Seriously?

I just want to take a moment to say that people never cease to amaze me. It is wonderful when they do it in an inspiring way; however, I encountered a woman yesterday that left me infuriated by her acts.

We were driving home from a nice vacation yesterday. We were about 45 minutes away from home (after driving for several hours) when my 5-year-old stated that she really needed to use the potty. So I got off at the next exit.

We pulled up to the gas station and decided to fill up at the same time. So I took the girls inside for a potty break while Mike stayed outside with our boy to fill the tank up with gas. I took the girls to the restroom and found that it was occupied. So I told them that we got to wait. They lined up outside the one-toilet bathroom and waited. I looked out the window and noticed a woman pulling up to the pump we were going to use to fill our tank. Mike was busy with the baby and didn't notice her. We had already parked our van there to use the pump, he just hadn't grabbed it yet and it looked like she was going to take it to fill her car first. So I popped my head out to see what was going on. I told the girls I would be right back in. I peeked my head out, and made sure everything was okay. She was just an impatient woman who wanted to pump first (even though she came after us). Mike resolved it and 20 seconds later I went to the back of the store where the restroom was. My children were standing there with frowning faces. My 5-year-old who was crying as we pulled up to the station because she had to go so bad was standing there with her bottom lip quivering.

See, during this time there was a woman who came up to the restroom after us and got in line behind my children to use it. When I popped my head out the door (which was not far from them, mind you) the ladies room became available at which point this barbaric woman side-stepped my kids and blocked them from going into the restroom. She went in before them and used the potty! When I said, "Did that woman go in before you?!" (quite boisterously) Her adult daughter that was with her had the gall to say to me, "She didn't know there was a FORMAL line for the restroom and she couldn't wait!" I took one look at her completely dumbfounded at her response since she, herself was obviously a mother of a young child that was holding her hand. I replied by yelling at her, "Well my 5-year-old can't wait!!!" Then I directed my children to the men's room.

I was completely flabbergasted that a WOMAN who was a mother and a grandmother would be so insensitive and selfish enough to butt in line in front of a little girl with tears in her eyes because she had to use the potty so desperately! It is appauling to me that this woman could not recognize the plight my little one was in. I mean, I have been in situations where I REALLY needed to go and I see a mommy come in with her little ones that REALLY gotta go. Every time I have been in that situation I have let that momma take her children to the bathroom first.

I was so angry that somebody had taken advantage of that situation so easily. I mean, SERIOUSLY... who in their right minds would do that? What I couldn't figure out is if that lady had to go to the bathroom that bad, why didn't she just use the men's room that was literally right next to the ladies room? Both the bathrooms were identical. The only difference were the signs on the door and there were no men in the restroom or waiting to use the restroom. Come on lady, use some common sense and have a heart! Everybody knows that a little girl's bladder is not the same size as an adult's.

All I can say is this... I believe Karma bites you in the butt when you do stuff like that.