Trapped in a bathroom

This really freaked me out at the time, but I think it's funny now so I'm sharing.....

I never use toilets except my own, but today I had to go. I had food poisoning or something, it wasn't going to wait. This is the one time I use a toilet and there's a cleaner there. I'm a guy, the cleaner's a woman, so that made it difficult to go in anyway.
I walked around for 10 minutes, checking the toilet. She's still there, but I have to go by now. It can't be held any longer. So I go in. I'm feeling totally ashamed. But I find she isn't cleaning anyway, she's talking on her phone!!

Then she start's talking about ME to her friend on the phone!!! Because I'm here doing a poo, and apparently it smells really bad. Well they tend to. So now I can't discretely finish, and leave. I have to wait for her to leave first.
But she isn't cleaning.

Then after I've been there for 30 minutes waiting for her to leave, she starts banging on the door of the cubicle and shouting "why are you taking so long, are you having fun in there".

How can I possibly reply???? How inappropriate is that!
This goes on for a while. Water is flicked over the door (I hope it was water). Part of me wants to kick the door down and flush her and her phone down the toilet. But I can't do anything.
Eventually a load of guys come in because it's approaching lunch time, I hear her leave, and I'm out of there in 10 seconds as I'm worried she's gone to fetch someone.

Any normal person would probably just forced it out and made a massive noise and smell, and not cared. A normal person would have returned her rudeness and told her to go F herself. But I couldn't. All I could do is hide.
I don't have a fight / flight response. I have a hedgehog response.

Wow this is funny in an odd way. :lol:

I know how mortified you must have been at the time though, I've had similar experiences. Not within bathrooms, but similar times where I have felt trapped and all I could do was wait it out and just go dead inside for the time being.

But yeah, that person's behavior sounds unbelievably rude, I mean it truly sounds unreal, and while a person without SA would think you were crazy for not doing something about it, I completely understand your actions.

I've felt the paralyzation too when I'm trapped in a situation, and there's nothing you can do, no matter how rude the person is. I can't even express it right now in writing, but believe me, I've felt it. The only way I kept myself concious in these situations is to just go into my head and just almost depart from reality until it was over.

That experience sounds totally awful. The cleaner sounds horrible and indeed rude.

I often hide in the bathroom, I don't like coming out of the stall when others are around. I think it links to what my confidence is for the day, because sometimes its fine. Over the last few years though, I have spent a LOT of time hiding in the bathroom. Its the only place where you can spend time and be hidden in a 4 walled cubicle, its brilliant lol.

I attended a private school a few years back (I ended up hating it; enter social phobia) and found myself in the bathroom more than anywhere else in the entire school. I would bring my lunch in there and eat it b/c i couldn't face sitting in the caf alone and having people sit with me out of pity (outgoing kids that were all fake-chummy with the teachers and teacher-mentors), sat in a cubicle and read because I had nothing to do in between classes (everyone arrived late, in obnoxious packs). Indeed, it was nice that there were 2 washrooms to hide in.

What a piece of work that woman is.....I think I would have yelled at her..."I think I have food poisoning...so if you don't mind...could you leave me the hell alone".... she's a sorry excuse for a person if you ask me.

What a bitch! You should have let out an especially loud poo when she was banging on your door that would have shut her up.

Hence the name "volcano"?

Haha... this is what you say "Hey bitch! Get the fuck out a' here! Im taking fucking shit! Fuck!!!! I probably wouldnt have said that but I probably would of said something like "Quit bitch" in a very non- intimidating way. I love the word "bitch". Im kinda like the same as you. When I get pissed, I kinda just go into my shell

I can't believe how rude this cleaner was. Maybe I'm being a bit too suspicious here, but are you sure that she just wanted to clean the toilets? She sounded a little too impatient to get you out.

At least it's good that you can laugh about it now though.