[IIntense]

Re: your discomfort in Lowe's men's room, I found myself on the opposite end of that experience. While shopping in a department store with my grandson, about age six at the time, he really HAD to use the bathroom. I took him to the men's room, right outside the store restaurant, and let him go in.

I thought he'd NEVER come out...he was in there so long. I watched men go in, some leave. I opened the door a crack and called my grandson. No answer. Frankly, (regretfully) I became frantic. Why? Fear for his safety. I went to a restaurant employee and asked for a man to go in and check on my little guy.

All was well. He had more to do than just urinate.

Was I behaving like an hysterical grandparent? Maybe. But this is an example of how passionate we will be to protect our little ones.

[perez24]

Why didn’t you just go in with him? My son is 10, and he doesn’t go alone. Sometimes I even have to take my daughter when mommy is wandering about the store.

Maybe I’m living in a glass house, but there seems to be an inordinant amount of paranoia in this thread.