do you think I was rude?

You have a physical disability. You are entitled to use the room with the bench.

Can you get an extra disabled placard that you can carry with you when you shop? I might be tempted to "check in" with the attendant PRIOR to using disabled facilities. It might prevent a well-meaning clerk from chastising you in public.

Just because you aren't in a wheelchair doesn't mean you aren't disabled. And just because your disability isn't obvious to others, it doesn't mean the clerk is trying to be rude. Tons of people use disabled facilities when they shouldn't. Even though the clerk was rude, she really was trying to be an advocate for the disabled.

Some communication up front might prevent some of these awkward situations?

I'm sorry it happened.

Try again, dear. Every place I have ever been to have the smaller rooms with benches as well. So, yes you were rude. You could have gone to the smaller one if you wanted to. However, like you always say in similar questions you need the bigger room because you like it. Stop acting like you are the victim for once. Also, stop posting these stupid questions. They are always the same. You ALWAYS "forget" to mention you have a disability on the first one, so you have to make a new question. No one cares.

No, you weren't being rude the store worker was. How did she know that the person using the handicap dressing room wasn't theme selves handicapped or had children with them. Some of those dressing rooms are very small and its hard to maneuver in there. I think you should report what happened to the store manager, just because someone isn't visibly handicapped (ie walker or wheelchair) doesn't mean that they don't need to be in the handicapped dressing room.

If you have a disability then you have a right to use that dressing room too. Most stores make you have an employee open up the dressing rooom for you.

Bubbles, how upset are you that you need to post this same question twice? It was inconsiderate, and that's that.

If you need to sit down while trying on jeans, they don't fit you properly. That's an interesting disability you did not mention in your first posting of this same question. I suspect you suddenly have a disability because you can't deal with the fact that you were wrong.

Now please, forgive yourself for this wrong and move on!

Uh, no. Personally, if I needed to use the disabled room and someone did that to me, I would have given them an absolute tongue lashing and made a scene. That ***** was rude, not you.

You were inadvertently inconsiderate, but not blatantly rude. It was a mere mistake that was resolved by you not dawdling on your way out of the room and by saying "Please excuse me, it was my mistake" as nicely as possible.

What IS rude is some salesperson presuming that you, an adult, need to be chastized like a child. You could have given her this "It was an accident, and how dare you chastize me!" followed by a huffy exit from the store. That reaction, in those words (said in a low, angry whisper so as not to humiliate the person in front of others), is actually a polite way to show your anger and properly shame her. If you yelled it, of course, that would be rude, but said quietly, it is not.

I would have looked that bit*ch sales clerk in the eye and said, "I HAVE a disability, and I qualify to use this room. Would you like to call a manager over so that he can make this abundantly clear to you?" And then knowing me, I'd add, "I'm waiting for your apology".

You have a disability where you can't try on jeans standing up but you can wear them standing up?

I'm confused.

if anyone was rude is was that ignorant lady.