Comments on: Bathroom Etiquette

By: karrie

karrie — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:55:25 +0000

(In case it was not clear, this woman was perched on the toilet in the stall next to me while she made the call.)

By: karrie

karrie — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:54:21 +0000

There was a pretty high-level exec at my last job who would continue chatting to people in adjacent stalls. (Small company).Talk about awkward.

A friend and I overheard what we think was a call girl or some other sex worker, talking loudly into her cellphone, in the old Filene’s bathroom. She was describing a coworker who “pissed all over her chair. And the chair smelled and shit. Yeah, she just pissed her fucking pants, and sat in it. And she’s a big girl, YOU KNOW WHAT I”M SAYIN’? Oh yeah, yeah…and then when the client showed up, she kissed him.” and so on. My friend and I were shaking trying to keep it together and not bust out laughing until we made it back into the store.

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:11:55 +0000

Along the same lines, though more acceptable, my youngest likes to come in whenever I’m brushing my teeth or hair or shaving or whatever, sit down on the toilet and go about his business. He’s nine now and has been doing it forever, so it’s no big deal (we’re a family of six in a one bathroom home). He doesn’t do it as much as he used to, but what’s funny is when he starts up a conversation part way through, and instead of pausing while he’s pushing (if it’s an especially difficult poop), he just keeps motorin’ through his story and he gets that forced speech. (Talk out loud and pretend to force while you’re still talking, if you need to get what I’m saying.)

I’m thinking 10′ll be the cut off for sharing the bathroom with the ol’ man though. Lol. At least when he’s noisy he apologizes. Nothing funnier than hearing all manner of activity down there and then; “sorry dad”.

Wrote a poem about it once. Lol.

By: Shanna

Shanna — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:11:48 +0000

What I hate more than people talking to me in the bathroom is when there are 3+ stalls that are open and someone comes in and chooses the one right next to you.

YOU HAVE THE WHOLE BATHROOM, why do you have to sit so close.

By: hetherjw

hetherjw — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:47:21 +0000

“Sometimes I forget how much of a social retard I am until something like that happens.”

This is her being socially retarded. Talking in bathrooms is just wrong.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:26:39 +0000

Erin … that is disgusting.

BLOG ABOUT IT.

By: hooker

hooker — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:14:34 +0000

yeah. Nothing worse than urinal talk. You walk up. You unsheath… you spit once… you start your engine. you flush.. you walk to the sink. No talk.

By: erinire

erinire — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:10:48 +0000

I’ve been meaning to write something about bathroom etiquette… but the story about the two ladies having a conversation about their respective Vegas vacations while one was taking a huge dump in the handicapped stall was just too disturbing for me to revisit in a full-on blog post.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:33:07 +0000

Gina, I totally get it. And yeah, what DID ever happen to personal space!

By: Gina

Gina — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:21:02 +0000

Bizarre. I find that I get nervous in situations like that and then I can’t finish what I started…if you know what I mean…And then, you know, you try to make noise like pulling out more toilet paper hoping that it’ll break the awkward silence, while saying a silent prayer: “please go away, please go away.” Talk about discomfort. Whatever happened to personal space?!