OMG I can't believe this happened to me. Last night, just before leaving work, I popped into the ladies loo, which is through 3 sets of doors off the main corridor...shut and locked the cubicle door and heard a "KERCHUNK" as something dropped inside the door. I quickly tried to unlock the door but the knob was just twisting round and round and remaining locked!!
I stood there for a few seconds whilst reality set in...OMG I'm the only female in this part of the office!!! Nobody is going to be coming in here now until the early morning cleaners! OMG OMG OMG!!! Add to that I started feeling claustrophobic and you can understand I was a complete mess...
Well, that was it - completely freaked out at the prospect of spending a night in that tiny loo cubicle, I went into panic mode and began bashing the door, screaming out, yelling, crying, kicking...I was in a real state to say the least.
There was a tiny gap under the door - only about 4 or 5 inches so not enough for me to crawl under - but I grasped it and tried to pull the door furiously hoping to break the lock but it wouldn't budge.
Then I had an idea of standing on the loo lid and trying to push through the ceiling and maybe crawl across and kick my way out on the other side (yeah been watching too many action films LOL) but as I'm not Superwoman that didn't work either.
I was quite hysterical at this point, as I knew everyone would be going home in the next 10-15 mins...so I kept bashing and yelling and screaming...
Eventually, I heard one of the lawyers shouting hesitantly from outside "Is everything ok in there?"
"Get me out! get me out! get me out..." I yelled as they burst in (two of them at that point) and I could hear them the other side of my door trying to work out how to get me out of there!
Anyway, one of them managed to put his fingers inside the hole on the other side of the door lock and twist it open somehow.
I just fell straight onto him crying my eyes out, shaking uncontrollably and my knees kept giving way!
I've never felt so relieved to see a work colleague before LOL
They said they were on their way out and both heard a faint noise but couldn't make out where it was coming from, so it took a few mins to realise it was the ladies toilets and then being typically British gents they were embarrassed to go inside (even though they could hear me yelling my heart out??? LOL)
The stress must've really affected my nerves badly cos I had insomnia all night!
Of course, now I shall never live it down. Word has spread and some of them keep singing that old song "Oh dear what can the matter be, poor old lady stuck in a lavatory..."
Today I can see the funny side of it, though - but one thing is for sure, I shall ALWAYS take my mobile phone with me in future!
Athena
I stood there for a few seconds whilst reality set in...OMG I'm the only female in this part of the office!!! Nobody is going to be coming in here now until the early morning cleaners! OMG OMG OMG!!! Add to that I started feeling claustrophobic and you can understand I was a complete mess...
Well, that was it - completely freaked out at the prospect of spending a night in that tiny loo cubicle, I went into panic mode and began bashing the door, screaming out, yelling, crying, kicking...I was in a real state to say the least.
There was a tiny gap under the door - only about 4 or 5 inches so not enough for me to crawl under - but I grasped it and tried to pull the door furiously hoping to break the lock but it wouldn't budge.
Then I had an idea of standing on the loo lid and trying to push through the ceiling and maybe crawl across and kick my way out on the other side (yeah been watching too many action films LOL) but as I'm not Superwoman that didn't work either.
I was quite hysterical at this point, as I knew everyone would be going home in the next 10-15 mins...so I kept bashing and yelling and screaming...
Eventually, I heard one of the lawyers shouting hesitantly from outside "Is everything ok in there?"
"Get me out! get me out! get me out..." I yelled as they burst in (two of them at that point) and I could hear them the other side of my door trying to work out how to get me out of there!
Anyway, one of them managed to put his fingers inside the hole on the other side of the door lock and twist it open somehow.
I just fell straight onto him crying my eyes out, shaking uncontrollably and my knees kept giving way!
I've never felt so relieved to see a work colleague before LOL
They said they were on their way out and both heard a faint noise but couldn't make out where it was coming from, so it took a few mins to realise it was the ladies toilets and then being typically British gents they were embarrassed to go inside (even though they could hear me yelling my heart out??? LOL)
The stress must've really affected my nerves badly cos I had insomnia all night!
Of course, now I shall never live it down. Word has spread and some of them keep singing that old song "Oh dear what can the matter be, poor old lady stuck in a lavatory..."
Today I can see the funny side of it, though - but one thing is for sure, I shall ALWAYS take my mobile phone with me in future!
Athena
a night in the toilet does not sound appealing 
