this customer seemed offended that i politely told her that her 4ft tall son couldn't be in the ladies fitting room. "he's only 7". ma'am...he cannot be in an area where other females are in various stages of undress--your comfort level is not the same as others. she huffed and told the son to sit on the bench outside the fitting room.

thoughts?

I would have politely told you that he's coming in like it or not and if you still insisted we would have brawled

Too many freaks out there to let a 7 or 8 year old unattended. It would be for that reason that I had him in there with me. That's assuming I was a mother

Are you sure it was her son, and not some horny midget?

Seriously, your in the right!

i posted this on my FB page as well...and the mom's are like the kid should be in the fitting room. but that's your kid, not everybody else's...maybe you should be trying on clothes at a different time. a 7 year old little girl in the men's room is uncomfortable for me, sorry

I don’t see what the big deal is. You have your own stall for either a fitting room or a restroom. A 7 or 8 year old is a child.

CarrieMpls said:

I don’t see what the big deal is. You have your own stall for either a fitting room or a restroom. A 7 or 8 year old is a child.

some people are startled to exit a booth and find a kid there--most men are still zipping up when they exit the stall

Fury said:

CarrieMpls said:

I don’t see what the big deal is. You have your own stall for either a fitting room or a restroom. A 7 or 8 year old is a child.

some people are startled to exit a booth and find a kid there--most men are still zipping up when they exit the stall

Considering the unbridled strength you got goin on, I'm sure you're always uncomfortable!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Fury said:

some people are startled to exit a booth and find a kid there--most men are still zipping up when they exit the stall

Considering the unbridled strength you got goin on, I'm sure you're always uncomfortable!

@==========>

More being forced to deal with kids.

CarrieMpls said:

I don’t see what the big deal is. You have your own stall for either a fitting room or a restroom. A 7 or 8 year old is a child.

I'd be hesitant to bring an 8-year-old girl into a men's restroom. There are standing urinals all over the place. Some men's rooms don't even have partitions between the urinals so any curious child can get an easy look-see at what guys are packing. Some men might not be comfortable with that.

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sextonseven said:

CarrieMpls said:

I don’t see what the big deal is. You have your own stall for either a fitting room or a restroom. A 7 or 8 year old is a child.

I'd be hesitant to bring an 8-year-old girl into a men's restroom. There are standing urinals all over the place. Some men's rooms don't even have partitions between the urinals so any curious child can get an easy look-see at what guys are packing. Some men might not be comfortable with that.

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I guess I was thinking about the other way around.

I wouldn't hesitate to bring a boy of 7 or 8 into a store fitting room or ladies room.

But yeah, maybe the other way around isn't such a good idea.

Fury said:

this customer seemed offended that i politely told her that her 4ft tall son couldn't be in the ladies fitting room. "he's only 7". ma'am...he cannot be in an area where other females are in various stages of undress--your comfort level is not the same as others. she huffed and told the son to sit on the bench outside the fitting room.

thoughts?

When we went prom dress shopping 17/18 yrs olds ...

there were TEEN boys IN the women's dressing room ... I told the attendant and she did nothing

i remember at 7-8 years i was curious and nosey lol

CarrieMpls said:

sextonseven said:

I'd be hesitant to bring an 8-year-old girl into a men's restroom. There are standing urinals all over the place. Some men's rooms don't even have partitions between the urinals so any curious child can get an easy look-see at what guys are packing. Some men might not be comfortable with that.

[Edited 7/30/10 10:42am]

I guess I was thinking about the other way around.

I wouldn't hesitate to bring a boy of 7 or 8 into a store fitting room or ladies room.

But yeah, maybe the other way around isn't such a good idea.

Boys to girls yes Girls to boys no

Fury said:

this customer seemed offended that i politely told her that her 4ft tall son couldn't be in the ladies fitting room. "he's only 7". ma'am...he cannot be in an area where other females are in various stages of undress--your comfort level is not the same as others. she huffed and told the son to sit on the bench outside the fitting room.

thoughts?

So was this a fitting room or restroom?

How much is he going to see, other than of his mother in a fitting room?

Women in underwear, maybe . . . .

Do you think he's actually thinking about these women as sex objects?

Don't you think he sees more on television than he would in a fitting room?

A serious response...

7-8 year old girl in a fitting room, probably not a problem, but it could make some men uncomfortable and/or create an unexpected bad situation.

I rarely leave the changing booth when trying on clothes and when I do I'm fully clothed. But I have seen men walking around the outer fitting area in their skivvies. I've also walked out into that area and seen wives, girlfriends and mothers waiting to check out the clothes somebody is trying on as well. So I think this one is kind of straddling a line. More often than not these days, at least where I am, there is nobody from the store working the fitting room entrance, anyway. You just walk in and out with whatever you want to try on.

7-8 year old girl in a men's public bathroom. Hell no. And I would make it very clear to the attending parent that it was not O.K. If your 7-8 year old girl can't use the womens restroom with you waiting outside the door then you've done something seriously incorrect as a parent.

SUPRMAN said:

Fury said:

this customer seemed offended that i politely told her that her 4ft tall son couldn't be in the ladies fitting room. "he's only 7". ma'am...he cannot be in an area where other females are in various stages of undress--your comfort level is not the same as others. she huffed and told the son to sit on the bench outside the fitting room.

thoughts?

So was this a fitting room or restroom?

How much is he going to see, other than of his mother in a fitting room?

Women in underwear, maybe . . . .

Do you think he's actually thinking about these women as sex objects?

Don't you think he sees more on television than he would in a fitting room?

this was in the fitting room and this kid was outside of the booth. he might see more on tv, but its about other people's comfort too. some people don't like other people's kids all up in their vunerable moments

Fury said:

SUPRMAN said:

So was this a fitting room or restroom?

How much is he going to see, other than of his mother in a fitting room?

Women in underwear, maybe . . . .

Do you think he's actually thinking about these women as sex objects?

Don't you think he sees more on television than he would in a fitting room?

this was in the fitting room and this kid was outside of the booth. he might see more on tv, but its about other people's comfort too. some people don't like other people's kids all up in their vunerable moments

WEll yeah, he should be in the booth with mom!

Fury said:

SUPRMAN said:

So was this a fitting room or restroom?

How much is he going to see, other than of his mother in a fitting room?

Women in underwear, maybe . . . .

Do you think he's actually thinking about these women as sex objects?

Don't you think he sees more on television than he would in a fitting room?

this was in the fitting room and this kid was outside of the booth. he might see more on tv, but its about other people's comfort too. some people don't like other people's kids all up in their vunerable moments

I don't like other peoples kids all up in my moments, PERIOD. But as a single male I'm forced to deal with them on a near daily basis. Like I said above, straddling a line. I wouldn't be offended by it, but I can see where some people might be.

sextonseven said:

CarrieMpls said:

I don’t see what the big deal is. You have your own stall for either a fitting room or a restroom. A 7 or 8 year old is a child.

I'd be hesitant to bring an 8-year-old girl into a men's restroom. There are standing urinals all over the place. Some men's rooms don't even have partitions between the urinals so any curious child can get an easy look-see at what guys are packing. Some men might not be comfortable with that.

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I would never bring a girl into a men's restroom but they aren't going to see any dicks unless the men want them to see their dick. Believe me, I've tried my damndest to see dicks at the urinals when I was a child and when I became an adult and I have never seen one. Hell, I've even taken an extra long time washing my hands and looking back through the mirror at the sink hoping one would let their guard down and turn around before putting their dick back in their pants but they never do.

vainandy said:

sextonseven said:

I'd be hesitant to bring an 8-year-old girl into a men's restroom. There are standing urinals all over the place. Some men's rooms don't even have partitions between the urinals so any curious child can get an easy look-see at what guys are packing. Some men might not be comfortable with that.

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I would never bring a girl into a men's restroom but they aren't going to see any dicks unless the men want them to see their dick. Believe me, I've tried my damndest to see dicks at the urinals when I was a child and when I became an adult and I have never seen one. Hell, I've even taken an extra long time washing my hands and looking back through the mirror at the sink hoping one would let their guard down and turn around before putting their dick back in their pants but they never do.

you are such a bad gay. How can you have never seen one in the bathroom???!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I would have politely told you that he's coming in like it or not and if you still insisted we would have brawled

Too many freaks out there to let a 7 or 8 year old unattended. It would be for that reason that I had him in there with me. That's assuming I was a mother

Exactly.

And it's not like he's in the actual little stall thingie where the other women are naked. My kids both come in the the dressing room with me, at 5 and 7, the 7 year old being my SON, and no one has ever said a word. He comes in the bathroom with me too, at public places, if we are on our own, and I have no one with me to keep an eye on him. I'd NEVER leave them outt a my site in public at that age.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

vainandy said:

I would never bring a girl into a men's restroom but they aren't going to see any dicks unless the men want them to see their dick. Believe me, I've tried my damndest to see dicks at the urinals when I was a child and when I became an adult and I have never seen one. Hell, I've even taken an extra long time washing my hands and looking back through the mirror at the sink hoping one would let their guard down and turn around before putting their dick back in their pants but they never do.

you are such a bad gay. How can you have never seen one in the bathroom???!

I only saw one by accident once. I was in the restroom at a Picadilly cafeteria. I had just eaten some greens so you know what I had to do. It was a small restroom with one stall and one urinal which was right outside the stall door. I was sitting in the stall and saw a dick through the crack in the stall door.

I saw a dick two or three other times from the same guy when I had to go to a safety meeting for my job. When we would take a restroom break, he would always use the urinal right next to the one I was using. There were no partitions but as long as you stood all the way up to the urinal, no one was going to see anything because of the way the urinals were shaped. When he went to put his dick back in his pants, he would stand further away back from the urinal and shake it for a long time. I kept looking straight ahead but I could see it through the corner of my eye. He did that every time we took a restroom break and I saw that dick three times. That was intentional.

Oh, and I've seen endless dicks at urinals at a gay club but you can't help to see them though because they had one long urinal that about three men could use at the same time and they had a long mirror directly in front of it. I used to get drunk as hell drinking my beer as fast as I could trying to make myself have to go piss again.

But no, in normal settings in public restrooms, I've never seen one.

As a former retail manager of a boutique....

The rule is, in a women's store... in a woman's dressing room the is PRIVATE and the woman can dress INSIDE it, she can bring her young child inside. He can not stand outside the dressing room common area. If the dressing room is too small, then an employee can stand with the child outside the dressing rooms, the employee is to keep the child safe until mom is done trying on garmets.

Just like a stall, baby boy must be INSIDE the stall with her, if he doesn't want to then he needs to wait OUT SIDE.

If mom has to take a hard shit, mom needs to drop what she's doing and just go home.

Fury, you were wrong.

Ugh, whatever one's "comfort" level, public restrooms/change rooms are just awkward and never designed for one's privacy.

i have a six year old son, and i would never leave him outside sitting on a bench while i'm in the restroom or a fitting room. i always take him inside the fitting room and rest room stalls with me. it's ashame, but now days you just can't leave your kid alone, even for a minute. there are too many evil people lurking around looking for unattended children. i would never let my son go into a public restroom alone at this age! just a few weeks ago a kid was nearly killed in a public restroom at an outdoor mall near where i live because his mom let him go alone while she stayed inside a store and shopped. so if a store won't let my kid come with me, then i will be leaving that store and going else where or home. i worked in retail for years, and this was never a problem with customers. i of course feel there is a limit to age, i don't think teenagers or older kids should be in those places. and i think they shouldn't stand outside the doors. they should be inside with the parent.

a lot of shopping centres have parenting rooms, where mums can go and breast feed...AND men can safely take their daughters to use the facilities.

a lot of these rooms have curtained areas, where if you are a shy feeding mum, you can sit behind.

i actually told a young dad one day to ignore the other women who were glareing at him, he had just as much right to be there as his partner did.

saying that, i still wait outside the mens room when my son (11) is inside, where i am in yelling distance.

its a sad fact, the world isnt safe these days.

this story has always stuck in my mind

http://news.ninemsn.com.a...x?id=95062

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I would have politely told you that he's coming in like it or not and if you still insisted we would have brawled

Too many freaks out there to let a 7 or 8 year old unattended. It would be for that reason that I had him in there with me. That's assuming I was a mother

Yes.

If I had a young child, he/she'd be with me 24-7! Just a couple of months ago, a kid almost got snatched from the mall near my house. If people hadn't gotten suspicious and stopped the guy, who knows what would've happened!

I have no problem with women bringing their children (male or female) into the dressing rooms. As far as bathrooms go, everywhere I go seems to have a "family restroom." I'm assuming any parent, male or female, can take their child to use the restroom without any drama. Pretty good idea if you ask me.

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When I have boys with me, the come WITH ME wherver I go. If they have to use the bathroom, I take them right into the female restroom to handle their business and when I go to try on clothes, they come right into the fitting room with me. I did it with my brother until he was about 10 I don't give a damn, I do not like leaving him or any other kid I have in my care unattended, people are too quick to snatch kids up and I'm not trying to live with that.