Ronnie Perrin. Screencap via Fox News.If you've ever endured a dull office job, you'll understand the unique form of sanctuary that a restroom can provide. Stressful presentation? Colleague badmouthing you behind your back? Disciplinary hearing arranged thanks to an abusive Twitter rant you posted about your boss? Then why not unwind on the throne, play Candy Crush and literally get paid to take a shit.
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Unfortunately, one man's paradise is another man's prison, and for a woman in Washington, DC, this statement of no particular origin revealed itself recently in a single, terrifying incident. Ronnie Perrin, a senior assistant at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had to stay at her office until 10PM booking flights for her boss who was set to travel abroad.Anyway, poor Ronnie was all set to leave when she decided to visit the ladies' room. Given that she was heading home, there was no reason to kill a few minutes of the working day by Snapchatting on the shitter, so she left her phone at her desk. Big mistake. As she emerged from the stall, she realised that the main door for the bathroom had been locked by the late night custodian and she had no means of escape.
Screencap via Fox News.After first trying to smash her way through the wall to the men's room, then trying to go all Cops and bust the door down, she eventually resorted to shoving 200 paper towels through the gap at the bottom in the hopes of signaling someone. Yet it seemed that no white flag was going to free Ronnie from this battle, and she did what any reasonable human person would do: she smashed through the ceiling like the executive assistant-game John McClane.While she didn't crawl to freedom through an air vent, she did find a metal pole in the rafters. By using the pole as a chisel, she managed to break through the drywall adjacent to the door. She then stuck her hand through and opened it from the outside. It probably looked a bit like the scene in The Shining when Jack Nicholson hacks through that door, but in the offices of a nonoperative private charitable foundation as opposed to a haunted hotel – and much more hilarious.