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Grouchy Zombie

Saturday, July 11th, 2009 | iRate Chick blogs | No Comments

You know you’re tired when you walk into the men’s restroom by accident, not once but twice. My 3am shift has me walking around like a zombie and in a bad mood all the time. Four months into the job and I still haven’t gotten used to the lack of sleep.

Both incidents happened at restaurants. At least when I walked into the men’s restroom the first time, I noticed the urinals right away and stopped in my tracks. Thank god there was no one using those urinals – hello! You would think I would check twice after that but no.

The next time on a Friday night at a Japanese restaurant, not only was I running on empty on snooze hours but I was starving and our friends were running half an hour late. One thing everyone knows about me is that when I’m hungry – feed me or get your head bitten off.

So with an empty stomach and zombie-like state, I went to the restroom. I walked straight into the stall and went about my business as usual. I was washing my hands when a tween boy walked in, stopped, looked at me, checked the sign outside the door and proceeded into the stall. I was thinking why is this boy coming into the women’s restroom and from the mirror watched his movement into the stall. That’s when I saw the urinals (cue the horror music) and I ran out of there so fast I nearly tripped over myself. How did I miss those horribly-looking urinals twice? The rest of the night I avoided running into that boy in the restaurant thinking either a) he told his siblings and parents and they were busy laughing or b) he was too embarrassed to mention it. Hopefully he went with option B.

I was horrified that whole night but thinking back, it was pretty funny. I’m just glad it was a boy and not a grown man who walked in. He would’ve pointed it out and that would have probably been my most embarrassing moment.

I’ve learned my lesson and think twice before walking into a public restroom. If now I can only master the bad mood part.

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