Safety Net

I am embarrassed to admit that for the second or third time in my UNLV career, I came dangerously close to walking into the men's locker room at school. I am not certain as to why this keeps happening to me. I think it has something to do with the fact that the outer doors aren't exactly marked; there is just a huge overhead sign. Anyway, the locker rooms are set up so that you walk through one set of double doors into a little entry way and then another set of double doors leads you into the actual locker room. I have walked into the men's entry way part on a couple occasions. Lucky for me, once you walk into the entry way part of the women's locker room, "women's" is stenciled on the door in red paint. So, in my moments of absent-mindedness, I have been saved by the fact that the men's door is blank. Today I actually walked up to the outer men's locker room door, questioned myself as to whether I was walking into the men's locker room, decided that I had certainly not repeated my past error, walked in, and then realized my error. I walked back out and quickly scanned the hallway to see who had witnessed my moronic episode. There hadn't been anybody close, so I was able to quickly walk up to the women's locker room and duck in before facing anyone.