Sorry this one is fella specific (no offense ladycats), maybe the next social situation puzzler will be more gender neutral.
Here's the scenario:
You walk into restroom with two urinals and two stalls. Both urinals are currently occupied, and one stall is being "aggressively" used. For background: you personally have no issues with using the restroom in front of company, so its not that. Do you loiter in the back and wait until the urinals are empty or do you head to the stall?
The risk in heading to the stall is that the current urinal users finish up and leave before you do and then someone else comes in and sees empty urinals and a weirdo who used the stall to urinate. Do you want people to think you are scared to use the urinal? What if they also think you are the one stinking up the room?
Waiting is also bad, because what happens if someone else comes in and sees an empty stall? Do they think you just don't see it? Maybe they think you're some weirdo? What if they don't want to cut in line? Would you have to explain why you didn't take the stall? That's going to be very awkward, and probably make you look crazy.
The third option is to just turn around and leave, but you just know someone will think you are strange for doing that as well, and think you have a shy bladder or something.
Maddening.
Here's the scenario:
You walk into restroom with two urinals and two stalls. Both urinals are currently occupied, and one stall is being "aggressively" used. For background: you personally have no issues with using the restroom in front of company, so its not that. Do you loiter in the back and wait until the urinals are empty or do you head to the stall?
The risk in heading to the stall is that the current urinal users finish up and leave before you do and then someone else comes in and sees empty urinals and a weirdo who used the stall to urinate. Do you want people to think you are scared to use the urinal? What if they also think you are the one stinking up the room?
Waiting is also bad, because what happens if someone else comes in and sees an empty stall? Do they think you just don't see it? Maybe they think you're some weirdo? What if they don't want to cut in line? Would you have to explain why you didn't take the stall? That's going to be very awkward, and probably make you look crazy.
The third option is to just turn around and leave, but you just know someone will think you are strange for doing that as well, and think you have a shy bladder or something.
Maddening.
