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The Bunny In The Bathroom
One of the most surreal experiences I’ve ever had
At 11 pm last night, my Mum and I walked into the bathroom of a McDonald's in a local city and the first thing we saw was a rabbit sitting in a bag in one of the cubicles.
For context — because hanging out in bathrooms late at night isn’t the norm for us — we were traveling home from watching country music star Brandy Clark perform (a fantastic show, by the way) and as ever, my bladder wouldn’t last the journey home. We entered the 3 cubicle bathroom, as cramped as McDonald’s bathrooms always are, and I saw this little white bunny hanging out in a bag on the floor of the first cubicle. A tap was running so I looked to the woman washing her hands.
“There’s a rabbit in there,” she said.
My mum and I agreed, a simple, “Yep”, and looked back at the bunny, until the woman elaborated,
“It’s mine, he’s with me.”
I definitely felt relieved to hear that, though it didn’t exactly explain a lot, it did mean I didn’t have to worry about finding an emergency vet in an unfamiliar place at midnight.
The woman explained to us, rather quickly, that she was suffering from ‘Lazyitis’, a word I haven’t heard since Primary School, and hadn’t been going to Pilates which meant that she had…
