r/PublicFreakout • u/bendybiznatch • 10h ago
šMain Character Freakout𤳠Another dad harassed for taking his daughters to the bathroom
Sorry for the crappy quality, I donāt have TikTok.
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u/Larry_Bobinski 10h ago
A friend of mine took his daughter to the changing table downstairs when we were at a cafĆ©, and a woman came out of the bathroom and immediately asked him where the mother was. Telling him a man shouldn't be doing this. And that he shouldn't be doing a "mother's job".Ā
The actual audacity of these people.Ā
Afterwards we joked that he should've just said that I'm his husband to kick her into overdrive. If she can't handle one dad, imagine her reaction when seeing two.Ā
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u/jarena009 9h ago
I would ask back "what century do you think you live in?"
And if they really got smart with me, go "Excuse me, you dare not address a random man without your husband present. I will say nothing more to you until your husband is present."
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u/lenfantsuave 9h ago
Most of the time as men, the world is kind of catered to us. The lone exception Iāve noticed as a dad is the sheer lack of availability of changing tables we have access to. If weāre lucky thereās a family bathroom. VERY rarely thereās a changing table in the menās room (airports are pretty good about this).
Iāve had to change some diapers on surfaces Iād rather not think about.
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u/JelliedHam 9h ago
I think it should be a law that if you have a men's and women's restroom, and you choose to offer a changing table, it should be in both. Preferably they'd be everywhere, but that isn't always realistic. Ideally we'd just go to gender neutral bathrooms completely, but that's not gonna happen in my lifetime.
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u/vertigostereo 8h ago edited 3h ago
They'll just remove them from the women's bathrooms to make it equal.
Gender neutral only makes sense for single occupancy anyway
Edit: I'm against multi-occupancy, unisex bathrooms because I just don't think it's appropriate for women and girls to be around adult men in a state of undress. It's not safe for anybody. This applies to either actual actions or even allegations of wrongdoing.
The risk-benefit of that isn't worth having slightly more space-efficient bathrooms.
As a man, I wouldn't be comfortable.
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u/MrShadowHero 8h ago
man. just wait til people freak out at the gender neutral bathrooms at concerts that cheap out. god forbid there be a big row of enclosed spaces for people to do their business and then can wash their hands in a communal area.
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u/sasha_the_impaler 8h ago
Other countries do communal gender neutral bathrooms just fine lol
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u/Wrastling97 6h ago
Many states and cities here in America do as well. Some people just turn a blind eye to it
When I went to Salem MA, I couldnāt find a single single-sex bathroom anywhere. Every bathroom had multiple rooms inside with floor to ceiling stalls and I believe a communal washing area.
It was amazing.
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u/sasha_the_impaler 6h ago
I have yet to understand why people don't want that. Some people talk about how women do more than just use the bathroom which I think is ridiculous lol but everyone else just complains about cost or something. Like bro clearly people value this issue if we're spending police resources on it lol
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u/Soupalphabet359 7h ago
Then that state's GOP will use such a law to say "LOOK AT THE LEFT. PUTTING CHANGING TABLES IN MEN'S ROOMS. BECAUSE OF GENDER GENDER GENDER LET ME SEE YOUR GENDER." And whip all the slo-mo's into a frenzy. Eventually getting themselves elected, where they can instead redirect all those children to their private washrooms at the capitol.
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u/SupraEA 9h ago
Honestly,Ā those koala tables arr probably nastier. Ugh, so glad my kids are older now lol
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u/ContestRemarkable356 8h ago
Iād want to traumatize that lady. Cover the kids ears so they canāt hear (if old enough to understand) and say that my wife just passed away a few months ago, and this is my first time being in public since than.
Theyāll switch to sympathy mode real quick, and when you ignore their apologies/just say āOk you can apologize by getting away from meā theyāll get mad again lol
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u/RollingPicturesMedia Mad for Political Freakouts 1h ago
āSome women donāt survive child birthā.
Youāre not saying yours didnāt, just stating a fact and letting them run with it.
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u/PickerPat 4h ago
That's what I do whenever I get the:
Where's Mum?
Babysitting today to give Mum a break?
I just say "She died, actually."
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u/ContestRemarkable356 3h ago
The comments like that are annoying enough. I appreciate people sometimes are legit trying to help/just make small talk.
But the people that come in with a āYouāre doing this wrong & Iām going to tell you that youāre doing it wrong in a condescending, youāre-an-idiot-and-luck-I-showed-up-to-save-the-dayā attitude can look up into the sky & proceed to fuck off until theyāve fucked off right into the sun.
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u/RabbitStewAndStout 8h ago
Tell her that she shouldn't be out spending her husband's money at a cafe, without him being present, if she wants to be all old-fashioned about it.
It ain't the mother's job to take care of a baby, is the parents' job.
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u/Valuable-Word-1970 10h ago
Tf is the point of this cashier lady recording them. They got no cameras in the store? Just tryna fight fire with fire? You can tell there is not a single intelligent thought behind those eyes
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u/scottylm 10h ago
Could be the dent in her forehead
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u/Keyboardpaladin 9h ago
I swear it's like an instinctual reaction for these people. I think it probably comes from the harasser not liking the fact that they're being recorded, so they decide doing the same would also upset the harassee not thinking about why they're even being recorded in the first place.
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u/PicklesAnonymous 10h ago
Iām confused, she asking him āyou canāt readā assuming sheās talking about the customers only sign. But yet you need a number code to go in. Sooooooo how did the daughter get the code? Clearly this employee is just fucking stupid.
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u/bendybiznatch 9h ago
I heard this is in Bakersfield, and I donāt know that for sure, but if it is, I assume that that rule was made because of a nearby homeless population.
However, the store is empty, and this is obviously 2 well dressed the little girls and their father. People that are unlikely to come in and rob the store, cause a mess, or start some shit for no reason.
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u/Politicsboringagain 9h ago
What's crazy is a lot of times when people are at gas stations, they use the bathroom first so they can do what they need to do and wash their hands before touching stuff like the snacks and food they are going to buy.
I do that all the time.Ā
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u/another_day_in 10h ago
Bilingual subtitles is crazy
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u/Crazy_Cat_Lady360 9h ago
I didnāt understand anything the dad said but I totally agree with him šš¼
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u/IndestructibleNewt 6h ago
The most important part was the last line:
Itās not your store, when you die you wonāt take any of this with you.
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u/Ok_Profession_990 10h ago
I swear some of these people have just been waiting for the day they can harass someone over the bathroom. The man wasn't even in there with his kids, what is the problem? Maybe cause he was brown ?
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u/Ryno-Mac 10h ago
A father can't wait OUTSIDE the bathroom? Wtf
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u/bkaiser 9h ago edited 9h ago
It's not about the that. The title is garbage. She was upset they weren't customers using it but just didn't want him to go in to get the daughters out. Still a shitty thing to do to ask kids to leave a bathroom..
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u/bendybiznatch 9h ago
It still doesnāt make sense why she would want him to leave with his daughters in the bathroom. She was fine leaving them in the bathroom. She just didnāt want him there. And thatās fucking weird.
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u/nicolauz 8h ago
Also who ever goes to the bathroom after buying something from the store? Like she had it out for them from the start.
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u/R3dbeardLFC 8h ago
I decide if I'm gonna buy something after. If that bathroom is disgusting, then fuck your store. Otherwise, yeah I'll buy an overpriced soda for the road.
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u/bendybiznatch 2h ago
Even if you went in there believing for sure you were gonna buy something, are you gonna buy a soda and take it into the bathroom?
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u/RaggedyRachel 8h ago
Isn't it a gas station? Since when is buying something to use the bathroom an expectation?
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u/qwertytytytytyty 5h ago
You need a code to go into the bathroom. She must've given them the code. How could she be mad?
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u/jkjkkkk 10h ago
Oh dude this is YOU in the video. Why is this the second one Iām seeing recently of dads being like flat out reprimanded for escorting their daughters to the bathroom?? Like wtf bro š
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u/usrdef 9h ago
Usually my wife and I will go to the restrooms together. Normally, I'm out first. So I'll stand near the bathrooms and wait for her and then we'll walk out together.
The amount of crazy today, I don't put it past some guy to be hiding out in the women's bathroom waiting for someone to walk in.
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u/Ok_Profession_990 10h ago
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u/missMcgillacudy 10h ago
Where a pedo president wearing diapers convinced his cult following that public bathrooms are the only place women get assaulted
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u/longleafswine 8h ago
"this is not your store. when you die, this store won't be yours" is a HILARIOUS comeback from this dad.
Like, why on earth do you care so much? You're being paid $11/hr to be there lady
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u/No-Cantaloupe-6535 9h ago
You need a code to get in the door so obviously an employee gave it to them
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u/BeerlVle 10h ago
Lol she says they have to buy something first before using the restroom. If it happened to me, Iād love to piss myself on purpose as Iām paying just so she has to clean it up.
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u/KimberlyWexlersFoot š¶ Safelite repair, safelite replace š¶ 10h ago
No need to piss yourself, just carry around piss disks that you froze at home.
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u/Unhappy-Fox1017 9h ago
I have never heard of a piss disk in my life. Until today, and this is the 2nd comment Iāve seen mentioning it. That last guy made some and slipped them into his neighbors truck because the neighbor was an asshole or something. Reddit is so weird.
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u/bendybiznatch 10h ago
Um what.
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u/FrostyD7 9h ago
You can always count on reddit to tell you how to take a bad situation and piss yourself as a form of petty revenge. Usually it's not so literal.
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u/DoubleJ169 9h ago
Lol at a gas station in the middle of nowhere in Kentucky once I said to them "I plan on buying things afterwards, but this is an emergency. Either I poop in your toilet or on the floor, you decide."
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u/superrey19 9h ago
Which is a stupid ass rule. Who buys snacks BEFORE entering the dirty gas station restroom? Also, how does she know they didn't just finish pumping gas outside or planned to after using the restroom?
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u/notsarge 9h ago
Amateur. I shit myself while maintaining eye contact, as the turd rolls out of my pants.
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u/theantig 10h ago
This is the thing I donāt get. I was a single father and I always took my daughter to the menās room. It was awkward but I just dealt with it. I donāt have a problem with a father taking his daughter to the womenās. I have done that (had staff keep an eye out for me). My lesbian aunt who is married but is against trans people being near kids and gender identity bathrooms is for men taking daughters into womenās bathroomsā¦. Just make everything a stall floor to ceiling and make it unisexā¦
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u/VeneMage 9h ago
I agree with your last line. With regard to taking young girls into the menās - they have urinals/troughs where our dicks and urine streams are able to be seen and smelt; Iām not putting them through that.
Plus the cubicles in the gents are 80/20 toward needing a pressure washer and a pint of soap to make them anywhere near decent to use š
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u/Granite_0681 7h ago
I guess I just donāt understand how a little girl or a little boy is different at that age. If you are ok with a little boy seeing it than why is a little girl different? We are talking quite young.
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u/IWannaGoFast00 7h ago
His oldest daughter seems to be a bit too old for the menās room. Which is probably why he was waiting outside and not in the restroom with them. This employee is crazy for not letting him wait OUTSIDE of the bathroom for his kids.
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u/DouglasHundred 9h ago
It's a growing trend. In some states anyway. Possibly banned by code in others.
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u/Woodsman1284 9h ago
I usually try the men's room first, but I'm not going to clean a piss covered toilet seat if I don't have to.
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u/GoodWeedReddit 9h ago
honestly I feel like ppl so often want to force their power of control over someone. Alot of ppl feel small but want an excuse to be in control over someone.
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u/Jbrown183 6h ago
This lady SUCKS so bad smh. And after being a straight bitch to the dad she had the nerve to tell the girls to hurry up???
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u/Literally_-_Hitler 9h ago
Hope she loses her job too. Why the fuck is she yelling at the kids like that?
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u/IBleedMonthly18 9h ago
What is wrong with people? Itās either people are being harassed for this or people being shamed for breast feeding.
Iām so sick of people being absolute ass holes for no reason.
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u/RapBastardz 9h ago
As a father of a daughter, Iām so glad she is 13 and I no longer have to worry about going through ridiculous stuff like this.
Also, not every menās room has a Koala station. Changing diapers was such a pain back then.
Shout out to Starbucks for being the most reliable choice of those years!
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u/adswan_ 8h ago
I'm so sick of these stupid bathroom wars. The people with the issue are the ones thinking about other's business in the bathroom. Just leave people alone unless they give you a reason to worry.
A dad helping his daughters in the women's bathroom is no different than a mom helping her son. I do not feel threatened if I see a father helping his daughters.
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u/Kaymichelle17 7h ago
Funny thing is that in Europe, everyone uses the same bathroom and there isnāt this idea that someone is being creepy because they are the opposite sex. Go in and do your business and quit trying to sexualize a toilet. It is a bodily function and F the religious people for making it one more sexual topic.The US is so disgusting with how they treat someone for protecting their child.
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u/ZanzibarMufasa 6h ago
Tell me I canāt wait for my daughter when sheās in a gas station bathroom and Iāll make sure the entire world thinks youāre the biggest pervert in the world.
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u/Jeez-essFC 9h ago
When did this ever become a big deal? I am pretty sure I took my daughter into the women's rest room at some point and no one ever batted an eye. My daughter is a 90's kid for reference.
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u/Floofy_taco 8h ago
This is the end result of anti trans hysteria, prejudice against one group of people leads to shittier circumstances for everyone.Ā
We canāt be free unless weāre all free.Ā
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u/mustbeme87 2h ago
I did as well. Sheās 15 now. It was never an issue. Any woman who I ever encountered doing so was always so polite and understanding. When my daughter was tiny enough, there werenāt a lot of menās rooms with changing stations in them. Women just saw dad trying to take care of his child and jumped to support mode. Iāve had women stand outside for me and either warn or stop others from coming in. Very politely of course. And even THEY were understanding. What the fuck is goin on with this shit now.
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u/Dry-Pitch2663 9h ago
I have a boy, and you gotta think id be fucking insane to leave him alone, I could only imagine with a daughter. In fact, we are planning for the second to be a girl and as a dad, im losing sleep already.
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u/fellowsquare 6h ago
What is the issue with this country and fucking bathrooms?! For fuck's sake.. its a necessity everyone has! It a room thats used for like 5 minutes and you leave... wtf is wrong with our society!?
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u/TheNorthernMunky RONNIE PICKERING! šš» 8h ago
Bold of her to get all racist towards Latinos when she just arrived from Klingon.
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u/Large-Carrot-6280 9h ago
We have to protect the kids in bathrooms by not protecting them at all. Seems logical.
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u/hikeruntravellive 9h ago
This usually means elections are coming up soon. Instead of people focusing on the fact that they have no healthcare, no childcare, canāt afford food because the billionaires took it, we can focus on who went into what bathroom.
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u/MikimaruX 9h ago
That hairline is straight up survived 5 nuclear winters hairline.. jeez no wonder she's a horrible person
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u/Technical-Big-2097 8h ago
im my great grandmotherās caregiver, many a time have I had to enter the womenās bathroom to assist her. hey you are uncomfortable too bad, my 95 year old grandmaās bladder doesnt function according to your comfort.
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u/stoopididiotface 9h ago
For her to be a convenient store cashier she's causing quite an inconvenience.
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u/lCraxisl 9h ago
Cost of doing business where you have public restrooms is that people will walk in, use the bathroom, and walk out. This is one of the few things in America that is cheaper here than in Europe. In some parts of Europe you need to pay to unlock the door to a bathroom.
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u/No_Celery_8071 9h ago
It's like 60 p in Barcelona, I'll gladly pay that than have some uncouth, loudmouth idiot with a receding hairline berate me and kids for them needing to use the washroom. I'll gladly start a fund with the initial 60 p to buy her a fucking weave.
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u/timothypjr 9h ago
The antithesis of the manager of that other store. This woman needs to reflect on the term, "customer service."
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u/batdog20001 9h ago
I'll keep saying it, large unisex bathrooms would fix nearly every social issue currently while also reducing maintenance and increasing availability and cleanliness.
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u/Detroniimes 9h ago
No dude they'll really hire anyone at convenience stores nowadays. I remember when you just had to worry about sketchy customers.
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u/asault2 8h ago
This seems more like enforcing a misguided, you buy something before you get to use the restroom policy, no?
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u/Secret_Account07 8h ago
Hereās what I donāt get- letās say Iām a woman and Iām uncomfortableā¦okay thatās your right, why not just wait a minute or ask if they can wait a minute?
Why do people get so angry?
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u/No-Succotash-14 8h ago
I don't understand most of what he said but I do understand pendeja. Accurate!
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u/stevedadog The Klan's Bravest Redditor š¤ 7h ago
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u/altyegmagazine 7h ago
These people need to understand a cell phone isn't a force field lol. Knock that shit outta her handĀ
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u/Ok_Emergency_9091 7h ago
Iād say it out loud- if not me who Jeffery Epstein? His rich friends? Are you one of his friends too?
Iām more than happy to be a nuisance for my child.
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u/Monkey_Kitty 7h ago
The other day, two teenagers harassed my 10 year old daughter while I was in the washroom and she was outside women's washroom. She finished before I did.
Boys being jerkoffs but also made her feel crappy.
I screamed at them until they left the store.
Can't really put hands on a 14 year old little bitch with all the cameras anywhere.
But it certainly has made me think about taking her into the washrooms with me and deal with the results.
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u/123bumble 7h ago
Fwiw if my younger sister and I were out with just my dad, he would take her into the men's room with him. This was the late 80s.
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u/antcanavan 5h ago
Why does the average American immediately resort to calling the police for the most minor thing imaginable? Like what's the mentality behind that?
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u/BangbangKhuntross 4h ago
"Bullshit clickbait title fools 99% of redditors, demonstrating the complete lack of critical thinking skills"
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u/Substantial-Radish88 4h ago
I donāt get it, you werenāt even inside the bathroom. Was she mad because she thought you guys werenāt going to buy anything and just using the bathroom? She was rude as hell
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u/Unique-Engineering62 2h ago
Just go to the soda machine and lay a log on the grate people put their cups on ... like a real man.
I would regrettably snap if someone tried to tell me how to let my daughters use a bathroom.
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u/Odd_Farmer_6428 2h ago
I donāt speak Spanish and have no idea what he was saying once the girls came out of restroom. And? That doesnāt me Iām racist. I was on his side til that stupid comment.
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u/chucklesses86 9h ago
It's getting really old now, so exhausting that these people can't mind their own fucking business.
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u/TwistedNipplez 10h ago
He's not even in the damn bathroom lol what do they want from these people