To be completely mortified that I accidentally used the men's toilets!

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My face is going red just writing this down

So today I was visiting family in an area I'm unfamiliar with. We went into M&S to have a coffee at the café. DD needed her nappy changed and I headed off to the toilets. I glanced at the door and saw the baby change sign.

I walked in and went over to the change table and whipped off DD's nappy and started changing it when a man around age 60 walked in. He looked at me and then headed to the massive row of urinals behind me that I had somehow not noticed! Even though the change table had a mirror next to me so they were so blatantly obvious! I had to just carry on changing the nappy (obviously as quickly as I could) and run back out of there! But I literally had this man urinating while I was straight across from him!!

Worst. Moment. Ever.

So mortified that I haven't told anyone IRL. Feeling deeply embarrassed and sorry for the poor man who probably didn't know what to do either!

Someone make me feel better please

Op! We’ve all used a blokes toilet! In my youth it was the only way to avoid wetting yourself cos the line for the ladies was ridiculous!
One thing tho, I’m surprised your nose didn’t tell you that you were in the wrong place straight away!🤢

It was a new store so didn't have that men's toilet stench yet

Been there, done that!

I think we've all done it. Last time I did it was because they'd redone the loos and swapped the position of the men's and ladies' but i walked in on autopilot. It was the smell that told me something was up, before I registered the bloke pissing in front of me.

You will survive. Trust me! Honestly don't see what's the big deal - you entered the wrong door, so what.

I did it in a club in my youth, and was so pissed I said to my friend “why are there a load of boys pissing in the ladies?!”. I looked waaaay sillier than you!

You should’ve told him you identified as a man, then accused him of transphobia .

Must just be me whose never done it!

Lost count of the number of times I've done it....some intentional and some not .

I did that today although I did stare at the urinals and the men and Turn around and go back out. I had my 3yo ds with me and hopefully they assumed that’s why I was in there 😆
Most annoying part is I paid 40p to go in then had to use the Change machine to get another 40p to use the ladies!

I went to a cafe once and had a nice meal. Unfortunately for me something upset my stomach and I suddenly felt that drop inside that means "Run now, or you'll need clean pants"
So I excused myself and went to drop a package in the delivery bowl.. if you catch my drift...
Well it was a bit of a pan gripper ass ripper, but I got done and felt much relief..
As I reached for the toilet roll I realised there was none.... Not even a tube..
What could I do?
Inreched behind me, flushed the toilet, waited for the clean water to fill the bowl. Once full I used my hand as a cup and washed my chocolate starfish.
This is not the end of the story...
Once rear end had been swilled I did up my trousers and washed my hands 3 times.. once for the bulk, 2nd the remainder, 3rd for a polish..
As I dried my hands at the airer another man came in, I made eye contact with him, nodded in the traditional manly man way of our forefathers and continued drying hands .. he went into the aforeinhabited cubicle.. my drier ended, I heard his splash down delivery success.. I left the bathroom..
Collected my things and left the cafe..
Not one did I warn him there was no paper.. and worse.. I didn't tell any cafe worker there was no paper.. I could have saved a fellow human the ordeal of "Crapier sans Papier" but I didn't... I am an awful person... I think of that man sometimes.. I think his name is Shanks.. Armitage Shanks..

Omg Klutzy 😂** that is absolutely hilarious!!!

On my expert mortification scale, this one gets 3 out of 10. So sleep well, OP

On my expert mortification scale, this one gets 3 out of 10. So sleep well, OP

Phew 😅

I've used the men's toilets loads of times. Never even gave it a second thought. They can deal.

Thanks for the sympathy.. lol.

It is all true as well.. inlegged it from that cafe out of sheer embarrassment.. I could have earned him.before he sat, I could have got him paper, I could have told the cafe employees.. but nope, I just ran away.. i did get a really sore bum for days after . Karma i reckon..

Meh. I once had a very kindly looking bloke physically guide me back out of the door and point me towards the ladies with a smile.

Sounds sinister in writing, but at the time it really didn't feel that way, he was just so... nice.

That really mortifies me looking back. There's something worse about knowing someone else saw you.

Self identify as male if anyone challenges you! It is allowed now for men to enter female toilets but why they would Q forever is beyond me!

I have done it too, especially at concerts and big events. If you can cope with dodgers out at the urinals the men are great and have a laugh and don't give a damn.

Oh god we’ve all been there. One of my offices has 4 floors, identical layout. Except unbeknownst to me, and for reasons that are not apparent, the toilets on the 2nd floor are reversed. My first morning working on that floor I walked straight into the men’s. Didn’t clock the urinals, or the fact there was no sanitary bin. It was only when I emerged from my cubicle and saw a rather shocked young man that I noticed. Luckily he found it funny, but I was mortified.

But who the bloody hell switches a standard layout on a single floor???

I walked into the men's toilets at a train station recently. I didn't actually look at the sign on the door, I just assumed they were the ladies because I knew the ladies toilets were there. Or, at least, they would have been had I not come out of a different exit than usual - they were actually on the other side.

I walked in, saw there were people facing the far wall and realised something was very wrong. Did an about turn. A kind man tried to give me directions to the ladies but I was too busy running away.

You're not alone, OP... Hope that makes you feel better!

I have had the opposite where I was in the ladies waiting to use the 1 toilet cubicle and another lady was in front of me in the q. We started talking as you do and the door opened and a man appeared. The lady told him (politely) it was a ladies toilet and the poor man nearly died a death there and then 😂😂🤦‍♀️

I've used a mens toilet a couple of times too with no dramas but I once did use a disabled loo at an aunt's care home (couldn't see any other!) and set off the alarm. I didn't realise what I'd done and left the cubicle before anyone came to assist me.

One page of a thread about public toilets and there's already two uneducated posters trying to turn it towards gender issues. Quelle surprise for mumsnet I suppose.

OP we've all done it! It's nothing to be mortified about honestly, if the person who walked in had been bothered he'd have waited until you were done. Your baby needed changing and you followed the baby change signs! I bet you're not the first and you won't be the last.

The last place I worked, on every floor of my building the ladies toilets are always always always ALWAYS on the left.

Except the toilets by the cafeteria.

You can imagine the rest.

People on here would be screaming the place down if a man used the ladies and no one on here would tell the woman they need to deal with it get over themselves.