I was at a mall I rarely go to, and needed to use the restroom and relieve my bowels.\u00c2\u00a0 So I hurried up some escalators, and into the restroom.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I was alone in the room, and there\u00c2\u00a0was something a bit off\u00c2\u00a0that I could not quite put my finger on, but I did not dwell on it.<\/p>\n
Sitting in the stalls, I became annoyed by the voice of someone who had walked in, talking on a cell-phone.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a whiny, teenage girl’s voice, seemed typical of a sort.\u00c2\u00a0 For a second I dwelled on that, and then\u00c2\u00a0something more profound\u00c2\u00a0hit me: whiny teenage girl<\/i>.<\/p>\n
I sat there, embarrassed, thinking if I wait just long enough I could make a gracious and unnoticed break.\u00c2\u00a0 I noticed under the stall a woman linger in front of my stall, and my hyper-conciousness imagined her looking askew at my worn shoes — nothing particularly notable about them, but I can’t imagine a woman wearing them.<\/p>\n
I knew there was a woman standing in the sink area, and I knew that there would be no gracious exit.\u00c2\u00a0 So I just upped and ran, figuring that from a distance I’ve been identified as female before (long hair), so perhaps I’ll be fine.<\/p>\n
I\u00c2\u00a0sped from the inoffensive light pink walls of the woman’s room to the inoffensive light blue walls of the men’s room to wash my hands.\u00c2\u00a0 And it was there that I identified the “bit off” of my restroom experience.\u00c2\u00a0 As well the fact that there were more stalls in the ladies’ room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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