So the other day the family and I were waiting in a Burger King parking lot for my parents. Anybody else singing the Humpty Dance right about now?
Anyway way, we were planning to meet up with my 'rents so they could just ride with us to dinner. We were a little early so I went inside to use the bathroom. OK now you gotta be singing The Humpty Dance right?
As I was going into the men's room I spotted an older gentleman, maybe late fifties early sixties coming out of the women's restroom. Now if you've never read this story of my uncool moment, I urge you to go there now and read it. If you've already read it, then you know that sometimes this happens to the best of us. So I wasn't terrible disturbed by the old guy coming out of the wrong bathroom. It was what I heard following that got me going.
As we crossed paths I heard two voices. Two voices of young girls already in the bathroom. My mind raced. I heard the old man ask if he was in the wrong room, and the girls respond that indeed he was, so I quickly finished my business so I could investigate.
I walked to the dining area where the old man was sitting by himself eating. A young Mexican couple with a baby sat to my left. No other customers, and only a few employees within sight. I wasn't sure what to do, or even if there was something to do. So I head out the door and back to my family. As I walk the ten feet across the parking lot again my thoughts turn to those two girls in the restroom. Maybe it was nothing, but what if...
The fear in my head as I walk tries to convince me that it was nothing. Nothing weird was going on, or was about to go on. Just keep going like you didn't see anything. But the adult in me says you gotta go back and be sure. Damn, being an adult sucks sometimes.
I wasn't sure what I was going to do if something funny had been going on. I'm not an action hero, I don't pack heat like Bruce Willis or Clint Eastwood, and truth be told I get gassy when I'm nervous. But still I walked back into the BK looking for answers.
When I walked inside I did what every calm, cool, collected, gentlemen would do who was about to face off with another man like it was high noon. I grabbed my phone and looked busy.....
OK so I wasn't exactly calling people punks and telling them to make my day, but I was there. I stood there in the front of that restaurant incognito until those two girls walked out of the restroom. I had to make sure that what I saw was in fact just an Uncool Moment and not more.
Well, long story short the girls walked out of the bathroom giggling and acting like two normal 12 year old girls would. They returned to the table where their grandpa was sitting, still laughing and being silly, and I walked out of there more like Barney Fife, than John McClane.
J-Tony
So, tell me Lifers. What would you do? Did I over react? Would you have walked away or stuck around?
Anyway way, we were planning to meet up with my 'rents so they could just ride with us to dinner. We were a little early so I went inside to use the bathroom. OK now you gotta be singing The Humpty Dance right?
As I was going into the men's room I spotted an older gentleman, maybe late fifties early sixties coming out of the women's restroom. Now if you've never read this story of my uncool moment, I urge you to go there now and read it. If you've already read it, then you know that sometimes this happens to the best of us. So I wasn't terrible disturbed by the old guy coming out of the wrong bathroom. It was what I heard following that got me going.
As we crossed paths I heard two voices. Two voices of young girls already in the bathroom. My mind raced. I heard the old man ask if he was in the wrong room, and the girls respond that indeed he was, so I quickly finished my business so I could investigate.
I walked to the dining area where the old man was sitting by himself eating. A young Mexican couple with a baby sat to my left. No other customers, and only a few employees within sight. I wasn't sure what to do, or even if there was something to do. So I head out the door and back to my family. As I walk the ten feet across the parking lot again my thoughts turn to those two girls in the restroom. Maybe it was nothing, but what if...
The fear in my head as I walk tries to convince me that it was nothing. Nothing weird was going on, or was about to go on. Just keep going like you didn't see anything. But the adult in me says you gotta go back and be sure. Damn, being an adult sucks sometimes.
I wasn't sure what I was going to do if something funny had been going on. I'm not an action hero, I don't pack heat like Bruce Willis or Clint Eastwood, and truth be told I get gassy when I'm nervous. But still I walked back into the BK looking for answers.
When I walked inside I did what every calm, cool, collected, gentlemen would do who was about to face off with another man like it was high noon. I grabbed my phone and looked busy.....
OK so I wasn't exactly calling people punks and telling them to make my day, but I was there. I stood there in the front of that restaurant incognito until those two girls walked out of the restroom. I had to make sure that what I saw was in fact just an Uncool Moment and not more.
Well, long story short the girls walked out of the bathroom giggling and acting like two normal 12 year old girls would. They returned to the table where their grandpa was sitting, still laughing and being silly, and I walked out of there more like Barney Fife, than John McClane.
J-Tony
So, tell me Lifers. What would you do? Did I over react? Would you have walked away or stuck around?
You did what any good man would do!!!!! Unfortunately, we can never be too careful or safe these days and I know you would appreciate anyone doing the same had it been your two daughters in there. Go Jay!
ReplyDeleteThanks Amy. I may have been a little irrational, but hey you never know.
ReplyDeleteI think you handled it right. Two against one, some noise would have been made. Way to be Johnny-On-The-Spot.
ReplyDeleteThanks Coffeypot. I would have hated to put the smack down on somebody.
DeleteYou're so good! You played it just right! Going in guns blazing would have been your second uncool moment. Way to avoid that! ;-) But standing by at the ready was definitely cool! Good job!
ReplyDeleteThanks MND. Guns ablazin would have been bad. But I would have made the 6 o'clock news. So that would have been cool. :)
DeleteSadly, you didn't overreact. And I'm glad to hear that there are people like you in the world to go back and check - just to make sure - or worse, to be there if it had been bad. Good for you - and as a parent myself, thanks for checking into it!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you would have done the same as a parent. Thanks.
DeleteIt scares me a little that I wouldn't have even thought to check. I would've just assumed that he hit the wrong door...confused...it DOES happen. Although, the others are right. This day and age you can not be too careful. So relieved to know there are people out there like you! If it would've been my daughter, I would be so grateful you'd thought to investigate!
ReplyDeleteAnywhere...anytime....anything can happen.
Ducky, You're so right. I'd like think that there are others out there that would do the same though. Thanks for the kind words.
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