OK, I wasn't ever going to write this, but since this thread is here, well, it's my chance to do this "tastefully". AND if you are the lady "in question", you have my admiration for "taking my sister and her friend down with you" and embarrassing THEM as much as they embarrassed YOU!!!
WELL, this was in October and we were just being seated at Chef's de France. My sister and her friend (in their mid 30's) had to use the bathroom. DH and I were seated and they seemed to be gone an awfully long time. I was almost going to go check on them.
Well, they finally came back to the table and they looked positively "stricken" and almost "terrified". They said, "You'll NEVER believe what happened to us!!!" They preceeded to tell us how they were both going to the bathroom and someone made quite a large "noise" (putting it politely), well, my sister thought they were alone and said, "WOW, good one, way to go girl!!!"
My sister's friend quietly, said, "Rachel, that wasn't me!!!" Well, another "noise", apparrently louder than the first!!! My sister thought her friend was kidding about being alone and, then said, "Boy, another one like that and you'll be able to eat TWO desserts!!!" My sister's friend AGAIN said, "Rachel is WASN"T ME!!!" Well, she was finished and just wanted to get out of there, so she started washing her hands and all of a sudden the lady came out of the other stall, arms opened wide, New York accent and said, "IT WAS ME!!!!!!!"
My sister, still in the stall, was afraid to move, my sister's friend was positively stunned and totally embarrassed, and the lady proceeded to say, "Haven't you girls EVER had to go to that bathroom before??? Now where's the OTHER one!!!"
So my sister VERY sheepishly came out of the stall and put her hand out to shake the lady's hand and the lady said, "You haven't washed that hand!!!" Well, I guess apologies were exchanged and some other remarks, but I have never ever seen my smarty sister at such a loss for words and so embarrassed in my life.
NOW, all of this was being told to us at our table in Chefs de France. I was literally laughing SO hard that the tears were running down my cheeks and I could hardly catch my breath, just picturing that whole scenario in that bathroom. AND in the middle of all of this, our poor waiter kept coming back and we tried so hard to compose ourselves enough to say that we needed a little more time. I'm sure he thought we were nuts, or laughing at him or something, by how he looked at us.
Well, all I can say again, is "kudos" to that lady. Instead of "cowering" in the stall, she had the smarts to "take my sister" down with her and embarrass my sister more than my sister embarrassed HER!!! It was ingenious, and absolutely hysterical.