“Hi Li, what did you get up to today..?”

“Oh, nothing much, I just accidentally walked into the male toilets at uni before my exam, you know, the usual…”

Being a girl, you know something’s just not quite right when you go into a restroom and the first thing you see are urinals. Some how, this logic simply didn’t register at 8am before my economics exam.

I was sitting outside the examination room, half and hour early, twiddling my thumbs and trying to figure out whether it is possible to twiddle your toes. Then I thought I would answer nature’s call and make my way to the toilet. The toilet was about maybe 5-10 metres away from where I was sitting and so I walked into what I thought was the girl’s toilets. I opened the door, and walked toward the toilets. For some unknown reason, the male toilet figure looked, to me, like a girl.

To the far left was a man takin a leak with his back facing me, so he didn’t notice I came in. For some unknown reason, it STILL didn’t register to me that I was in the male toilets, until I closed the door of the toilet. My thought processes were: “Did I just see a urinal…? Did I just see a man…? Does QUT have unisex restrooms?”

I stood there in my cubicle, hoping that all the guys would leave and then I could make a brisk exit. Unfortunately, being just before an exam, many MANY males came flooding in. I stood there for about 5 minutes looking through the crack in the door waiting for the right moment to leave, but people just kept coming in. So I decided that I would just quickly walk/RUN out and appologise to anyone I met on the way.

I was like a thief in the night walking out of there. Nobody noticed me (I hope)! Except people outside of the toilets did notice when I walked out and they gave me confused or disapproving looks. Luckily a friend was there to laugh at the situation… or rather, AT me.

Moral of the story- the girl-symbol on restroom doors never wears pants, even in winter.

On the plus side, the economics exam went really well, praise God!!