My Most Embarrassing Moment

My most embarrassing moment happened nearly 30 years ago at the YMCA in Danville, Il. I had just enjoyed a refreshing swim in the large pool & then entered the woman’s dressing room to take a shower before going home.

Without my eye-glasses I’m truly at a disadvantage. When I came out of the shower in the process of wrapping my towel around me it took a moment to realize the person standing in the doorway leading to the pool was a man & not a woman. We were both startled & slow to move.
Later, on my way out of the YMCA, I dropped a note in the suggestion box. Which read "please place a larger sign on the dressing room door, so no one else would get an unexpected surprise like I did."

I was greatly relived to notice on my next trip to the YMCA the door signs where twice as large as before. Even I could read them without my eye-glasses. To this day whenever I see a sign with the word women I read it to mean whoa-men. In Webster’s Dictionary the word whoa is defined like this; a command (as to a draft animal) to stand still.

Story ID:	799
Written by:	Cynthia Jo Ross (bio, contact, other stories)
Organization:	Lens to the Past
Story type:	Musings, Essays and Such
Location:	Danville Il USA
Year:	1977
Person:	myself