{"id":68572,"date":"2026-08-23T04:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/68572\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T04:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:33:08","slug":"no-one-said-a-word-apologised-or-even-made-eye-contact-with-me-indian-american-comedian-zarna-garg-says-she-was-trapped-in-hermes-bathroom-for-80-minutes-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/68572\/","title":{"rendered":"‘No one said a word, apologised or even made eye contact with me’: Indian-American comedian Zarna Garg says she was trapped in Herm\u00e8s bathroom for 80 minutes in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"'No Indian-American comedian Zarna Garg went to a Herm\u00e8s store in Berlin and expected, well, a luxury shopping experience. Instead, she ended up stuck inside its bathroom for about an hour and 20 minutes.And naturally, Garg did what she does best – she started making jokes about it.Garg is currently travelling with her three children, Zoya, Brij and Veer, as part of her Million Dollar Excuses Tour. While in Berlin for a show, she stopped at the luxury fashion house and ended up having an experience she later described as both frightening and frustrating.She documented much of what happened and shared it with her nearly two million followers on Instagram.<\/p>\n

\u2018We thought we\u2019d make a funny video\u2019<\/p>\n

At first, Garg wasn’t particularly worried.She and her team apparently thought the whole thing could become a funny story. From inside the bathroom, she joked about being trapped and even made an origami village out of paper towels while waiting for someone to get the door open.\u201cWe started recording thinking we\u2019ll make a funny video about what you can do when locked in a bathroom,\u201d she wrote in her Instagram post.She also played games, including guessing how many paper towels she was holding.But the joke started to wear thin as the minutes turned into an hour.At one point, Garg pointed out the irony of being stuck inside a bathroom at a store that is known for its famously high standards.\u201cIt is so funny that a place that is so persnickety about perfection, this is happening there,\u201d she said from inside the bathroom.<\/p>\n

The situation became serious<\/p>\n

According to Garg, her team tried to get the store’s managers to take action after the door refused to open. She said they eventually asked staff to call the fire department, but there was reportedly hesitation because of concerns about damaging the door.Garg said she was eventually told to push from inside while people outside tried to work on the door with a crowbar.Firefighters ultimately helped get her out.By then, the humour had pretty much disappeared.When the door finally opened, Garg looked visibly shaken. Her daughter Zoya was there to comfort her.\u201cThank God there was no fire,\u201d Garg said.ID@undefined Caption not available.ID@undefined Caption not available.ID@undefined Caption not available.And that, she pointed out, was one of the more frightening things about the whole situation. If there had been an emergency inside the bathroom, being unable to get the door open could have made things far more serious.<\/p>\n

\u2018No one says a word\u2019<\/p>\n

What upset Garg most, however, was what she says happened after she was finally freed.According to the comedian, no one from the store apologised or appeared to acknowledge what she had just gone through.\u201cAfter an hour and 20 minutes, I make it out. No one says a word, apologises, or makes eye contact with me,\u201d she wrote.She also said an employee later offered her a bottle of champagne, which she declined.\u201cA peace offering?\u201d Garg wrote, adding that she and her family refused it before leaving the store.Garg’s Berlin show was scheduled for August 21 at the Punch Line Club, so the bathroom ordeal happened just before she was due to take the stage.<\/p>\n

Zarna Garg had the perfect punchline<\/p>\n

Despite being understandably angry about the experience, Garg couldn’t resist taking one final swipe at Herm\u00e8s.\u201cHow ironic that the company that makes a bag that is impossible to open and close now has a bathroom door that is impossible to open and close,\u201d she wrote.She then ended with: \u201cUseless bag, useless door, useless people.\u201dIt’s very much the kind of punchline you’d expect from Garg. But behind the joke was an experience that clearly left her shaken.Garg, who grew up in Mumbai and later moved to the US, was a lawyer before turning to stand-up comedy in her 40s. Much of her comedy draws from her experiences with Indian families, motherhood, marriage and immigrant life.She is now travelling the world with her comedy special – although after this particular Berlin stop, she may have a very different memory of her trip to Herm\u00e8s.Herm\u00e8s had not publicly responded to Garg’s allegations as of the time of the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indian-American comedian Zarna Garg went to a Herm\u00e8s store in Berlin and expected, well, a luxury shopping experience.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12919],"tags":[42255,4953,42254,42256,42257,41878],"class_list":["post-68572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hermes","tag-berlin-comedy","tag-hermes","tag-hermes-bathroom-incident","tag-indian-american-comedian","tag-trapped-in-bathroom","tag-zarna-garg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}