This Tuesday, I had a meeting at the Google offices in San Francisco. It felt a little like I had been summoned to the internet principal’s office, but I knew I wasn’t in trouble so I wasn’t too worried. I was there to talk to a member of Google+’s marketing team. I learned about Google+’s Hangout On Air Feature and it’s possible I’ll be hanging out on-air quite soon, but this post isn’t about that. This post is about how my visit turned into a funny embarrassing story.
I was very engaged during the meeting, until I realized that I needed to use the restroom. I looked at my host and blurted, “I have to pee.” She graciously showed me the way to the hallway where the restrooms are located. The short hallway has two restroom doors at the end of it. I rushed into the restroom and there between the diaper changing station and the bathroom stalls were some urinals and I thought: Wow, Google is really progressive; they have urinals in the women’s room.
Keep in mind the offices are in San Francisco where I live. My reasoning went along the lines of: the urinals must be there for transgender people or women who like to pee standing up (‘cause I’ve heard some women have really good aim). I was already in the stall pulling my chonies down when it occurred to me that maybe just maybe I was in the men’s room. I decided I better check before doing my business and sure enough I was in the men’s restroom.
No one was in the restroom while I was there so I could have kept the story to myself and no one would be the wiser, but I’m not one to keep my idiocies to myself (hence the blog). In the end, Google may or may not be progressive, but if you Google “dork” a picture of me will come up. Probably not on the first page, but still. And just to make sure it does: Unknown Mami is a dork!
I liked the story. I had a similar experience last week. I was at the main office of the bank in Tegucigalpa, and I had similar urges. A guard gave me a key to the “nice” bathroom, wherein I interrupted a man midstream at the urinal. Why did he give me THAT key?
Maybe the guard has a wicked sense of humor. I’m just glad there was no one in there when I went it.
LOL!! You’re not a dork. You just needed to pee.
Love you , miss you, hope you are well.
LOL!
I hadn’t heard about Google’s Hangout On Air feature. But as usual, you’re a trandsetter!
Would just typing Unknown Mami Is A Dork in your comment box help your google SEO algorithm or would I need to type “Unknown Mami Is A Dork” to bump it up higher in the searches?
I don’t know, but it looks like you covered both options.
I love how you describe google: internet principal’s office. LOL. Love it.
Also, Google is pretty progressive when it comes to rights for the LGBT community in its workforce. 🙂
Very funny! It is hard to tell anymore with restrooms even when they have signs/pictures…especially those. Thanks for stopping by and saying hello at my place!!
LOL… I have done the exact same thing, only as I was already in a cubicle having a pee when I realised my mistake (2 guys came in and they were talking)… so I had to stay in there hiding until they had left! Soooooo embarassing!
Inner Chick is a Dork, too.
You have company… Xx
heehee thank god you didn’t come out to a man using the urinal!
I did that in Target once!!
crap. that’s MiMi not Macey! LOL
I like all the thought you put into convincing yourself that you must be in the right restroom. Glad all ended well 🙂
Hey Claudya! Heh, this was charming. But look on the bright side; you raised a frown at worst. Had I been found in the ladies’, I’d have been arrested. ;> Indigo x
Lol! opps! That is funny that you first thought it was just a progressive bathroom. Glad no one was in there
You. Are. Hysterical.
xoxo jj
That’s hilarious!!! I would LOVE to just visit google!
Have you seen that crazy contraption that allows women to pee standing up? I’m being serious. It’s totally crazy. So maybe you weren’t all that far off.;)
That happened to me on Friday. Sort of. I walked into what I thought was the ladies room and three drunk girls asked me to take their picture in front of the urinals.
I did the same thing at Brett Favre’s Steakhouse, in Green Bay. I was in the stall when I heard this splashing sound, and I was all like, “WTH?” Only when I came out did I notice urinals (and rushed out, calling out “Sorry!!” Too funny. Let me know when you Hang out! I’ll happily join in if I’m free.