I don’t, no. I suppose I might have some minor level of shame that the receptionists realise that I’ve come in to drop the kids off at the pool and have no business there that I try to pass the whole event off as a cancelled meeting or a mix up. Look at the phone and give an excasbersted look, before getting up and leaving shaking my head.
Clearly, I’m fooling nobody and they can see through my charade.
I was travelling around new Zealand a few years back and remember being profoundly struck by the cleanliness of the various public water closets I had cause to visit. A sign of a well run country.
If the worst comes to the worst and a door has to be opened, which it doesn’t in somewhere decent -the likes of the applegreen In paulstown, then I’ll get my phone out, ring the service station and tell them an assault is happening there. Simples.