Have you ever accidentally wandered into the men’s?

[ParsleyFlakes]

I did today (sleep deprived) and the wall of overpoweringly concentrated old wee stench hit me in the face and jolted me out of my stupor, which is when I noticed things didn’t look quite right, namely the urinals. Ahh insomnia, you old bastard. The men’s was deserted btw, thank god.

Yes. In my defence I was in a tizz as I suspected I was pregnant, so I went out and bought a test, didn't want to wait until I got home as I needed to know so went into some public toilets. Didn't realise until I was leaving the toilets and a man was coming in.

Yes, I did this a couple of weeks ago. Sometimes in shops, pubs, etc, the 'ante room' area leading to each of the toilets and also back into the main shop floor, is quite disorientating. I took a wrong turn when leaving the women's toilet and entered a (very clean and respectable looking) men's toilet with a slightly startled looking man, luckily fully zipped and not mid-wee. I apologised like mad and ran away. I hope he understood how accidental my intrusion into his privacy was.

That’s so stupid of them. It should have been “Lassies” for the women in that case.

And yep I’ve accidentally gone into the men’s loos only to make a swift exit as the stench of piss hit me.

Yes. I did it a community hall at the weekend. Been going to this community hall for over 18rs.

Totally bemused when I walked into the toilets to find urinals. Was convinced they'd swapped over the toilets. But they haven't.

I also went into wrong loos at a car park in the Lakes. My eldest child was waiting outside. I didn't twig at the smell or urinals. There was a baby changing unit - i thunk persuaded my head I was in the right place.

Went in a cubicle and some men came in. I had to stay until they'd finished. Not brazen enough to walk out whilst they were in mid-wee.
My child was crying laughing when I eventually reappeared.

Several times, and also been in to clean when working in a hotel. I actually don't think they smelled worse than the ladies, but then we cleaned thoroughly and threw in urinal cakes.

Women's loos can smell worse than anything the day before the sanitary bins are collected.

There's a pub we go to when we visit London and down in the basement there were 3 sets of toilets. 1 for the Gents, and the other two were ladies. We were back there last year, and I wandered into the larger of the two ladies toilets as I am used to doing. Oh my the STENCH... It was utterly disgusting. On leaving, I looked up at the sign on the door, and they had changed that particular toilet to unisex. So this is what we have to look forward to in the future I fear.

Once in a pub with very minimal and confusing signage where the ladies were round the corner from the mens, which had the door open so missed the sign on it and must've assumed they were unisex until I saw the urinals. Fortunately they were empty.
I also did the waiting to see who came out in a restaurant/bar foreign country (with a non Latin alphabet)as there were no pictures and while I had an (admittedly very rudimentary grasp) of the language the signs didn't match any word I know. I assume it said something similar to the Laddies above, but seemed a bit short sighted somewhere that was likely to get a lot of tourists.

Yes, especially in theatres.

Yes, DSis and I did when we were chatting too much to notice. We realised when the smell hit us and quickly left - causing a woman going into the female toilets to do a double take and then head into the men’s. We had to tell her it was us who’d been in the wrong toilets, not her. She looked very

My friend got very drunk one night.
Went off to the loo and having looked at the person in a dress and the person in trousers figured as she was wearing trousers that's the signage she would follow.
Still makes me chuckle.

Yes, it utterly ponged!!

Yes I used the mens toilet, but intentionally. It was years ago when I was younger, and not too concerned about certain things. The queue for the ladies was so long, and I noticed that the same could not be said for the mens. I peeked a look inside, and saw that not only was it empty, but they had closed cubicles as well. So I just went ahead, and used it. Would I do that now....probably not😄.

Yes in the shard a few years ago, I thought they were very ‘advanced’ in terms of having uni-sex loos until I realised I was a bit tipsy and had wandered into the mens…it’s the urine stench that gets me too 😖

Yes, several times whilst on holiday in France. Luckily I couldn't understand what they were saying as I hurried out & found the ladies.

Yes. Was in Tesco with a friend and she went into the ladies, I waited outside in the corridor. After a few minutes I went in and shouted "Have you fallen asleep in there?" then spotted a urinal and quickly backed out. A man came out a minute later and I avoided eye contact. 😳

Yes . They stank and made me gag . Luckily there was no one stood at a urinal.

Yes at work, didn't have my glasses on and male and female icons very similar! I got some very strange looks on the way out😲😂

I have had to rescue my elderly father from the Ladies as he doesn't understand the hieroglyphs anymore. I have also spent a lot of time loitering outside men's loos trying to spot him as he gets very disorientated and can't find his way out. He now uses disabled loos wherever possible, but I hover still.

Yep. But the smell alerted me.

Some men are fine, but many others seem unable to aim.

Several times, the most memorable were a museum in Amsterdam, a cafe in Haworth and an amusement arcade in Blackpool. I have no sense of direction but that's really no excuse.

On my hen night some 20 years ago I was in a bar in London and very very drunk. I went to the loo and was faced with 2 doors, neither of which had the usual male/female sign or name on, it was something obscure like bucks/does or something similar.

Well I chose the wrong one obviously. I was incredibly drunk and very sick.

My husband to be had to come and collect me, lying on the floor covered in others piss and my own vomit!!! He took me home and showered me off firstly with my clothes on and then without.

Luckily he still married me!! 😂😂

Yes, I was politely set straight by a man on his way out. I was very apologetic!

The worst-smelling loos I've ever been to (apart from festivals) were the girls' toilets in a secondary school. Unbearable.