Golden Beaver

WHAT is a male cleaner doing in a woman's washroom?

That what crossed Ms CSLim's mind when she saw the man in the ladies' toilet at Bukit Panjang Plaza last weekend.

Ms Lim, 55, who is in-between jobs, said: 'I had just finished using the toilet and was about to wash my hands when I suddenly realised there was someone behind me.

'I turned around and was shocked to see a male cleaner who had just come out from one of the cubicles.'

Ms Lim said at that time, another woman had been in the toilet with a small child.

'I asked the cleaner what he was doing and why he was in the toilet, but he just waved his hands to indicate that he can't speak or hear,' she said.

Ms Lim said the other woman tried to stop him from leaving, but the cleaner walked past them and went outside.

'We were both very shocked and offended,' she said. Ms Lim decided to follow him.

'I saw him pick up a plastic bucket at the entrance of the toilet and I followed him,' she said.

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Now what did this Ms Lim did was quite extraordinary. She actually lodged a police report, made a complaint to the management of the shopping centre, based on her assumption that the-poor-cleaner-wasnt-carrying-any-tools-so-he-must-be-up-to-something-fishy.

It turns out later that this hearing and speech impaired man was innocent. According to CCTV flashbacks, he actually placed a cleaning sign before entering the ladies toilet. He wasnt carrying any tools because he was merely checking the flushing mechanism.

Ms Lim however, becomes overly suspicious and perhaps to a certain extend sensitive, as if the cleaner would want to peep at her wrinkled beaver or feast on her saggy boobs with his eyes.

You know what? No one's interested. Even if Ms Lim paid me to watch her nude, i rather pay her to retract that offer. And I think the poor cleaner put in that scenario would do just that, to save his appetite.