The TGI Buffalo
This is one of the most scariest moments in my childhood. At the grand old age of 6 my family and I took ourselves off to TGI Fridays (we have since aquired a little more class and taste) Half way through our meal I toddle off to the 'Ladies' and have a small, child sized wee. Now if you have been to the TGI's in Reading you will know that there is a HUGE Buffalo head above the entrance to the toilets, it took me so long to get the courage up to go under this 'Thing' and eventually just made a run for it.

After finishing up I try to open the loo door, alas I find that my teeny tiny hands are unable to unlock it, in a fit of panic I..... Do absolute bugger all (WTF?) thinking that eventually my parents will realise that I am in great danger and come and rescue me. FORTY minutes later they decide to see if I'm alright, which by this point I am very much NOT. And how do they fix this little lock problem? They go and get what seemed to be EVERY single bloody member of TGI staff to come and try and open the door. Eventually it budges, clearing the way for a very tear stained child, feeling rather abandoned, to exit the ladies. Only to have another breakdown under the Buffalo and apparently being so convinced that it was, in fact, this beast that locked me in the toilet.

This may not sound scary but to a six year old girl with a highly over active imagination, it was.

Fact.
( Argh. There be scallys in the ranks., Wed 7 Sep 2005, 10:42, Reply)