Cell phones in public bathrooms

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Okay, maybe it's just me, but I personally find it disgusting and incredibly rude when people insist on conducting cell phone conversations in public bathrooms. I mean, if your wife calls you and tells you she's having the baby, that's one thing. But I constantly go into our office bathroom and people from the office across the hall are in there just shooting the shit (literally and figuratively) with their buddies.

First of all, I don't want some stranger listening in on me using the restroom. Second, how would you feel having a conversation with someone and then hearing a toilet flush? I've even heard them conducting business calls. It's ridiculous. We have tons of hallways with side rooms, stairwells, and lots of nice landscaped space outside. You have to call from the shitter?

Today I was in there and this guy (he wasn't even a kid...he was in his 40s) was calling about an apartment application. I flushed right in the middle of his call. I don't know about you, but if I was a landlord, calling me from a toilet wouldn't exactly make me eager to take you on as a tenant.

So, deciding I'd had enough, I made a sign:

THIS IS A BATHROOM, NOT A PHONE BOOTH. TALKING ON THE PHONE IN A PUBLIC RESTROOM IS DISCOURTEOUS NOT ONLY TO THOSE AROUND YOU, BUT TO THE PERSON YOU ARE SPEAKING TO. PLEASE TAKE CONVERSATIONS OUTSIDE.
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I stuck it to the mirror. All the coworkers I showed it to applauded the move and the women asked for a copy to put up in their bathroom, where they're having a similar problem. Within an hour of posting it, someone had pulled it down and thrown it away.

So I posted two more. Those were gone in 15 minutes. I'm about to go post three. Am I the asshole here? Is this such an unreasonable request? I'm seriously thinking about going to building management with this.
 
i sometimes talk to people while taking a whiz, but only from the privacy of my home. I think in many aspects besides this bathroom etiquette is lacking.
 
[quote name='Tybee']I stuck it to the mirror. All the coworkers I showed it to applauded the move and the women asked for a copy to put up in their bathroom, where they're having a similar problem. Within an hour of posting it, someone had pulled it down and thrown it away.

So I posted two more. Those were gone in 15 minutes. I'm about to go post three. Am I the asshole here? Is this such an unreasonable request? I'm seriously thinking about going to building management with this.[/QUOTE]

Do you own the business? If not, yeah, you are being an overcontrolling asshole.

If people want to talk in the bathroom on the phone, that's their business and unless they are announcing "HEY TYBEE IS TAKING A SHIT JUST LISTEN" while holding the phone under the stall, it doesn't affect you anyways.

Quit being a douche
 
[quote name='Tybee']

So, deciding I'd had enough, I made a sign:

I stuck it to the mirror. All the coworkers I showed it to applauded the move and the women asked for a copy to put up in their bathroom, where they're having a similar problem. Within an hour of posting it, someone had pulled it down and thrown it away.

So I posted two more. Those were gone in 15 minutes. I'm about to go post three. Am I the asshole here? Is this such an unreasonable request? I'm seriously thinking about going to building management with this.[/quote]

Write it on the wall with a sharpie.

I purposely do a flush when I hear some goofy bitch in the stall next to me gabbing on the phone in the bathroom. I can't go to the bathroom on campus without it happening. Almost makes me wish I could fart on cue. :p
 
If this weren't enough, our HR rep received this e-mail from the building management last week, which she forwarded on to us:

Hi Courtney:
I just wanted to bring to your attention that there was a complaint regarding one of your employees possibly. I was told that a taller women with blonde hair wearing blue jeans and a burgundy and white striped shirt left one of the stalls unflushed and messy this afternoon. Apparently, this woman is always noticed not flushing the toilet behind her which is why the management office was notified.

Please address if you have a woman of this description in your suite.

Just an informal FYI.
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There's no one in our office who fits that description, and we've never seen anyone from across the hall that looks like that either, so we suspect she's coming from one of the other floors. We've taken to calling her "The Blonde Bomber."

What the fuck is wrong with people?

The Internet
Public Restrooms
Xbox LIVE

Three places where people abandon all reason and self-restraint.
 
Thank god the restrooms on campus are so disgusting that I don't bother using them. They are probably used regularly as phone booths. I probably wouldn't be too bothered by it. But certainly the last place I would think of having a convo. is while on the royal throne. We don't have that problem at work, though.
 
[quote name='VioletArrows']Write it on the wall with a sharpie.

I purposely do a flush when I hear some goofy bitch in the stall next to me gabbing on the phone in the bathroom. I can't go to the bathroom on campus without it happening. Almost makes me wish I could fart on cue. :p[/quote]

My wife suggested getting in the next stall and screaming, "OH JESUS...IT'S fuckING TEARING ME IN HALF!!! UNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" And then throwing a tennis ball or something in there, followed by a loud request to borrow some toilet paper.
 
lol, nice...

Oh yeah, uhh... I voted for "...disgusting. WTF? Take it outside. And how about a mercy flush next time?"

I avoid public bathrooms anyway though.
 
[quote name='Tybee']My wife suggested getting in the next stall and screaming, "OH JESUS...IT'S fuckING TEARING ME IN HALF!!! UNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" And then throwing a tennis ball or something in there, followed by a loud request to borrow some toilet paper.[/quote]

[quote name='Sporadic']Quit being a douche[/quote]

!!!
 
I really could care less where another person talks.If my friend talks to me from the shitter,I would laugh at him for calling me from there.
 
I can't talk on the phone and wipe my butt. Seems like too much mult-tasking. What happens if you drop the phone in the toliet at the same time. At the same time, how does Cheapyd play the nintendo ds in the bathroom. Seems like the same thing to me. I wouldn't talk on the phone in the restroom/bathroom anyways. It seems too unclean. Plus, the office co-workers release too much CO2 for my nose. It get release in loud constant steams of bursts at times. I try to stay at one stall away from everyone else.
 
i'd rather have the other person in the bathroom talking loudly on the phone than them being in the stall next to me being quiet while i'm tryin to drop a deuce. You never wanna break the silence, and dropping a deuce isnt quiet business. Their loud talking has already broken the silence and will possibly muffle the deuce dropping and or take the focus off of it.

Not only should you not be putting these signs up, but you should be thanking them for making deuce dropping a more comfortable and less stressful event.
 
[quote name='Cracka']i'd rather have the other person in the bathroom talking loudly on the phone than them being in the stall next to me being quiet while i'm tryin to drop a deuce. You never wanna break the silence, and dropping a deuce isnt quiet business. Their loud talking has already broken the silence and will possibly muffle the deuce dropping and or take the focus off of it.

Not only should you not be putting these signs up, but you should be thanking them for making deuce dropping a more comfortable and less stressful event.[/quote]

I'll do exactly that...As it's happening.
 
[quote name='Sporadic']Do you own the business? If not, yeah, you are being an overcontrolling asshole.

If people want to talk in the bathroom on the phone, that's their business and unless they are announcing "HEY TYBEE IS TAKING A SHIT JUST LISTEN" while holding the phone under the stall, it doesn't affect you anyways.

Quit being a douche[/QUOTE]

I completely disagree.

Limits on phone talking should not just apply to bathrooms, but many public locations where being quiet and non-obtrusive is the norm. While Tybee doesn't have the authority to restrict phones inside the bathroom, I see nothing wrong with the note. It was simply informing the user of how rude it was and to please take conversations elsewhere. That is all.

There are better times and places to have a phone conversation. The bathroom is not one of those times or places.
 
I don't find it disgusting, but certainly annoying. But the same can be said about people talking on the phone in a multitude of other places as well. Personally, my phone is generally on vibrate when I'm anywhere public, and doesn't leave my pocket when I'm on the can.
 
I always talk on the cell-phone when i'm talking a piss. Why? Kill 2 birds with 1 stone. I gotsta pee, and I don't want to say "Hey, gotta urinate talk to you later".

Especially when your talkin' to a dime piece, just make sure to hit the porcilen part of the toilet so no sound is made. I don't give a shit if people think it's 'rude', it's rude that you don't courtesy flush after you eat the Panda Express.
 
Women do this all the time. I witness it at least once a week, no lie. What's hilarious is that as they are having the conversation, they're even making audible grunting noises while they're taking a dump.

Then there's the women who just "hang out" in the bathroom and have a conversation. There's 3 women from another company that are in there every morning talking and blocking the sinks while people use the facilities.

Gross and incredibly annoying. We have a huge building and plenty of places to go around us - is it really necessary to have conversations in the bathroom? :bomb:
 
While mulling over this topic, I remembered this incident a few years ago...

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyc6XFDZ9qk[/media]
 
I saw a guy who was talking to his wife on his cell phone while taking a whiz...

I thought it was pretty strange.
 
I certainly wouldn't conduct business on my phone whilst dropping a deuce, but if it's personal, it's not a big deal. If people don't want others to hear their conversations in the restroom, then they should not talk on the phone there.

Not a big deal for me. As long as people wash their hands when they're done going potty.
 
I make loud fart noises and flush the toilet a lot; It always drives them away. You might think that this is embarassing, but if you wait a minute or two before leaving, no one will know who did it.
 
[quote name='RoboBlue']I make loud fart noises and flush the toilet a lot; It always drives them away. You might think that this is embarassing, but if you wait a minute or two before leaving, no one will know who did it.[/quote]:lol:

Unless the cell phone talker waits for you outside the restroom...
 
I personally can't stand it when people that talk on phones while in public bathrooms. Mainly because 9 times out of 10, they're the same people that don't wash their hands either. I'm one of those guys that always opens the door with a paper towel in hand.
 
As far as public bathrooms go, I can't stand when people use cell phones in there. At my work it's a little different, sometimes people get calls on the floor and it's really the only place you can talk off of your break.

But on campus, etc, I agree with you completely, OP. It's fucking obnoxious.
 
I'm more annoyed when people leave a PUDDLE of piss on the floor. This happens all the time in my office. And there's just two stalls to work with on the whole floor, so it's slim pickins. Shouldn't one feel the slightest remorse that some other poor soul has to wipe YOUR piss just to get within striking range?
 
[quote name='BustaUppa']I'm more annoyed when people leave a PUDDLE of piss on the floor. This happens all the time in my office. And there's just two stalls to work with on the whole floor, so it's slim pickins. Shouldn't one feel the slightest remorse that some other poor soul has to wipe YOUR piss just to get within striking range?[/quote]

But do they piss on the stool lid? That is the question.
 
Is talking on a cell phone everywhere a less-than-courteous habit? Yes. Is talking on a cell phone in a bathroom a little odd? Certainly. But will it rile me up so much that it messes with my day? Not really.
 
[quote name='Tybee']So I posted two more. Those were gone in 15 minutes. I'm about to go post three. Am I the asshole here? Is this such an unreasonable request? I'm seriously thinking about going to building management with this.[/QUOTE]

Next time you put the post-it up hide in one of the stalls until you catch the guy taking them down. Don't forget the camera, and jump out and snap his picture JUST as he's tossing it in the can, and make sure to scream, "GOTCHA YOU SONNOFABITCH!!"

You have as much right to a silent pee as he's got to talk on the phone.

Pics or it didn't happen.
 
I will say that this can be disgusting, but it is their right to talk where they want.

I would never do this, nor would I be happy about it. I would just do something so appalling, it disrupts them. It's annoying, but what can you do besides what I am many others agree upon? :D
 
[quote name='bmachine']They hover.[/quote]

It was quite a revelation to me when I found out that many women in public bathrooms will not actually sit down to pee. It's an image that amuses me very much.
 
Why do people think that talking on a cell in the stall is "disgusting"? Your shit doesn't stink any worse when you have a phone in there. Or maybe it's the fact that the fumes and particulate matter may somehow end up sticking to the phone?
 
[quote name='Sporadic']Do you own the business? If not, yeah, you are being an overcontrolling asshole.

If people want to talk in the bathroom on the phone, that's their business and unless they are announcing "HEY TYBEE IS TAKING A SHIT JUST LISTEN" while holding the phone under the stall, it doesn't affect you anyways.

Quit being a douche[/QUOTE]
it's not my business to hear your business if you're taking a crap. just like i don't want to hear you in class, i don't want to hear you at work, or the doctor office, or any crowded place. shit's irritating! like why do people feel the need to speak on their cell phone in public places knowing someone is standing next to them or a stall away? Luckily, I rarely take shits in a public stall, so I don't have to listen to the stuff, but when I pee I hear a conversation or two.

The only thing I would have changed would be after the first sign, take it straight to the rep. Forget wasting paper. Take it straight to the top and let them handle it.
 
[quote name='dmunkee']I personally can't stand it when people that talk on phones while in public bathrooms. Mainly because 9 times out of 10, they're the same people that don't wash their hands either. I'm one of those guys that always opens the door with a paper towel in hand.[/QUOTE]
i call people out on it. shit's serious - LITERALLY! people get sick all the time from shaking someone's hand who didn't wash
 
[quote name='SeanNOLA']Office bathrooms are for playing DS and shirking your responsibilities, not making phonecalls![/quote]

Don't forget about the cat-naps!
 
[quote name='shieryda']Don't forget about the cat-naps![/QUOTE]
and jacking off! am i right.....anyone?
 
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