+183 It sucks when you've never been to a restaurant before and have to go to the bathroom. You don't know if it's a one-person use or multi-person use bathroom so you never know if you should knock or not. If you don't knock, it might be a single use bathroom and you could walk in on someone taking a piss. If you knock, it could be a multi-person use bathroom and it would be embarrassing that you knocked on the door of a bathroom with 3 toilets and 2 urinals, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Or you could just pull on the handle to see if it's locked or not.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You could but some of those old restaurants don't have locks on their door. I follow the rule, if has a nob, its single use. If it has one of those metal rectangle things and you have to push to open the door, it's multi use. I just posted this to see if anyone ever thinks whether they should knock or not.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What if it's a women's restroom? I'd be concerned of there were urinals in a women's.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

haha i have no experience with the womens' bathrooms of restaurants so I don't know if the same situation applies.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If it's a single use, there is an ordinary toilet like at home and a sink. If it's multi-person, then it has a row of stalls, at least one plu a handicapped one.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This is really over-thinking it, but I like it. Also, it's really fucking awkward when you go into a bathroom with two urinals and there's already a guy there, or worse, three urinals and the only free one is in between, and you don't know whether to take it, or just use a stall, or just to stand there awkward and pretend you're washing your hands or picking at your teeth in the mirror til one of them is finished.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

10 gold start to anyone who read this entire post without succumbing to boredom. I know I sure didn't.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Can you get gold starts at walmart?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What. I've literally never had this problem, nor have I even thought of it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I walked in on a single bathroom once while some guy was taking a shit. I didn't feel bad though because he didn't lock the friggen door.

by Anonymous 12 years ago