Talking on the Phone in the Bathroom

[McDreidel09]

I'm seeing a rising trend with this in my dorm hall and it kinda freaks me out.

Our bathrooms are just like public bathrooms. There are stalls. The stalls do not come with sound barriers, like some people tend to think. If you are going to come into the bathroom, please get off the phone. I don't care if you are okay with the person on the other end hearing you go to the bathroom. They can hear me too and I don't care for that. We don't get that much privacy and I would like to keep that little privacy I have left, thank you very much.

If I were the person on the other line, I would tell the person to call me back when they are done with their business.

I know that I am in a semi public bathroom and that others will hear me, but I just want to keep it to people who are physically in the bathroom.

Honestly, your conversation cannot be THAT important where you can't tell the other person that you will call them back in five minutes. I know it's not important because I can hear you go "Oh hell no! That bitch did not do that! If that were MY man, I would punch her in the face!"

I seriously can't wait to get that apartment next school year. I don't have to deal with that there.

[Eisa]

Oh, I hate this. I hate this so, SO much. People do that at my uni, too. Thank Gawd I'm in a suite, so we have a bathroom that's not stalls. But to venture out anywhere encounters these people. I'm honestly baffled at why you would want to keep talking while you pee. I think it's one thing for someone to call you while you're in there...especially if you're close to done, and it's important, I can see answering the phone. I've done that once or twice [although usually it's to say "Hey I'm in the bathroom, can I call you right back?" ] But...carrying on a loud, dramatic conversation? WHY?

[Ipecac Drano]

Making any kind of unnecessary noise in a restroom is wrong. It's kinda creepy when someone is whistling while answering nature's call.

[Peppergirl]

I completely agree.

I'm always appalled when I'm working and am speaking to a customer and then hear the toilet flush.

I also find myself wondering what their mothers would think. I know if my mom ever caught me doing such a thing, I'd never hear the end of it.

Bottom line, I was raised better than this and I hope I raised my boys better than that. I'd truly be appalled if I ever found out they carried on conversations while using the bathroom.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

To me it's not just the phone in the bathroom, but the excessive phone use in general.

While phones are great and useful to have around, there are people who I swear would implode if they didn't have someone to talk to at all times of the day.

The last time I hung out with a friend of mine (and I do mean "the last" time) it was no fun for me at all. She was the one who invited me and my wife to hit the town with her and to catch up on old times.

Not that there was much catching up, as soon as she hung up from one call she either had to check her voice mail for the call that came in while on the other call (and then call that person back), or the phone would ring within 3-5 minutes.

She actually had the gall to complain that we weren't talking all that much and wondered why she invited us in the first place if we were going to be spoil-sports. And that was when my wife (backed up by me) verbally ripped her a new asshole. Or at least tried. the phone kept ringing or bleeping that there were new texts while she tried.

Now I don't mind if while I'm talking to someone and they look at the ringing phone and then lets it hit voicemail. I don't even mind if someone says "excuse me, it's my wife" and then answers and gets off quick for something important.

But the new trend is to drop off in the middle of a conversation with the real live person in front of you, to have a 30 minute conversation with someone else.

In the encounter with my friend, we had lunch. We tried to anyway. It's rude as hell to order when not everyone is ready (she hadn't even read the menu or even noticed the waitress asking her for her drink order). We could have ordered, had our food brought out to us and eaten it by the time her conversation ended. And then we would have had to wait for her order to be placed and then wait for her to eat it.

That is the trend that scares me. That there are people who have become so dependent on being connected to everyone else that they for whatever reason do not think that they can function without that connectivity...even if they are in a group of friends.

You want to see something sad? Go to a mall and watch the gaggle of teenagers (a group of 4-6 of them) and see every one of them on a phone talking to someone else.

The funny thing is, everyone said that the Internet was going to kill social interactions. That Everquest and World of Warcraft, ICQ and AOL Instant messenger, chat rooms, and whatnot were going to kill real-world social interactions.

They were dead farking wrong. It was the cell phone.

[MaggieTheCat]

The funny thing is, everyone said that the Internet was going to kill social interactions. That Everquest and World of Warcraft, ICQ and AOL Instant messenger, chat rooms, and whatnot were going to kill real-world social interactions.

They were dead farking wrong. It was the cell phone.

This is basically what happened to a friend of ours, K (I've complained about him here and on CS before.) He's in our D&D group, but he spends the majority of each session playing around on his phone. I've said multiple times before, I want to take that phone and fling it out the window, especially when he interrupts a gaming session to show us the latest YouTube video. ><

[Dreamstalker]

My stepfather would take the phone into the bathroom, I once asked him why and got the answer "multitasking/saves time". Really? Wow, one whole minute Is your boss/interviewee impressed by the background noises?

The ex would call me while he was on the can and brag about it...he once tried to call me while he was in the shower (that was interesting, I got to hear the phone get drowned).

[Andara Bledin]

He's in our D&D group, but he spends the majority of each session playing around on his phone.

I had a GM that had a similar problem with a handful of easily distracted gamers. He had a simple solution. If you were distracted when it was time for you to do something, you got one warning of "back in the bag." If you didn't heed that one warning, then every subsequent time you weren't paying attention, your character then spent the next turn/phase/etc drooling. Literally.

And then the player had to figure out how to deal with people reacting to that.

^-.-^

[Android Kaeli]

Everytime that someone is on the phone in the bathroom, I keep flushing the toliet in my stall to try and prove that, hey, you're in the bathroom. There's no need for a phone to be stuck on your ear when you're in the bathroom, unless there's an emergency going on.

[ExRetailDrone]

I've used the phone while in the bathroom once. A call about a possible job came through while I was in there, and my husband decided to pass it to me. But I was at home, and I didn't make a noise while I was on the phone, because that is just utterly rude, not to mention unprofessional as hell. I don't understand people who would do that on a regular basis and flush mid-sentence

And I agree about the cell phone problem. I admit to getting distracted by my phone while among a group of friends in real life, but it was because I had just gotten my smartphone that day and wanted to play with it, because it was a new toy. It's my kidishness coming out. Once that was out of my system, I have no need to check my phone constantly or what-have-you. Hell, I don't even like talking on the phone. I try to avoid it if I can. I've never been one of those girls who spends hours on the phone, and I've never been able to understand people who do. But I've definitely seen outrageous phone use become more and more prevalent. Apparently the 15-year-old daughter of my cousin has an iPhone where she racked up 1000 texts in a month, or something insane. I cannot even fathom that!

[KellyHabersham]

Everytime that someone is on the phone in the bathroom, I keep flushing the toliet in my stall to try and prove that, hey, you're in the bathroom. There's no need for a phone to be stuck on your ear when you're in the bathroom, unless there's an emergency going on.

Have to admit, I've done that myself a few times.........especially if the person on the phone is in a stall next to me.

[Cats]

I haven't generally run into this issue, but seeing how prevalent it apparently is, the evil part of me wants, the next time I may encounter this, to go into a stall and start making really loud and awkward sex noises. Don't think I have the guts to actually do it though. Maybe it's a bit too much, but hey, I do believe that sometimes, it's okay to be a bit of an ass to prove a valid point.

[McDreidel09]

I'm really tempted to be kind of immature about this and get a fart machine. Go into the bathroom (if I have to go), turn it up really loud (as loud as it can go), and press the button if I hear people on the phone.

I wonder what would happen.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

I'm really tempted to be kind of immature about this and get a fart machine. Go into the bathroom (if I have to go), turn it up really loud (as loud as it can go), and press the button if I hear people on the phone.

I wonder what would happen.

You are a sick and twisted person.

I admire that.

[McDreidel09]

You are a sick and twisted person.

I admire that.

Well, if they don't want the other person to hear those noises, then they shouldn't bring them in. At least I won't be making those noises. It will be the machine.

I've always been sick and twisted. My new friends just brought it out more.