Masha
A few days ago, a woman named Zara Rahim tweeted out a truly legendary story about Rihanna using a public restroom.
I had a very long day so as a form of Twitter therapy I wanted to share a story about @rihanna and the time we used a public restroom together.
— Zara Rahim (@ZaraRahim) January 18, 2019
Rihanna came to an event she was scheduled to speak at just over a year ago. She late. She was very late. (for the record: she can be late, she’s Rihanna, and she was wearing Margiela.)
— Zara Rahim (@ZaraRahim) January 18, 2019
Rahim, who is the head of communication for women-owned work and community space The Wing, explained how Rihanna was running late to speak at an event and how she needed to pee before giving her talk. The private bathroom was too far away, so Rih decided to use the public one.
Rih really needed to pee when she arrived. I told her we could take her to the private restroom upstairs. Nope. Too far. She was going to use the closest one. The public restroom.
— Zara Rahim (@ZaraRahim) January 18, 2019
She explained how she was “in a full internal spiral” leading the singer to the bathroom, knowing full well it would be stuffed with Rihanna fans.
Extremely nervously and in a full internal spiral, I lead her to the women’s restroom, knowing there was going to be a lot of women in there because the attendees were waiting for her to close the day out and taking a break from sitting in the room idly until she started.
— Zara Rahim (@ZaraRahim) January 18, 2019
Sure enough, a line. Oh god, this is bad. No security. Just *Zara and Rihanna* heading into a public ass restroom packed with Navy of varying degrees — but all definitely Navy.
— Zara Rahim (@ZaraRahim) January 18, 2019
Rahim went on: “The women were so slow to realize what was happening…Once things registered, I swear to God I’ve never heard noises emitted from women’s bodies like that. Imagine something I can only describe as something between screaming, crying, joy, and confusion?”
The women were so slow to realize what was happening — just from the pure shock. Once things registered, I swear to God I’ve never heard noises emitted from women’s bodies like that. Imagine something I can only describe as something between screaming, crying, joy, and confusion?
— Zara Rahim (@ZaraRahim) January 18, 2019
Understandable, tbh.
Not only did Rihanna choose to use a public restroom, she didn’t even cut the line.
Rihanna was *not* gonna skip the line. She waited!!!!! She made small bathroom like talk!!!!! She’s just like that except way hotter, richer and better smelling!!!! A real woman’s woman!!!!
— Zara Rahim (@ZaraRahim) January 18, 2019
“This was a very small bathroom,” Rahim recalled. “She was waiting for a stall to open up and I’ll never forget the woman who opened the stall door and her mouth dropped. Rihanna was standing there. Waiting to use the toilet she just used.”
This was a very small bathroom. Three stalls. Maybe four. She was waiting for a stall to open up and I’ll never forget the woman who opened the stall door and her mouth dropped. Rihanna was standing there. *Waiting to use the toilet she just used*
— Zara Rahim (@ZaraRahim) January 18, 2019
Picture it: You do your business, finish up, open the bathroom door, and RIHANNA is standing there.
And then this happened:
Rihanna, without skipping a beat, looking directly at this very shocked woman, in her extremely Rihanna way, says “I hope you didn’t take a shit girl!!!!!”
— Zara Rahim (@ZaraRahim) January 18, 2019
Same.
KssjxkmesoaxmneisoqkdnnxskoqI…😭
— Zara Rahim (@ZaraRahim) January 18, 2019
On top of that, Rihanna then exited, washed her hands, used the lotion…
She came out and washed her hands. She used the lotion (I didn’t know people *actually* used the lotion dispenser after washing their hands!!! I do it now because Rihanna did it then and I’m trying to emulate rich successful behaviors)
— Zara Rahim (@ZaraRahim) January 18, 2019
And proceeded to say and do this:
The dispenser was malfunctioning because it realized it was in the presence of Rihanna. She had too much lotion on her hands.
She said “Give my your hands. You’re ashy sis!!!!”
She rubbed her beautiful, tattooed, perfectly manicured hands on on my hands.
— Zara Rahim (@ZaraRahim) January 18, 2019
Was it all a dream?
I couldn’t stop looking at our hands intertwined. I didn’t even bother to look up. Time stopped.
She was gone before I knew it.
— Zara Rahim (@ZaraRahim) January 18, 2019
No, because Rahim documented the aftermath of the hand lotion exchange.
omg i found the video i took after pic.twitter.com/k6jdbtuftU
— Zara Rahim (@ZaraRahim) January 20, 2019
The reactions on Twitter were very, very understandable.
https://twitter.com/WendyBrandes/status/1086105289454247936
I want Rihanna to call me ashy 😩
— ⭐ (@lucidinreality) January 18, 2019
Didn't know I needed this thread but I did. https://t.co/HY13r0yyhY
— queen of life nice. thank you, more please (@zoemercedes_) January 21, 2019
A legend. We stan.
h/t BuzzFeed
