Thursday, October 30, 2008

Ettiquette

Cell phones do everything these days!

Except - no built in air fresher...

This, more than anything, confirms for me that talking/texting and peeing/pooping should not be done simultaneously.

Not to mention a drop in the toilet will ruin a good bluetooth (even if it does keep working do you really want to wear it on the side of your head?)

When I go to the ladies room (outside of my home, that is - at work, shopping, restaurants, etc.) my focus is on getting in and out without embarrassment (i.e. TP stuck on a shoe) or contraction of a disease. I don't linger, I don't chat with strangers... I rarely chat under/over the stall wall with people I know...

So when I walked into the employee bathroom (a 3 seater that serves 15-20 women from two businesses) and someone - from the other business of course - is in the center stall on the phone I'm totally grossed out.

I go in to a stall (the one next too since she's in the middle) to do what must be done and realize that I can actually hear both sidesr of the conversation. Not that I'm listening! However, I'm in a sense a captive audience (see my Fiber One post if you don't know why!)... and then I realize... and this is the worst...

...she's got an underlying grunt in her words...

(EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!)




...okay I'm back now - I had to go shower...

what else can I say at this point... I hope she drops her phone in the toilet!

NOT the kind of Blackberry Pearls that are supposed to go in there... that's all I'm saying...

4 comments:

Eternal Sunshine said...

You are funeeee!!!

I already told you - this is a HUGE problem at my work. It makes me LIVID just thinking about it.

CoWorker even printed out a recent Dear Abby column about this very subject, and posted it in the restroom. Someone keeps taking it down, so obviously we're not changing anybody with this fight...

for a different kind of girl said...

I see (well, I hear, I don't see, because gah! I don't want to see it!) this happening all the time at the place I work, too. It's shocking to me. I could never do that for the obvious reasons, but I also guarantee I'd drop the dang phone.

I always try to make a really loud effort after of flushing and washing up when the person in the bathroom with me is chatting away. I want the person on the other end of the line to know! Heh...evil...cause I like it.

:)

Lisa said...

I can totally see your point. I think I need to shower just reading this.

Ewww.

dawnmski said...

!!! This happens all. the. time. where I work! I was thinking about doing a posting about it this week!! I hate when people are on the phone in there and I don't know why anyone would want to have a conversation with toilets flushing left and right, either.