AITAH For watching two guys wait for an empty bathroom?
So we’re at a restaurant, and our table had a perfect line of sight to the men’s single-person bathroom. What followed felt like a live-action sitcom.
It started when a guy speed-walked over to our table looking absolutely desperate. He asked if the women at our table would mind if he used the women’s single-person bathroom because the men’s had apparently been occupied for an eternity. Everyone shrugged, gave him the green light, and off he went.
Naturally, this made all of us aware that someone had been camping in the men’s room for a suspiciously long time.
A couple minutes later, another guy walks up to the men’s room, finds it locked, and politely waits at the end of the hall. About 30 seconds later, the mystery pooper finally emerges after what had to have been a solid 10–15 minute session. But the waiting guy had gotten distracted staring at some wall art and completely missed the escape. The bathroom door swings shut behind the guy like nothing happened.
So now the bathroom is empty… but the waiting guy still thinks it’s occupied.
Then another guy walks up to use it, and the first waiter confidently tells him, “Yeah, someone’s in there.”
Now BOTH of them are waiting for a non-existent bathroom occupant.
At this point our table is trying not to lose it. The two guys even start casually chatting while standing guard over an empty restroom like they’re working security detail.
A few minutes later, a kid walks up. Both men warn him, “It’s occupied.”
The kid ignores them entirely, knocks once, opens the door, discovers the magical truth that nobody is inside, and casually walks in.
The look on those two guys’ faces as they realized they’d been respectfully waiting together for absolutely nobody nearly killed us.
AITAH for letting this happen?