Every time I’m in an unfamiliar toilet I plan an escape route

[DowntonScabby]

AIBU to think that every time I enter an unfamiliar toilet I automatically start planning an escape route in case I get trapped?

Sometimes I think I could slide under the door, other times I reckon I could hoist myself over the door and through the wedge at the top. In other toilets I’m completely trapped and my only escape is a vent in the ceiling and I start to panic.

Am I the only one who thinks like this?!

Honestly, this has never crossed my mind.

I guess I’ve always assumed that if I did get trapped in one somehow, I’d be able to get someone else to alert the emergency services before things get desperate.

Lifts are more scary because you’re essentially dangling above a drop in a box.

Although those doors on train toilets worry me for different reasons. I have a friend who tells the tale of the time she accidentally opened the (very slowly moving) automatic door on someone having a shit every time train travel comes up in conversation.

I do too, the completely sealed ones freak me out

And thinking about it, I read a Stephen King short story once where a man plotted to murder his rival by trapping him in a portaloo. That was a grim scenario. I won’t say how the story ended in case it spoils the story for anyone who hasn’t read it.

It was in the Just After Sunset collection of stories IIRC.

Once at one of my cleaning job houses I got locked in the bathroom.. Nobody in so not sure why I locked the door!! Luckily I had my phone (and a magazine) in my bag. Rang ds who happens to be a window cleaner (big ladder!) - who came and climbed in tiny window with a screwdriver and got the door open!!.
Never lock the door at work now!!

I once witnessed a dramatic escape from a toilet.

I was in A&E and there were 2 policemen who had a guy in custody.
He asked to use the toilet and the police waited outside (single cubicle type). After
quite a while the police became concerned and broke into the cubicle only to be confronted with a missing tile from the false ceiling. They searched high and low but there was no sign of their prisoner anywhere.

At least we had a bit of entertainment during the 6 hour wait.

And.... did they find him?! Or is he still wondering through the hospital vents all these years later!

Ha ha, was about to say I do this too OP!

Then noticed the adverts I am getting on this thread!

Only if I was Anne Parillaud and had been sent in there by Tcheky Karyo. That bit where she finds the window bricked up always shits me up.

I got locked in a toilet for ages in a bar in Greece once (malfunctioning lock) and I STILL don't do this!