointestinal distress and wanted to avoid being too close to someone – but then, why draw attention to oneself? Or perhaps the questioner has a shy bladder – but wouldn't they still know LW could hear them?
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Like this strikes me as an unusual question but not a super-weird one, peering under stalls to see which ones are occupied is not unusual but it does always seem weird (And this person may have been less able than most to peer under stalls.)
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(Reading it again, maybe they knew the person asking? And that would possibly remove this scenario, but still, what a fucking weird interaction.)
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