Cell phones in the john: a Really Bad Idea

[Elidor]

I know SO many people (even at work!) who take their cell phones in the bathroom with them. For those of you who didn't get the memo: that is so fucking disgusting. The last thing anyone wants to hear on the other end of their phone is the sound of your flushing toilet. Please. Pretend you have some level of decorum. I am sorry if this makes me a telecommunications bigot. But keep your shit to yourself.

This has been a public service announcement by Hardhead.

[proud patriot]

1. LOL

:rofl:

I don't own a cell phone

[Book Lover]

2. You know, I'm a hardcore cell rights kinda gal

but here I completely agree. The toilet is a bad place to chat. Besides, do you want to drop your phone?!

[flamingyouth]

3. Yes!

[philosophie_en_rose]

4. No phones in the bathroom! No TALKING in the bathroom!

Maybe I'm flawed as a woman or as a human being, but I just do not enjoy having a discussion in the middle of the bathroom.

At work, there is an annoying moran who actually follows people into the bathroom and speaks to them, while they're in the stall!!!

Talking outside of the stalls is fine, but no talking during bodily functions. None.

[Bouncy Ball]

8. that's how I am

it's always kind of awkward/uncomfortable when I'm with my more laid-back as far as bodily functions go friends.

[tuvor]

5. In the dinosaur years of cell phones...

About 12 years ago, I was in Edmonton talking to some computer guy back in Toronto. He was so thrilled to be talking on his cel phone from the toilet.

"Hi, Bill. Uh...Are you in the bathroom?"

"Yeah, tuvor! I'M PINCHIN' A LOAF!"

[Bouncy Ball]

9. Niiiiice.

Good to know right?

:puke:

[latebloomer]

32. "Pinchin a loaf"!

I have never heard that expression from anyone but my husband!

LOL!!

[elshiva]

6. When I was in a dorm...

another (woman) student would come into the stall next to me and talk on her blasted cell phone. She'd be like "We're having a pooping party" to the person on the other end. :puke:

[Bouncy Ball]

11. I've talked to women in their early 20s

and I don't know if things have changed, but when I was in college, none of my friends were quite as open about talking about.....that.

Oh we'd belch, we'd even make jokes about farting.

But that? Never.

[elshiva]

13. Just talking while you are pooping on the phone is distasteful.

[Bouncy Ball]

14. I think talking PERIOD while doing that is distasteful

(notice I can't even bring myself to type it? I have issues).

I was seeing a movie with a friend and we went to the ladies' room before it started and not only did she talk to me throughout the process, she freaking DESCRIBED IT TO ME.

I thought I'd lose my dinner right there. She was also kind of immature and we didn't hang out as much after that. Damn, I don't care to know the details, you know?

[elshiva]

15. Yes. Bathroom conversation should be limited to

"Do you have any spare toliet paper/pads?" Nothing else is necessary except in case of an emergency of course.

[Bouncy Ball]

7. I was talking to my friend once

and heard some water or something. Then a toilet flushing and I said "Were you talking to me while you were going to the bathroom?" and she said "Yeah, so what?"

To be fair, people did that even with cordless phones, not just cell phones.

I won't do it. I agree, that's gross.

[Elidor]

19. Cordless phones? How the fuck do you do that, anyway?

My god. That's even tackier than with a cell phone. I can just picture the cord stretched taut from the bathroom door to the phone jack on the wall, and a blabbermouth voice coming from the other side of the door...

[Bouncy Ball]

22. Yes, cordLESS phones.

Remember those?

Not with a cord.

[Elidor]

24. Uhh...reading comprehension impaired

I plead chabli...I mean the 5th.

[Bouncy Ball]

25. ROFL!!!

'Salright!

I figured you just read it wrong.

[Skittles]

10. I got very angry at a coworker in a neighboring stall at work

I yelled I DON'T APPRECIATE YOUR HUSBAND LISTENING TO ME PISS. She has not done it since. :o

[Bouncy Ball]

12. I bet she was afraid you'd kick her ass.

Plus besides it being gross (hello, are you putting the phone back into the hand you just WIPED with???), I'm always thinking "what if they DROP the phone into the toilet?"

:puke:

[Skittles]

28. it is just so freaking disgusting and discourteous

un-freaking-believable. And it's not just the young people - all in all I would have to say people of my generation are the worst g.d. offenders.

[progressoid]

16. Umm, it's not the sound of flushing...

Its the SPLOOSH or the the grunting that would wig me out.

[Bake]

27. BINGO!

Or the loud fart ...

Bake

[FunkyLeprechaun]

17. Get a Sidekick

and AIM the person while on the loo.

Oh forgot to mention: I'm deaf so I have a sidekick.. when my mum really (and I mean REALLY) wants to talk to me and I've got to go to the loo, I take it with me and type along.

It's kind of handy: no peeing/pooing/farting/flushing noise for the person to listen to. That's a bonus.

[Elidor]

20. That is perfectly okay

They'll never know.

[shesemsmom]

18. ROTF LMAO!!!!!!!

:rofl: WELL PUT!!!!!!!

[texas1928]

21. Well you are already doing paperwork.

So why not take care of other business at the same time.

:shrug:

:P

[last_texas_dem]

23. I kinda think it's funny

My best friends and I have discussed this and have decided that it's a sign that you really trust and feel close to a person if you are willing to talk on the phone to them while taking a dump.

I guess we're kinda gross, though...

FWIW I would rather people go to the bathroom to talk on their cell phones than blab away on them in stores or restaurants or while driving.

[orleans]

26. bathroom cell phone talking is not a good no matter how you look

at it.

plus--there's too much of an ECHO, echo,




echo

[immoderate]

29. Bourgeois

--IMM

[giant_robot]

30. So what? Have fun with it!

Sit in the next stall and answer the asshole like you don't know s/he's on the phone and s/he's talking to you! I'm sure s/he'll get really upset, like you're being the rude one!

[Samurai_Writer]

31. Not only that...

but all the tile in the bathroom amplifies your voice, so anyone with offices nearby can hear EVERY word. I have an employee that does that, takes his cell phone in the john for 'private' conversations. My office is right across from the bathrooms, and I hear every word.

[latebloomer]

33. I ALWAYS check my land-line messages

while going to the ladies' room at work.

I don't talk to anyone, though, except my mama and my huz. And not while pooping.

TMI??