# Stupid bathroom incident of the day. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 16, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930 "2016-05-16T19:41:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/21 "2016-05-17T06:03:54Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > As of right now, we’ve only had a handful of issues and Target has about 1800 stores in the US. Probably not needed yet, but maybe something they should think about, especially if it becomes a bigger issue. About 1400 of those stores have what they call ‘family restrooms’ – a small, individual bathroom for a person of any gender, possibly with a baby or minor children with them. You know, like the bathroom in your house. And they are trying to add them to the rest of their stores, where the structure allows it. ---
**Author:** ![Zyanthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Zyanthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyanthia)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/22 "2016-05-17T07:29:34Z")
[Bathroom Cop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYU6z0d_erY) training has started. You too can become a bathroom cop. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/23 "2016-05-17T12:29:06Z")
> [@China\_Guy](#): > > Someone looking not appropriate for the Ladies would have had me politely saying my girls are in there. How do you judge if someone can use the ladies room simply by look alone? Seems weird to say that in a thread lambasting a guy for doing just that. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/24 "2016-05-17T14:08:15Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > How do you judge if someone can use the ladies room simply by look alone? Seems weird to say that in a thread lambasting a guy for doing just that. Only seems weird to me if **China Guy** had done any lambasting, or if the issue has _ever_ been “anything goes, pee wherever you want.” He hasn’t, and it ain’t. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/25 "2016-05-17T14:31:40Z")
I once went into the two stall ladies room at the local library and as I was using the facilities, I realized the other stall was being used by a man. I finished what I was doing, and as I was washing my hands the man came out. “Is this the ladies room?” he asked. Having a flash of total inspiration, I went and opened the inner door and held it open while I opened the outer door and looked at the sign on the front. “Yep” I replied. He walked out without washing his hands. I found the incident incredibly funny. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/26 "2016-05-17T14:34:48Z")
Regardless of all of the ridiculousness I just came in to say that Buck Angel is pretty attractive. I guess that makes me a PREE-VERT. ---
**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/27 "2016-05-17T14:45:27Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Your confusion results because this really has nothing whatsoever to do with “protecting the children”. > > The secondary purpose is to ensure that those who are different should stay the hell out of public sight, where the bigoted might be offended by their very presence. > > The primary purpose is to drive the rubes to the polls, in the hopes that they will reliably pull the “R” lever, despite the clown at the top of the ticket, and the other politicians who are screwing them over. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I live in NC, and this is 101% true down to the last period. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/28 "2016-05-17T15:12:37Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Only seems weird to me if **China Guy** had done any lambasting, or if the issue has _ever_ been “anything goes, pee wherever you want.” He hasn’t, and it ain’t. Not sure where I said China Guy was lambasting anyone, can you point it out? He said he doesn’t understand the paranoia. Maybe the paranoia comes from parents with the attitude of “Someone looking not appropriate for the Ladies would have had me politely saying my girls are in there” ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/29 "2016-05-17T15:29:56Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Your confusion results because this really has nothing whatsoever to do with “protecting the children”. > > The secondary purpose is to ensure that those who are different should stay the hell out of public sight, where the bigoted might be offended by their very presence. > > The primary purpose is to drive the rubes to the polls, in the hopes that they will reliably pull the “R” lever, despite the clown at the top of the ticket, and the other politicians who are screwing them over. Yep. Gay marriage as a ballot issue is over for them to gin up the outrage, so they’ve got to come up with something else. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/30 "2016-05-17T16:30:48Z")
Not to inject race into it was well, but this weekend at a 5k (heh) I (male) was in line to use the men’s room and there were women in both lines, using both the men’s and women’s room. No damage seems to have occurred. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/31 "2016-05-17T17:24:10Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Not sure where I said China Guy was lambasting anyone, can you point it out? No shit you didn’t. Since he didn’t lambaste anyone, and you know he didn’t, it’s not at all weird that he should say what he did. > [@](#): > > He said he doesn’t understand the paranoia. Maybe the paranoia comes from parents with the attitude of “Someone looking not appropriate for the Ladies would have had me politely saying my girls are in there” Anyone becoming paranoid at something that innocuous deserves ridicule. I have no idea what you’re getting at. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/32 "2016-05-17T17:35:24Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Anyone becoming paranoid at something that innocuous deserves ridicule. I have no idea what you’re getting at. I honestly have no clue what you are talking about. Nor, I suspect, do you. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/33 "2016-05-17T18:05:26Z")
Fair enough. I’ll do you the courtesy of continuing to assume _you_ know what you’re talking about, even when I can’t figure it out. ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/34 "2016-05-17T18:52:30Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > Being in Chicago, I doubt I’ll witness this crap happening here. But if I do, you can bet if I’m there and some self-righteous blowhard follows _anyone_ into a ladies room I’m occupying, will get a faceload of my pepper gel and he can explain himself to the cops. While we’re waiting, he can listen to _me_ giving a piece of my mind about _him_ being the perv. No matter who he thought he was following, he went into the ladies room! How am I supposed to believe that wasn’t a ruse in the first place?? I was already in there and he barged in on ME. You’d pepper spray a guy going into the womens bathroom? North Carolina is that way, bigot! -----\> 😉 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/35 "2016-05-17T19:08:06Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Fair enough. I’ll do you the courtesy of continuing to assume _you_ know what you’re talking about, even when I can’t figure it out. And I shall do the same! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/36 "2016-05-17T19:21:03Z")
I can’t swear that this is true, but it is believable. > **[The horrifying experience in a Target bathroom that I won't soon forget](https://www.sheknows.com/living/articles/1120615/target-bathroom/)** > > Target bathrooms just got a lot more awkward, but not because of transgender people. > [@](#): > > I was alone in the restroom. There were two large handicap-access stalls, complete with baby-changing tables, and two regular stalls. I headed all the way down to the farthest single stall, up against the wall, and I sat down to take care of business. > … > The outer door opened, and someone came in. She walked past the three open stalls and stood directly in front of my door. Then she leaned over and placed her eye firmly up against the gap between the door and the frame and stared in at me. > > I am not making this up. And let me tell you, it was awkward. Bizarre, even. This wasn’t a case of someone hoping all those occupied stalls aren’t really occupied. Mine was the only stall that was occupied. She deliberately stopped and stared in at me. > … > “Sorry about that,” she said. “But you know, Target lets men and homosexuals use just any bathroom now. I was making sure you were a woman.” ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/37 "2016-05-17T19:24:40Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > I can’t swear that this is true, but it is believable. > [Using a Target bathroom got really uncomfortable really fast](http://www.sheknows.com/living/articles/1120615/target-bathroom) And that’s why you should always carry a pencil into the restroom. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/38 "2016-05-17T19:28:46Z")
Just to clarify. I’m a father and my kid is alone in the bathroom with me standing watch outside the door. You’ll see that replicate by a lot of parents in a lot of places. I don’t care what one’s perceived gender is, but if something pings papa bear radar that you just might be a threat to my little girl (you’re drunk, high, acting inappropriately, look like a male wanna be rapist looking for kiddie victims in a public bathroom, etc,) I will do something to make sure my girl is safe. Hopefully, I’ll be polite, and non offensive. My point being that the conservative dog whistles about little kids being at risk in the bathroom. Little kids always have \*some \*risk in a public bathroom, and most of the time you’ll see a parent just outside the door keeping watch in case there is need for intervention. We don’t live in a perfect world, and there are perverts and predators that parents should be watching out for instead of making stupid laws (that incidentally want to discriminate beyond the bathroom in the case of NC). ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/39 "2016-05-17T19:29:49Z")
[Idiots driving to EVERY Target in Minnesota, protesting their bathroom policy](http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/05/16/flush-target-anti-target-campaign-hits-the-road-opposing-bathroom-policy/). I wonder how long it will take for the truck to be completely defaced? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/40 "2016-05-17T19:56:40Z")
> [@](#): > > “Sorry about that,” she said. “But you know, Target lets men and homosexuals use just any bathroom now. I was making sure you were a woman.” Why would homosexuals want to use our bathrooms? I bet the homosexual room is _amazing_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930.md?page=3)