Phoenix, Az. — (KPNX) It’s not uncommon for restaurants and gas stations to ask customers to make a purchase before using the bathroom, but Ilana Scheinker, more than eight months pregnant, claims she was denied multiple times at a Phoenix, Arizona Starbucks Tuesday morning, even after she said she would buy something.
“The urge hit me as it does many women who have two weeks to go,” she said.
“My husband went up and again reiterated that, ‘My wife is very pregnant,’ ” Scheinker said. “Again he said no. Went back and forth. The man was unrelenting. My husband gave him his credit card and said, ‘Charge me for anything.’ The man refused. A woman standing behind said, ‘I’m about to make a purchase, give me the code and I’ll give it to her.’ “
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