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I have done something childish and I don't care

307 replies

DorisLessingsCat · 31/08/2023 18:27

End of week 2 holidaying in a remote French village, in a small campsite.

There is one toilet block building but the cubicles inside are marked dames / hommes, so there is sex segregation.

For the whole time I've been here the same bloke has been using the Dames side. Not because the hommes side was full, just because he wanted to (I did ask in my bad French the 3rd time I encountered him coming out of the women's and he did le shrug and he said something about les dames est plus propre).

Anyway, I have been mildly annoyed at this. Today when I saw him close the door on his Dames shower cubicle I took his flip flops from outside of the door and threw them in the hedge behind the toilet block. I might have had some vin rouge prior to the incident.

(Also, the owners do not care in case anyone says I should have taken it through Proper Channels.)

AIBU?

OP posts:
TheClitterati · 31/08/2023 19:58

DorisLessingsCat · 31/08/2023 19:52

@TheClitterati (or should that be LaClitterati) there is le signe which says les chausseurs sont interdits in the shower cubicles, hence I have been able to monitor his giant footwear outside the ladies's showers most days. Making me seethe. He is actually quite a small man, very hairy except for the top of his head, with comically large feet, definitely not to be mistaken for a ladies' shoe.

He sounds so gross.

TheClitterati · 31/08/2023 19:59

Ilovemydog2 · 31/08/2023 19:57

Bravo for calling out his Petit Pénis Energie!

Indeed 😂😂

LyricalGangsta · 31/08/2023 19:59

GrandHighPoohbah · 31/08/2023 19:20

You must be sure to return le shrug when he asks you about les flip flops.

And this comment : 👌🏻😂

Hollyppp · 31/08/2023 20:01

Love it! CF can F off

itsgettingweird · 31/08/2023 20:02

I was laughing at Phillipe Phloppe

But my sides .....

It just get funnier every time I read it and I've now got tears and stitch 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

LaviniasBigBloomers · 31/08/2023 20:04

I hope you're practising le shrug. All together now, hands spread, slight shoulder up and down, this face Hmm et 'Boof. Je m'excuse m'sieur Philop, mais je pense votre thongs perdu est sans le arbre, n'est ce pas?'

SerafinasGoose · 31/08/2023 20:04

'A la Recherche du Tongs Perdu?'

I'll get me coat.

OP - formidable!

PuntasticUsername · 31/08/2023 20:06

And this is on a campsite, right?

It all sounds pretty...

...in-tents.

YANBU OP BTW

Motherofalittledragon · 31/08/2023 20:08

Haha nice one! 😂

Paq · 31/08/2023 20:09

LaviniasBigBloomers · 31/08/2023 20:04

I hope you're practising le shrug. All together now, hands spread, slight shoulder up and down, this face Hmm et 'Boof. Je m'excuse m'sieur Philop, mais je pense votre thongs perdu est sans le arbre, n'est ce pas?'

😁 you have captured my mangled French excellently.

This afternoon I told the waiter that they were lost, I meant that I had lost my bill when the wind blew it off our table on le terrace sud.

Readers, it was for deux verres de vin rouge.

WestwardHo1 · 31/08/2023 20:10

Oh chapeau madame!

VeronicaSawyer89 · 31/08/2023 20:16

Viviennemary · 31/08/2023 19:05

Just mean IMHO. Only on MN is it such an issue. It's a loo not a changing room.

It's a shower block. Do you normally shower fully clothed?

WestwardHo1 · 31/08/2023 20:17

DorisLessingsCat · 31/08/2023 18:53

Last week I did share the universal older-female language with a Dutch woman of similar age while we queued for a shower and he waltzed out, chest hair glistening. Since then I have paid close attention to the size of footwear outside the cubicle and have felt my outrage just about stir each time I see his oversized shoes outside the women's. Today I broke.

Wheezing at "chest hair glistening" 😂

ArabeIIaScott · 31/08/2023 20:19

'He is actually quite a small man, very hairy except for the top of his head, with comically large feet,'

I'm picturing him right now.

I have done something childish and I don't care
momonpurpose · 31/08/2023 20:19

Naominumbers · 31/08/2023 18:29

I'm all for drunken shenanigans. Well done, OP.

Me too good for you! 👏

Makinguseofthethingsthatwefind · 31/08/2023 20:19

🤭

ArabeIIaScott · 31/08/2023 20:20

Also have any de les enfants got any spares you could leave as replacements?

I have done something childish and I don't care
Canthave2manycats · 31/08/2023 20:24

Was hoping he might have un autre paire, so you could also dispatch them demain!!!

Teentaxidriver · 31/08/2023 20:24

You have made my day.

imed · 31/08/2023 20:25

Funniest thread for ages!
Can't stop picturing this hilarious scenario😂
Well done OP!

Teentaxidriver · 31/08/2023 20:25

Nick anything else of his that you can get your hands on and "hide" in the same hedge.

IamnotSethRogan · 31/08/2023 20:25

tu n'es pas déraisonnable

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 31/08/2023 20:28

That is pretty funny to be fair OP

AnneValentine · 31/08/2023 20:30

Love it.

AlwaysFoldingWashing · 31/08/2023 20:33

Omg this is amazing!!!! Well played