Strange old ladies
I was at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. It was pretty quiet, and the bathroom was entirely empty apart from myself. So there were approximately 19 open, perfectly clean and and tidy stalls, and one stall occupied by me. I hear the bathroom door open, and someone entered the washroom. A few seconds later, I see two feet under the toilet door, shod in shoes could only be worn by someone over the age of 60. She starts pounding on the door of my stall and rattling it like she was trying to get in. I said "This stall is occupied!" but her attempts to gain entrance continued. I kept trying to indicate that someone was in the stall , and she kept trying to get in anyway. This continued for several minutes before she seemed to get the hint and used one of the other 19 unoccupied stalls. I have no idea why she was so adamant about using that stall. Her favourite one? Or was it some attempt at geriatric sexual assult? Who knows? I legged it at soon as I heard her enter another stall, so I never saw her face to face.
(BlackArmadillo Avoided writing that article on, Mon 5 Sep 2005, 3:49, Reply)