Using cell phones in bathrooms

[Trekker4747]

^No. Cell phones have voice mail, or you can just call the number back later. Nothing is so important that it can't wait 2 minutes until I get off the can.

Alternately, taking a shit shouldn't be so important.

Yes... I mean nothing bad can happen by keeping bile and waste in your colon and bladder. I mean what's the worst that can happen?

 

[DarkHelmet]

^No. Cell phones have voice mail, or you can just call the number back later. Nothing is so important that it can't wait 2 minutes until I get off the can.

Alternately, taking a shit shouldn't be so important.

Yes... I mean nothing bad can happen by keeping bile and waste in your colon and bladder. I mean what's the worst that can happen?

Perhaps I wasn't clear. The "importance" of taking a shit in regards to receiving a call or not while doing so, is, in my opinion, exaggerated.

 

[Goliath]

Frankly, I would be offended if I discovered that someone was taking a shit while they were talking to me on the phone.

Unless it's a matter of life and death, your call can wait until you're done.

 

[Trekker4747]

Frankly, I would be offended if I discovered that someone was taking a shit while they were talking to me on the phone.

Unless it's a matter of life and death, your call can wait until you're done.

Pretty much how I feel. Honestly, I doubt very much the a most of the calls you're hearing in bathrooms are a highly-skilled surgeon talking a lesser doctor through a life-saving procedure, or someone talking someone through landing a plane or off a ledge most of the time it's likely just going to be the same bullshit conversations people have on phones all of the time.

People have gotten way too damn obsessed with their phones over the years and it's gotten to absurd levels. Talking to someone on the phone while you're in the bathroom is just rude. People don't need to hear the sounds of the bathroom, you grunting to push out a loaf and you're just opening yourself up to any number of contamination possiblities.

But if you're going to do it getting mad at someone else in the bathroom doing something (like flushing the toilet) is just the ultimate in DB'ery.

 

[Captain Shaw]

Because I work in a factory and not a office it quite common for me to hear people talking in the bathroom as your not supposed to be on the phone.
I don't mind if it's a one off ie a temp might ring up about a permanent Job they have heard about, but some people are always sneaking off I sometimes wonder what's so important.

 

[milo bloom]

My wife has a sixth sense about this. Whenever she goes out and leaves me with the youngin', she invariably waits till she knows I'm in the bathroom to call about something really inconsequential and/or stupid. Luckily, the offspring is now at an age where he can bring me the phone when it rings so I don't have to leave my spot. I have no problem talking to her on the throne while she tells me about the latest and greatest duvet covers she's found.

Now if I can just get him to bring me a beer and mow the lawn*, we'll be set.

*(he's got one of those little toy push mowers, and loves pushing it around the yard while I'm mowing, so maybe that won't be so hard...)


As for work? I don't like it simply because that's supposed to be a refuge from the phone calls at the desk. So, I like it nice and quiet in there.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

I don't really understand why people would use a cell phone in the bathroom either - especially a public bathroom.

I mean, what if another bathroom patron flushes the toilet in the next stall? Generally, public restroom toilets are loud because there is nothing to absorb sound in those places. And I'm not sure I'd want anyone I was talking to to hear toilets flushing in the background while I was talking to them.

 

[sidious618]

It's the only place I use a cell phone.

 

[Kestra]

Frankly, I would be offended if I discovered that someone was taking a shit while they were talking to me on the phone.

Unless it's a matter of life and death, your call can wait until you're done.

Pretty much how I feel. Honestly, I doubt very much the a most of the calls you're hearing in bathrooms are a highly-skilled surgeon talking a lesser doctor through a life-saving procedure, or someone talking someone through landing a plane or off a ledge most of the time it's likely just going to be the same bullshit conversations people have on phones all of the time.

People have gotten way too damn obsessed with their phones over the years and it's gotten to absurd levels. Talking to someone on the phone while you're in the bathroom is just rude. People don't need to hear the sounds of the bathroom, you grunting to push out a loaf and you're just opening yourself up to any number of contamination possiblities.

But if you're going to do it getting mad at someone else in the bathroom doing something (like flushing the toilet) is just the ultimate in DB'ery.

Seriously. I wait until I'm shopping at the grocery store or driving in the car to make my phone calls.

 

[BolianAuthor]

If I came across someone on a cellphone in a bathroom, I'd make it a point to loudly announce what a mess of squirts I just had, and how big the mess is, that way whoever they're talking to can hear it. Just because I can, and it serves them right for talking on a phone in a freaking bathroom.

 

[Shikarnov]

"hey, I just dropped you in the toilet. I'll call you later."

Believe it or not, that actually happened to a former associate of mine. He dropped his brand new Motorola RAZR (the state of the art phone at the time) in the toilet. Every time we were together after that and he had to use the bathroom, we'd remind him not to forget his phone.

 

[kimc]

I had a former co-worker who would use the ladies room while on a business call and continue the conversation while doing her business. Of course, whenever I was already in there I was left with the dilemma "Do I flush or not flush?". Eventually I decided the situation was beyond any and all etiquette so just continued with my business.

 

[Holdfast]

I've done it with work calls once or twice. *shrug*

 

[Trekker4747]

Frankly, I would be offended if I discovered that someone was taking a shit while they were talking to me on the phone.

Unless it's a matter of life and death, your call can wait until you're done.

Pretty much how I feel. Honestly, I doubt very much the a most of the calls you're hearing in bathrooms are a highly-skilled surgeon talking a lesser doctor through a life-saving procedure, or someone talking someone through landing a plane or off a ledge most of the time it's likely just going to be the same bullshit conversations people have on phones all of the time.

People have gotten way too damn obsessed with their phones over the years and it's gotten to absurd levels. Talking to someone on the phone while you're in the bathroom is just rude. People don't need to hear the sounds of the bathroom, you grunting to push out a loaf and you're just opening yourself up to any number of contamination possiblities.

But if you're going to do it getting mad at someone else in the bathroom doing something (like flushing the toilet) is just the ultimate in DB'ery.

Seriously. I wait until I'm shopping at the grocery store or driving in the car to make my phone calls.

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

Seen it happen way too many times, either people standing at the urinal talking or while they're in the stall. Even saw a guy at a urinal checking his e-mail on his Blackberry - seriously, he couldn't wait two minutes?!?? If I'm on the toilet and I hear a guy on the phone, I tend to make a bit more noise. It's funny what you overhear, too.

No, he couldn't wait. That's why people have bluetooth headsets. They have to be on the phone, constantly. They can never be disconnected. It would be like a borg being removed from the collective. Pretty soon we'll probably be installing communications devices in our skulls.

 

[sidious618]

Seriously. I wait until I'm shopping at the grocery store or driving in the car to make my phone calls.

She was making a joke, mate.

 

[Trekker4747]

Seriously. I wait until I'm shopping at the grocery store or driving in the car to make my phone calls.

She was making a joke, mate.

I know.

That was my way of saying, "Ha!" in a sarcastic manner.

 

[sidious618]

Gotcha.

 

[TheBrew]

Not in a public restroom, but if I will receive calls while on the toilet while at home. Or I will be on the phone and go to the bathroom in the middle of the conversation. Though I only do that with my parents.