Oue es les toilettes, Galleries Lafayette?

Foxy and I were given a grand opportunity: a personal tour of Galleries Lafayette by, the very French, Sarah Acker. 

Now, Foxy is not a shopper but even she was impressed by the 7+ storied building with, what some say is, the best view of Paris. Unfortunately the view wasn't so great for us because it was gray, cloudy and wet. 

After strolling down through the floors (past our favourite, level 3: Seduction Wear) my stomach was a-grumblin'. We asked a lady who worked there where the toilets were. 

"Just around the corner."

Now imagine this with "Sandstorm" playing throughout.

There I was, running around the nearest corner. But the store is designed in a circular fashion. I saw her again.

"That corner." She pointed to the bathroom sign behind her. The bathroom was situated behind the change-room and the woman working the change-room was kind enough to tell me there was only a women's toilet on that floor. Time was running out. To the floor below I ran as I noticed the out-of-place, thumping techno musique soundtracking my search for relief.

I found the "Man Toilet"! Success!

Or not. Because I was smart enough to check each of the EIGHT stalls for toilet paper. All empty. I ran to the closest sales associate, sweating. 

"Please, where is there another men's toilet??" I asked, my voice shaking.

I was instructed down to the next "half floor" and before she could direct me I was off! Getting there, there was a sign that said:

DESOLE, HORS SERVICE

I was burning up. I threw my jacket over to Foxy and Sarah and ran ahead back to the top floor where the restaurants were knowing there had to be a working toilet there.

I had never seen a line for a men's toilet until then, so I used the disabled toilet without guilt -- knowing that, at the time, I was technically disabled having just had invasive lung surgery.

After that brilliant, whirlwind tour of the Galleries Lafayette, we made our way down to the lowest level -- the food section where I considered buying a few bottles of wine, but decided against it and chose to feed Africa instead. 

That's a tasty bottle of 18 000 euro wine.