Today, I really had to go to the bathroom. Due to my fear of public restrooms, I made sure it was clear before I started. I heard someone sigh halfway through. Embarrassed, I waited a full ten minutes before leaving the stall, only to see that it was only the automatic air freshener. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, despite my fear of using public restrooms, I was forced to anyway to avoid my bladder exploding. I was finally getting over it when someone stuck their head under the stall to "see if someone's in there". I'm scared more now than I was before. FML
Today, I had no choice but to use a public bathroom. I have issues going when there are others in the stalls, and apparently another person did as well. We both sat there in silence, waiting stubbornly for the other to give up and leave so we could go. It’s been 20 minutes. FML
Today, my coworker friend told me she was going to the restroom. Soon after, I did the same. Once in the stall, I could smell a stench emanating from the next one. I yelled, "Ew, you stinky bitch" and sprayed air freshener under the partition. As I left the stall, my friend walked into the restroom. FML
Today, I had to use a public bathroom. I have problems going when other people are there, so I waited until everyone left. Two girls noticed I was taking a long time, and started giggling and throwing notes under the door asking if I was alive. This continued for half an hour. FML
Today, I was at a gas station and I went to the bathroom. Thinking some was already in the bathroom, I waited for ten minutes while people lined up behind me only to find out that it was empty. FML
Today, I got stuck for a while in a hallway between two security doors due to a malfunction. I'm not claustrophobic, but I sure am sensitive to horrifying smells coming from a nearby bathroom stall. FML
Today, I desperately needed to pee, so I decided to confront my anxiety issues and use a public toilet. I opened the lid, only to see several huge, rancid floaters staring back at me. I had an attack, started sobbing, and pissed myself on the way home. Never again. FML
Today, I needed to take a dump at school. As soon as I sat down, somebody else walked in. I'm extremely poop-shy, so I was forced to wait for several minutes while they styled their hair and applied makeup. After they left, I breathed a sigh of relief. Then someone else walked in. FML
Today, I was at a new shopping mall. After an hour, I desperately needed to use the bathroom. Spotting one, I ran inside, locked myself in a cubicle and relieved myself. The toilet paper was out so I knocked on the cubicle beside me to ask for some. A lady's voice answered. She needed some too. FML
Today, while at work I went to use the public restroom because I had a severe case of diarrhea. All went well until the timed sensor lights went off and I couldn't leave my stall to get them back on. I sat there for thirty minutes in pure darkness. FML
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iAmScrubs 19
I've seen the same thing before in Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Except, in that case, the air freshener was carrying a chainsaw and it was chopping everyone's heads off. OP, you were right to wait inside the stall. Air Fresheners are very dangerous.
adropofpeace 8
My sympathies are with you. However it still makes me laugh that you'd sit there for 10 minutes without leaving.
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Comments (141)
MikalaHart 4
The people that would be in the restroom wouldn't care about you going to the bathroom... I mean they are in there taking care of the same business.
JenL_fml 7
All I could get was that you are scared of portapotties(sp?)... Everyone should fear those. They can flip over! o.o
fadingfaith 4
I hate portapotties they are the worst of public restrooms. They smell so terrible, but I never thought they could flip over... Now that would be the scariest shit ever.
XXizzlerXX 0
Portapotties are gross! they never clean the insides! .. one time I was in a portapottie and I saw a frog an a hive in it :0
Alexzmoo 5
That thing always sprats my eyes.
Tcaret300 12
spratting? is that like spray-********??
angryoriental 0
wow... all the crap in the world and your afraid of making doo doo in public. fyl
Imrussian24 2
I have the same fear. well it's not that I am afraid of them, more that I just can't pee in public restrooms unless I absolutely have to. I get nervous :( so I feel ya OP.
andrewjw 0
i have the same problem. lol i need an empty bathroom to pee.
DjeePee 25
To pee? I knew that a lot of people, myself included, have it difficult to take a shit in a public restroom, but peeing, that's new.
fadingfaith 4
I used to be like this, but now I can pee with people there 'cause I know they're doing the same thing. I won't do number 2 in a public bathroom. It just seems wrong....
ambermary101 6
How does a dryer in the bathroom sound like a person sighing..
txgirl2013 14
.....it was an air freshener... you know that thing that attempts to make the air smell good?
MoNercy 10
Some of the automated ones emit small sprays every half hour or so. That small spray does sound like someone breathing out. I think the OP meant that kind of sigh, not the heavy sigh that people make when their sad.
perdix 31
I know that feeling. The first time I was in a bathroom with that automatic air freshener, I thought some dude in one of the other stalls was jerking off!
fadingfaith 4
LOL!!!
dixieboo 0
An air freshener sounds like a person sighing?
perdix 31
Yeah, it does. It's creepy.
haileerenee14 4
that's what I said! it makes a squirting noise! unless you guys squirt when you sigh...
vexis58 1
The one at my workplace sounds like a robot sneezing.
ambermary101 6
oops I mean air freshener
Tcaret300 12
no offense, but your profile pic looks like a jacked version of Justin bieber..
nerdsgetmehot 23
Next time you think that someone heard you pee/defecate, just own it. Walk out of that stall like a supermodel. It's a bathroom, after all; every pees and poos.
bengermin 5
You're gorgeous, in case you didn't know. Also, OP, just wear adult diapers. Then no one has to know, and you can avoid public bathrooms altogether, haha.
igoteffed 0
OMG everybody does? No way! I must research this. I would have never guessed!