Life's little mysteries?

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Isaac Newton once said that, while he had a gift for resolving issues in nature, he struggled to understand people, and I find myself in the same boat. Here's an example of the many things herd-humans do which baffle me:

At the supermarket, say, I'd need to visit the toilet, and would usually find some cubicles with open doors, and I'd usually go to use the first that was clean and had paper. As often as not, someone else would come in, then, instead of going to a cubicle that was obviously vacant, they almost always come up to my cubicle first, and try to open the door!

Apart from being puzzling, it's also annoying: OK "'tis not a place to sit and wonder..." but what kind of a life is it when one can't enjoy a quiet, contemplative crap, undisturbed?

I call it a "sit down"

At least they don't look under the door

Or even better; over the door

So that's why some people take so long. I thought it was because they had constipation or lazy colons. When I go for a dump I can hardly wait to get out of the place. And I'd only use a public toilet for that in a dire emergency.

My boss' wife somehow got herself locked in a toilet cubicle while she was in France. The only way out was to climb over the side wall and get out via the adjoining cubicle. Unfortunately there was somebody in there at the time. Not being good at French, the only thing she could think of to say was "Bonjour."

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Yes I can. I suspect it would be a creepy experience.