I was on a short holiday in the Netherlands last week. The hotel I was staying in had its own café that was open to anyone, not only to guests who booked a room.
The reception for checking in was in the café and while the woman behind the counter was looking up which room was going to be mine, a man came in.
My Dutch is not that good yet, I'm still learning, but I picked up a few words which I will write down here. By all means, anyone who speaks Dutch, correct me
So, he was saying something like: “Ik ben een meester maar nu ik moet vragen. Het toilet?” (He said something more at the beginning of the sentence but I couldn’t understand).
The woman pointed to the left where a big sign even said ‘toilet’.
He slapped his forehead lightly and said something like: “Ah, kijken.”
I'm not that sure about what I heard and it's not complete since I don't know that many Dutch vocabularies yet and I'm unsure about the grammar but I think he was saying that he's a teacher and usually the students are the ones asking for the toilet but here and now he had to do it. And the thing he said with “kijken” meant that he said “Oh well, there's a big sign, I should've looked more thoroughly before asking”, I guess.
He said it as a sentence but I only understood that single word.
Yes, I know it's nothing great or particularly exciting, he didn't even seem desperate. But I still liked the exchange and his humorous demeanour.
I like hearing people asking for the toilet in general because often they’ll ask because they are too desperate to search the toilet on their own. Maybe he needed to go urgently but just didn’t show any signs
