The very wrong Sunday night jog.

Everything seemed routine. I’m all set for my Sunday night jog. Told my mum that I will not bring my keys before I left home.

but

something was new; my bladder showed signs of urgency like out of the blue moon. I figured if I went back home, it’ll dampened my mood to jog and so I headed on to find a toilet.

Thoughts poured in my mind and a yellow bulb appeared,
“Hey, if I’m not wrong there’s a public toilet at Yishun Park and that’s where I’m heading anyway.”

I was so relieved that I don’t have to execute a public act.

Opened the door and closed it and

I did my thing, which is apparently everyone’s thing too.
I was so impressed that the toilet was mostly automated – a thumb up for that.

- washing hand
- soap dispenser
- hand drying
- toilet roll

either you need to press some button or just put your hand near the sensor and it’ll give you no trouble.

This automated public toilet was so special and exceptional that no other toilets have; an automated door!

WOW! and guess what happened?

I finished my thing, look at the mirror and yadayada…grabbed the door handle and I just found out that

I CAN’T OPEN THE DOOR!

I tried pressing the buttons near the door but to no avail. There weren’t any buttons to begin with, just button-like-looking-lights.

at that point of time the thoughts of calling 999/995 was running in my mind but then again who would call that 3 digit helpline just to get you out of the public toilet.

It’ll be so news headline!
Just imagine a crowd outside the toilet and everyone claps after somebody is being rescued from being trapped in a public toilet.

So not right!

and oh boy, I found this out

WHAT! 10 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!

now you can guess how many minutes I spent in the toilet. Like oh my god!
This is the first time that I’ve been locked in a public toilet!

and when the countdown was over there’s some warning announcement that goes
“dear occupant, you have reached your time limit, the door is unlocked, please exit the toilet,” (something like that)

and I still can’t open the door. mother fucking toilet!

I decided to wait till the announcement shut itself up. For the final attempt to open the door, I succeed!

to you first-timers whom visit the Yishun Park and happened to use the public toilet, this is your advice.

happy spending 10 minutes inside the toilet infested with ants and automated machines. Fully utilise it. (:

I hope National Parks Board will do something about it! Hear my not so complain complaint!

the news doesn’t stop there.

As I continued with my jog, sweaty and panting like a worned out dog, there’s a taxi that was parked along the road.

and what I saw that the driver was walking towards the side of the pavement and unzipped his pants and…

PEED!

How unglam! I wanted to take a snap of him but I respect his open privacy.