Nina's Blog - Friday 22nd August 2025
Friday 22nd August 2025, 12:05
I've just had an unexpected experience.
I went to the gents in the Lower Precinct shopping centre in Coventry just now. It's by the entrance to the market.
I was just finishing adjusting my skirt, making sure it wasn't caught up in my thong, and ferreting in my handbag for lipstick when I heard a voice outside the cubicle. It wasn't shouting but it was clearly meant to be heard throughout the facility. It said something like "This is a men only toilet women are not allowed here".
As I came out of the cubicle the man with the voice was standing just beside it dressed in some official looking security person uniform. So I said to him "If you are referring to me I'm in the right place and wouldn't dare go to the ladies loo in the current legal climate.". He looked slightly embarrassed and said he'd just got a radio call about a woman going into the gents. I said I was flattered that the mistake had been made. He said something like no problem and left, not exactly in a rush but nearly.
So is there a monitored camera covering the entrance to the loos or did a member of the public complain?
I was wearing a hat and lipstick but I didn't have sunglasses or any other makeup on so anyone seeing my face should surely have seen that it's not very feminine.
I've just had an unexpected experience.
I went to the gents in the Lower Precinct shopping centre in Coventry just now. It's by the entrance to the market.
I was just finishing adjusting my skirt, making sure it wasn't caught up in my thong, and ferreting in my handbag for lipstick when I heard a voice outside the cubicle. It wasn't shouting but it was clearly meant to be heard throughout the facility. It said something like "This is a men only toilet women are not allowed here".
As I came out of the cubicle the man with the voice was standing just beside it dressed in some official looking security person uniform. So I said to him "If you are referring to me I'm in the right place and wouldn't dare go to the ladies loo in the current legal climate.". He looked slightly embarrassed and said he'd just got a radio call about a woman going into the gents. I said I was flattered that the mistake had been made. He said something like no problem and left, not exactly in a rush but nearly.
So is there a monitored camera covering the entrance to the loos or did a member of the public complain?
I was wearing a hat and lipstick but I didn't have sunglasses or any other makeup on so anyone seeing my face should surely have seen that it's not very feminine.
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