Talking On A Cell Phone While "Using" A Stall In The Restroom At Work

[Beetwasher]

Seriously, WTF is wrong w/ some people?

[Goblinmonger]

1. Did you fart really loud?

You know the kind that echos in a bathroom so that the person on the other end knew they were in the bathroom.

Or was this phone sex?

[Beetwasher]

5. I Was Tempted

To make really loud moaning and grunting sounds.

[Blue-Jay]

55. I always do that if someone is talking at the next urinal.

If I've got the "ammo", that is.

[alarimer]

2. I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of that conversation

I can't even stand it when people talk to me in the bathroom. I do not like to use public restrooms if someone else is in there.

[Beetwasher]

6. Yeah

I'm pretty much the same way.

[SeattleGirl]

3. I don't get it either.

It's gross.

[underpants]

4. Look the rule is if there is already a guy in the stall LEAVE

Sorry I just had to say that. Man that pisses me off to no end.

Cell phone? That is WEIRD!

[Beetwasher]

7. Yeah

I was actually using the urinal, but still.

[NewWaveChick1981]

8. This is one of my major pet peeves!

:grr: :nuke: I always make sure to flush the toilet repeatedly when someone's carrying on a conversation in the can. :mad: I did that at Chick-Fil-A one time because the woman in the next stall was having a work conversation while taking care of "business". I flushed the toilet twice (and it was a LOUD toilet), and I heard her say, "Yes, I'm in the bathroom. Sorry." :rofl: Serves her right...

[Beetwasher]

11. I Didn't Think of That!

That's a good idea.

[NewWaveChick1981]

17. Works every time...

:rofl: It gets the offender in sooooo much trouble... :P :rofl:

[Hugin]

12. Ooo... I feel a storm brewing!

You GO Chick!

:popcorn:

[NewWaveChick1981]

18. ...

:rofl: :hi:

[madinmaryland]

14. You owe me a new keyboard!!1!!

:spray:

[NewWaveChick1981]

19. ...

:rofl: :hi:

[Hav]

24. .

Hahahahaa!

"Yeah, I'm taking a shit right now..."

[NewWaveChick1981]

31. ...

:spray: :rofl:

[krispos42]

68. Brilliant! n/t

[LostinVA]

9. It happens to me at least once a day -- weird

[Beetwasher]

10. Once A Day???

!

[LostinVA]

21. Sometimes more

Last week I had TWO people in stalls chatting on their cells at the same time.

[demrabble]

39. I Do Hope

I do hope that the two people you heard chatting on cell phones were not talking to each other.

That would have been totally out of place -- and gross.

[krispos42]

69. Oh, dear...

I can see it now...

"Bob, can you call my cell? I hate shouting over these stalls!"

<ring>

"Thanks, Bob. Hey, you got any extra TP over there?"

[itsmesgd]

13. I always get a call when I'm standing at the porcelain pedestal.

I'ts hard to keep my mind (and hands) on my business while "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" is coming from my pocket.

[Initech]

15. I've seen that before many times - WTF?

:wtf:

Honestly, I think people that abuse cell phones like that should be classified as mentally disabled. You can't wait to call someone five minutes while you go take a piss?

[Beetwasher]

16. Worse

Not a piss.

[ContraBass Black]

20. *SPLASH* "Hello? What? I'm still here."

[spindrifter]

22. Yeah, I had someone talk to me from the

restroom. I felt like telling this person it was ok to call me back, seeing as how she probably need to wash her hands and stuff...
I would love to have a loud flushing sound to play from an undisclosed location so people would think my cube mates are in the toilet while making their calls.

[jus_the_facts]

23. Gotta take those types o'people in small excrements....

:hurts:


:D :hi: :loveya:

[Beetwasher]

25. Ha!

:hi:

[jus_the_facts]

27. You better let me know as soon as you become a Daddy....

....with pictures too o'course!! ;-)

:hug:

[demrabble]

26. Some Times It Is Essential

Some times, it is necessary to be on the phone while using a stall.

But when it is, people should still use their "inside the stall" voices.

[Beetwasher]

28. I Disagree

Unless it's life or death, there's nothing that can't wait a few minutes for you to finish your business.

[demrabble]

36. Even If It Is Not Life or Death

There are some times -- and they are rare times -- when it is essential to use a cell phone while you are using a stall in a public restroom.

For instance, if your children are in daycare, and the day care center requires that you call before a certain time. If that time happens to be while you are in a stall, then you cannot wait until you finish.

Or if your children call you with a problem while you are in a stall.

But in any event, the time spent on a call while in a stall should be very brief. And the voice you use should be very low.

[Beetwasher]

40. Nope, Not Essential

Call before you go in then. If the call comes when you're in stall, finish quickly and call back.

[demrabble]

41. We'll Just Have To Disagree About This.

Sometimes, someone doesn't have enough time to make a phone call when the "urge" to go hits.

But I am glad to see that we apparently agree that it is not essential for someone to turn off their cell phone completely when entering a stall.

[Beetwasher]

42. I Don't Bring My Cell Phone Into A Stall W/ Me

I didn't think about that actually, so I can't say I agree w/ that either. I guess it's ok if you don't turn it off if you happen to have it on you, but it's not ok to answer it. If it rings, stop it and call back later when you're done unless you know it's really, really important and just can't wait. I guess if you're in there and the daycare calls and you know it's really important that's ok, but it's NEVER ok to MAKE a call from there, even to daycare.

[skygazer]

29. It is never essential to use a phone while on the toilet

Unless you're on the phone to 911 reporting the fact that you've just passed a muskrat. And even then, it's kinda doubtful.

[Gormy Cuss]

32. ~

A muskrat?
:rofl:

[skygazer]

33. I don't know where these things come from

I just go with them.... :shrug:

[Beetwasher]

34. And It's Good You Do!

That was funny as hell!

[BuelahWitch]

87. I agree

And having a phone installed in your BATHROOM? OY!

[Deja Q]

30. Better on the can than while on the job.

I'm sick of coworkers using their phones on the fuckin' job. For personal shit.

[bigwillq]

35. I've done that before.

Don't see anything wrong with it.

I do it at home too.

and most of my friends do the same.

[Beetwasher]

37. If You're At Home It's A Bit Different

In a public restroom it's downright rude. Now you know, not that you'll change your behavior, I'm sure, but it's rude.

[bigwillq]

43. Why is it rude?

:shrug:


Most times, there's no one ever in there.

And another thing, who are you to tell me what I can or cannot do when I am on the toilet?

:shrug:

[Beetwasher]

45. I Didn't Tell You What You Can And Can't Do

Do whatever you want, I'm just telling you it's rude to do it in a public restroom. I guess you don't care about how your actions affect other people, that's fine, it's your right, but it's rude and makes other people uncomfortable as you can tell from the majority of people who posted in this thread. If it makes other people uncomfortable, it's rude.

[demrabble]

47. Is It Also Rude To Use A Cell Phone?

Is it also rude to use a cell phone in the following places?:

1. Fancy Restaurant.

2. Fast Food Restaurant

3. Subway

4. Bus

5. Grocery Store (While Shopping)

6. Grocery Store (While Standing in line to check out)

7. Post Office (while being waited on)

[bigwillq]

49. It's rude to use it when being waited on

or in a fancy restaurant when other people are trying to eat dinner.

The other places I don't think it's rude.

[Beetwasher]

76. It Depends

Some yes, some no.

[Maddy McCall]

53. Because you are involving others in the "situation."

It *is* rude.

For one, phone manners are freakin' atrocious these days, anyway. People have no respect for others when they drag them into their personal lives by forcing others to hear the intimate details of their lives. Excusing one's self to talk on the phone was what I was taught. Evacuating one's bowels while talking on the phone in a PUBLIC restroom is just bad manners and puts other people in an uncomfortable position.

Maybe it's just a generational thing--I don't know. But shitting whilst talking to a friend would have definitely been considered a huge etiquette no-no in my home, had we had the technology to be on the phone while shitting.

[bigwillq]

54. I think it is a generational thing.

I have no problem with it if other people do the same thing. Doesn't bother me at all; doesn't make me uncomfortable.

It's not really up to me to tell a person when and where they can use their cell phone that they pay for.

I think it's a riot to hear other people's conversations. If they don't mind putting it out there, I don't mind hearing out and the same goes for me.

[Skittles]

57. common courtesy is not generational

the behavior you are describing is rude, rude, RUDE

[bigwillq]

60. Think of me whatever you will.

I really don't care.

It's my cell phone and I will choose to use wherever and whenever I want to.

It's not like the bathroom is jam-packed.
Most times no one is in there.
And if they are so be it, I will never judge anyone or think they are rude because they choose to be using their cell phone while going to the bathroom or in any other place they care to use it.

[Skittles]

84. people who are rude usually DON'T care

THAT IS WHY THEY ARE F***ING RUDE - to use a cell phone in a public restroom is not only RUDE it is DISGUSTINGLY UN-HYGIENIC

[Maddy McCall]

74. And gross gross, GROSS.

Washing one's hands after using the bathroom is one thing. But how does one clean his or her phone after holding it AFTER taking a dump and supposing said shitter cleaned their rear properly.

Fecal matter on cell phones. Appealing.

[bigwillq]

80. I usually hang up

put the phone in my pocket and then wipe.

Then I go and wash my hands.

No fecal matter on my phone! :P ;) :P

[Gormy Cuss]

59. I think it's less generational and more whether one views consideration of others as a priority.

It's not restricted to young people -- I've witnessed 50 and 60 year olds talking in public restrooms. Rarely have I observed someone taking a call that seemed to be urgent. It's usually making dates or business appointments, talking about dating or relationship troubles, or discussing dinner plans. It's as if they're afraid to let any minute go by without using their monthly allotment of air time.

There is also a weird cocooning effect with some cell users. I've heard far too many intimate details of sex lives, abuse, medical problems, etc. than I care to recall and far too often I've seen people end calls abruptly once they realize that their 'private' conversation has been heard by everyone around them.

I can understand emergency calls, or brief calls when running late or the like, but engaging in protracted conversations with a captive audience (like the other people in public restrooms or in restaurants or on mass transit) is just self-centered.

[demrabble]

70. How About Protracted Conversations Not Using Cell Phones?

I really don't see how using a cell phone in a place with a "captive audience" is that much different from having a regular conversation with someone else while in a place with a "captive audience".

Should one person in a stall not talk to another person in another stall simply because there are other people in the rest room?

Should people not have "protracted conversations" with friends while they are in a restaurant?

Is it self-centered to have a long conversation with two or three friends while on the subway?

What is the difference between talking on a cell phone in public and simply having a face-to-face conversation in public?

Why is one "rude" and the other OK?

[Gormy Cuss]

73. Three things. One, protracted conversations in the john are always rude.

Second, loud conversations that disturb those around you are just as self centered and rude in restaurants or on subways et cetera. Of course, it's rare that you find people having long conversations over the stalls in a public bathroom and based on my many years of riding mass transit I can say that it's not that common to find groups talking on subways either, but when one does, if it is done without regard for how much it imposes on others, it's rude. Plenty of people have normal conversations on the subway, but it's rarely done in a manner that makes it difficult for others to ignore. Kids yucking it up and drunks on late night trains are the usual suspects. I've never heard someone yelling to some one else about the details of their last date or their medical procedure on a train, but I've heard cell callers do both.

Third, a key difference between being near cell callers and those having a face-to-face conversation is that with a cell phone what's heard is not a conversation. It's one half of a conversation and that can and does cause confusion because those around hear someone pose a question or make a statement and no one acknowledges it. The polite reaction to determine whether the speaker is talking to you. That means it's a disruption, even if slight, every time a new person starts speaking. At least when one overhears a conversation it's obvious that the speaker is directing the comment or question to someone else.
There are transit systems where cell usage is discouraged because the passengers have made it clear that they don't want to ride in this Babel.

[Beetwasher]

77. A Restroom Is Not Subway

The activity you are engaged in in a restroom is much different than on a subway, much more private and personal. It is a MAJOR breach in etiquette to have a "stall to stall" conversation in a public restroom.

[Skittles]

56. it is rude ANY TIME

I was paged by a guy at 0200 - when I talked to him (he was at his home) I cut him off and said, ARE YOU PISSING? He said, sorry, I'll call you back. The f***ing NERVE.

[Phillycat]

38. I do it at home but not at work.

It's too echo-y at work. :rofl:

[bigwillq]

44. LOL!

:rofl:

[MikeH]

46. I fully agree -- one of my pet peeves

I don't like the sound of my doing my private necessary thing in the restroom being transmitted over someone else's cell phone.:mad: :evilgrin:

And neither do I like hearing bathroom noises at the other end of a phone conversation.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

48. One of my friend's husband used to pull his laptop into the bathroom...

He would take care of business while taking care of business.
Duckie

[demrabble]

50. As Long As He Wasn't Bothering Anybody...

As long a your friend's husband wasn't bothering anybody, there shouldn't have been a problem.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

75. There isn't ...

I just thought it was interesting and funny.
Duckie

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

82. I usually just take a book ...

... but a laptop? Hmmm, with wireless LAN in my house, I can even post on DU ...

:sotpl: Dang. no smilie for "sitting on the pot laughing".

[Book Lover]

51. How can you all crap with these corks so far up yer butts?

Maybe no one else here had a phone in their bathrooms when growing up.... You all have to take a chill pill, people. It's just the can. Sounds don't travel all that far on the phone, anyway, which you would know if you had actual experience with this!!!

[BuelahWitch]

64. Yes sounds DO travel that far on the phone

The first time I heard someone taking a piss while on the phone was when they were talking to ME about tracking a package. This was before cell phones so this person must have had a phone in the john or had taken a cordless in there. I heard her tinkling while we discussed when her package was supposed to arrive. I thought she was the rudest person I'd ever come across.

[Book Lover]

65. I never had a complaint

nor did anyone else in my family. Yes, we had a phone installed in the bathroom. Big. Fucking. Deal.

[bigwillq]

66. I agree with ya.

:thumbsup:

[Book Lover]

67. Thank you

I just don't get the ... what, ickiness, people are expressing in this thread. Like it's a huge secret that people pee or crap.

[BuelahWitch]

85. Delete

See reply below

[BuelahWitch]

86. Besides as a phone operator I couldn't say

"What kind of a PERVERTED PIG are you that you call me and make me listen to you tinkle? Call a fucking 900 number and play your scat games!" I wanted to say it, but never did.

[Beetwasher]

78. Your Restroom At Home Is Not A Public Restroom

There is a difference. At home you are not imposing on strangers w/ your behavior.

[Maddy McCall]

52. I posted about the same thing before. Girl in a stall next to me, taking a dump...

all the while telling her boyfriend, "I love you so much." *fart* *splatter* "I can't wait to see you tonight." *squeek* *ploop*

I could NOT believe my ears. Disgusting and graceless.

[Lady Effingbroke]

61. Gawrsh, how romantic!

:P

Seriesly, you know the romance is over when your SO thinks nothing of taking a dump while you are enjoying a hot, steamy shower. x(

[Maddy McCall]

72. Where in HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?

Hey you! Good to see you here.

:hi:

And LOL about the dump/shower scenario. It's the truth! :rofl:

[montanto]

58. Is it a problem that I am posting

this from the bathroom stall at work while I take a dump? :hurts:

[Arugula Latte]

62. "Uh, could you hang on a sec? I've gotta wipe..."

x(

[HCE SuiGeneris]

63. THE Definitive rules for Male Bathroom Behavior are here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzO1mCAVyMw

Careful...

[XemaSab]

79. Fuck yeah!

:bounce:

[AlCzervik]

71. the problem-people are stupid.

[Generic Brad]

81. Personally I don't care where people choose to use their cell phones

But when strangers try to make me shush up while I am using the toilet so they do not get embarrassed by the bathroom noises I do have a tendency to get steamed. That is rude.

[bigwillq]

83. HA! I just did it!

Used my phone while in the stall. No one else was in there though!

:woohoo:

You can hate me now, but I can't stop now! :bounce:



Later Lizards!

I am leaving work!

:hi:

[Bzzzz]

88. Can't be any worse...

than when I play solitaire on my cell phone while taking a good healthy one at work. They probably wonder what all the little "beep beep beep" is.

[LostInAnomie]

89. Remind me to never borrow anyone's cell phone.

:9 ... Oh, I mean :puke: