I guess you can go viral for just about anything in America today!
Earlier this week, an Oklahoma man by the name of Tyler Brodsky achieved 15 minutes of internet fame after he took his two preschool-aged daughters into an empty women’s restroom at an Alabama QuikTrip.
I guess some dickhead drill sergeant customer didn’t like it, confronted Tyler, and then called the cops. You can watch – or rewatch – it below:
@tylerbrodsky2 Y’all make this man famous. We stopped at a QuikTrip on our road trip from Florida back to Oklahoma so my daughters could use the restroom. The women’s restroom was empty, so I took them in. I’d rather do that than bring two little girls into a men’s bathroom full of grown men and dirty stalls. This guy comes barging in yelling, scares my daughters, and somehow thinks THEY should’ve been in the men’s room instead. Am I wrong here? 🤷♂️ #GirlDad #RoadTrip #parenting #fyp #viral
♬ original sound - Tyler Brodsky
I’ll be honest with you, as a girl dad myself, I’ve never been sure which bathroom I’m supposed to take my kid into, so I always stop at travel hotels – Hampton Inns, Holiday Inn Expresses, etc. – when making road trip pit stops. The bathrooms are usually clean, not busy, and most have a family restroom or handicap stall, so you don’t have to worry about some asshole going nutso on you.
That being said, I’ll never forget an emergency pit stop my daughter and I had to make at the Braum’s in Marietta when she was four. The men’s room looked like it had just hosted a livestock auction, so I loudly knocked on the women’s room door, declared my presence like I was serving a search warrant, and escorted her inside.
For the next few minutes, I stood guard outside the stall like a Secret Service agent, praying nobody would open the door and think I was some Braum’s bathroom weirdo. Of course, about 30 seconds into it, some lady tried walking in and I blurted out something like, “Oh, I’m in here with my daughter. Sorry. One second.”
She stopped, gave a blank stare, and turned around, so basically, I had the exact opposite experience of the Oklahoma dude. But I’m not going to lie – for a split second, I was terrified I had broken some weird restroom code and was about to be publicly shamed by the Marietta Braum’s lunch crowd.
Anyway, weird paranoia and fears aside, I’d like to congratulate Tyler for handling the whole thing about as well as you can.
That being said, was anyone else getting nervous with how long it took? My goal at Braum’s was to get in and out of the women's restroom as quickly as possible. He was washing their hands like they were scrubbing in for surgery. Throw some hand sanitizer on those things and get out of there!
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