My IBS!!!!!!!!!!! And new supposedly automatic door on the toilets
I'm in the supermarket, with my trolley full of shopping, when the dreaded IBS kicks in and I HAVE to use the toilet. But I hold on and I struggle to the counter and load all my stuff on there and pay for it, in agony - all because I don't want the embarrassment of having to abandon my shopping trolley and run to the toilet. Fine balancing act there holding on in agony :inpain: and judging when you just HAVE to run and hope the worst doesn't happen on the way there.
Rush to toilets, I know the nearest disabled one. Get in there. It is a new door an automatic one, opens automatically then you press the button to lock it. So far so good. Relief :poop::poop: :joyful: :happy: , wash hands, dry them. Press green button to unlock door. NOTHING HAPPENS. The door does not open.
So I am stuck in disabled toilet :nailbiting:. No emergency button. I keep trying to press the open door button, nothing happens. I am too embarrassed to bang on the door as I am not disabled and people will see I used the disabled toilet. (Reason why I use the disabled toilet is a) I have a huge shopping trolley with me and b) It is nice and enclosed and private and when I have IBS I feel really embarrassed about using normal toilet where everyone else is exposed to disgusting noise and smell, and so I cannot use the toilet and end up still in agony).
I get my phone out and am trying to look up Westfield on the internet to get a number to phone the help desk to tell them I am locked in the toilets. Only trouble typing in phone and using it when I am so nervous. Tried to open door again, reached out for top and ended up pulling at a chord that then pulled out some wires. :wideeyed:SHIT I have broken the door even more.
At this point I start to bang on door because I am feeling trapped and need to get out NOW and a little old lady pushes at it and it opens. I come out, tell her the lock isn't working, she says "Oh well I'd better not use it then" and we walk to the lifts and I get lift up to my car. Luckily parking time had not gone over 3 hours and I didn't have to pay.