# If an establishment is serving food and drink....

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 21, 2011, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-establishment-is-serving-food-and-drink/579208 "2011-04-21T10:02:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-establishment-is-serving-food-and-drink/579208/21 "2011-04-25T01:10:39Z")

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> [@Moirai](#):
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> US resident here (CA)- when I was pregnant and seemed to be going pee more than a dozen times a day, I was horrified to be told by a sit-down restaurant at the end of a pier that they had no bathroom, and that I needed to waddle back down the pier to the public restroom on the beach! :eek: If the waitress hadn’t relented and let me use the employee toilet, I would have peed myself halfway back to the public restroom (it was the Balboa pier- about 100 yds long?).

I usually say that I have diabetes and it often works. I actually do have it, and often have to pee on an emergency basis. I wouldn’t recommend using that one too often though. Sooner or later establishments will figure out that they’re being gamed.

To turn away a pregnant woman–whether or not they know that pregnant women are pee machines: Sheesh.

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