This happened to me earlier today, but now I finally have a chance to type it out. I (26M) drive semi trucks for a living. Usually when it comes to stopping to use the restroom, I like using rest areas during the day and truck stops at night. I mainly do this because at night, I can park at the truck stop pumps and at rest areas there’s more open parking spaces. My FU began when I passed a truck stop driving through New Mexico and told myself “ehh the urge to go to the bathroom is there, but it’s not dire, so I’ll just hold it in.”

BOY was I wrong. About 10 minutes later, my bowls started talking shit and needed relief IMMEDIATELY. The thing about New Mexico is that gas stations, let alone truck stops, are few and far in between. The next rest area wasn’t for another 20 miles. Later, I see the exit for a rest area and yeet it off the freeway and sprint to the bathroom. While handling my business, I heard what seemed to be another person relieving themselves in the stall next to me, but it sounded kind of feminine. Later I see through the crack between the stall door and the wall a woman walk towards the exit of the bathroom. Then it hits me.

It dawned on me that in my dash to the bathroom, I must’ve failed to notice the sign and gone into the women’s bathroom instead of the men’s room. Now I had a dilemma. If I leave the restroom at that moment, I run the risk another lady walking in the same time I’m trying to leave and being branded a pervert. But also if I do nothing, someone else might walk into the restroom causing me to have to wait even longer until I know the coast is clear to make my escape. Luckily, when I finally said “fuck it” and decided to leave I was the only person in the vicinity. I was back to my rig, recovered from my mini heart attack and just drove off into the horizon.

TL;DR ALWAYS trust your gut feeling, even if you think you know better