This post is a nod to the awkwardness of being the first in line for a one person bathroom.
You know, when you go up to the door and find that it is locked, and you need to decide if you are going to wait there until the user is finished and exits, or if you are going to go back to your seat (or some other distant locale) and wait it out? I wonder why it feels so awkward to wait there by the door when the bathroom is in a public place.
Above and beyond that is when the bathroom is a multi-user bathroom (for example, two urinals and a stall) and you go into the invariably tiny room and find all commodes currently in use. Somehow, it seems like no matter where you stand or how you occupy your time (such that you do not to look directly at any of the current occupants), you always seem to be unreasonably close to all the people doing their business at the same time. Or, you have to decide to leave the room altogether and try to come back when it’s not so busy.
Awkward man strikes again.
Public bathrooms are inherently awkward. Awkward is also kind of awkward with its two w’s.
On Thursday of last week, I had this exact experience.
I was in a restaurant/bar in Trenton, NJ. The only other patron in the place was my friend. Yet when I found the bathroom door locked, I was embarrassed. Why is that?!? The only person who might have seen it was my friend.
Oh, Awkward Man, you are awkward!