edit: I am a man and the only man in this scenario
This happened some time ago. I was driving and stopped on a gas station. probably for coffee and had to go pee. I saw a long queue of around fifteen to twenty exclusively 30-something girls, definitely bit older than me. They probably were a sports team, since there was a hired couch bus waiting outside and they were mostly wearing sweats. There were separate stalls for men and women (one each), so I went for the men’s room. It turned out locked, so I stood just outside it. One of the girls in the queue said that the back of the queue is “back there”. I replied “sure, but I’m going to the men’s room”, understandably assuming they were queueing for the ladies room. To which she said “yeah but there’s one queue for both”. I am familiar with the concept of shared queues, but mostly from supermarkets or post office, where you would queue for several checkouts and just go to the first one that is free. Never encountered shared queues for gender-separated toilets, so I said “but the toilets are separate, I’m going to the men’s room and you can queue for the ladies room” and simply went in without any more protest from them when the men’s room emptied (and it was another girl in there).
Were I the asshole?
One queue for both toilets? That makes zero sense
The restrooms are each operating at capacity. How doesn’t it make sense?
Someone leaves the mens toilet, making a space free.
10 women are queuing in front of you. Its one queue.
You now have to wait for the 10 in front of you until you can use the mens toilet?
As a brit I am a master at queuing as the stereotype goes /s
edit - getting downvoted, so someone explain what I am missing here.
If the women are not using the mens toilet, why do those waiting for the mens toilet have to queue with the women waiting for the womens toilet? Or is OP actually stating the toilets are not separated by gender?
The women were using the men’s toilet as well.
I mean it does make sense when there’s only one gender present to use them