More than likely they didn’t have restrooms available to the public but allowed you since you jad a child.
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toynbee@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Once I took my kid to a Dollar General (not a corporation I would prefer to support, but we had a need for a product and there aren’t many other options practically available locally). The kid was five or six at the time, I don’t recall precisely.
Anyway, as we were acquiring our necessities, the kid realized they had to use the restroom. I asked the kid if they were able to hold it, but they said no, so I inquired with the staff and, though I never realized it prior, it turns out that at least that particular DG does, indeed, allow you to use their restroom.
I took the kid to it but, like some grocery stores I attended when I, myself, was but a youth, it was through the stock room. Much like I remember feeling in those stock rooms, my kid felt we shouldn’t be there. They clung tightly to me and, despite my reassurances, kept repeating “I don’t think we should be here. We should not be back here.” After they took care of business, we came back out into the store proper and they said words to the effect of “phew! I didn’t think we should be there.”
I never want my progeny to have to be afraid, and certainly I don’t want them to be unnecessarily fearful, but I do feel proud that when they were I was a source of safety for them.
DrPop@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I’ve certainly wondered whether that’s the case.
bstix@feddit.dk 2 hours ago
I have a similar story from a random grocery store.
After a long drive my daughter had to pee and I asked the staff to borrow the restroom and got guided to the back of the stock. It was occupied so we just stood and waited. They left the door/gate between the store and stock open so we could find our way out afterwards. While waiting, other customers started queueing up, so there’s a line of 5 people, who apparently saw us through the gate and figured that they also urgently needed to use the restroom just then for some reason. Nobody usually does this, so I don’t know what gave.
So after 10 minutes or so the door is finally unlocked and a staff member comes out looking all red headed and surprised to see a whole bunch of people just waiting for her to be finished shitting on company time.
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
That sounds awful. I’m sorry that happened.
Once I was driving on I-95 and developed unexpected diarrhea. I stopped at a nearby Subway and relieved myself there, but it took a while. While I was doing so I heard people in the hallway outside of the bathroom; what I heard was someone saying “wow, you’re all waiting for the bathroom?” Hearing that didn’t help.
My restroom experience in that situation was not positive. My experience of exiting that restroom after hearing that and walking past a long line of people who all had to hear my struggles in there was worse.
Hoimo@ani.social 5 hours ago
The kid, in therapy later: I found something in the store… A place. I found a place. It’s like the store just continues. There’s a wall… and on the other side of the wall, the store just keeps going, like a copy of itself.
toynbee@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
They’ll probably love Click.
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Kids instinctively fear the Backrooms