Talking on the Phone in the Bathroom

[Ipecac Drano]

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.

Why do you need to get such a machine? Weren't you born with one?

[telecom_goddess]

People at my work yap on their phones in the bathroom too...usually sales people. But what I hate....is when they use the handicapped button to open the door, when they are not handicapped in any way...just cause they are too lazy to open the door by hand. And I hate it cause the handicapped button keeps the door open for like a whole minute so any noises that may be made in there are heard loud and clear in the hallway....where people are walking by all the time. Not to mention the front desk nearby.

[Greenday]

You could just ask your neighbor who is on the phone if they can spare some extra toilet paper really loudly so the person on the other end of the phone call can hear.

[RavenStarr]

It would be funny if they dropped thier phone in the toilet

[telecom_goddess]

It would be funny if they dropped thier phone in the toilet

My daughter has done that one....

[Andara Bledin]

My daughter has done that one....

My old boss did that, too... while talking on it... >_<

^-.-^

[blas87]

My bf cleans office buildings, and every night before work I call him....

Every once in a while, I catch him while he's cleaning a bathroom, and he will stay in there talking to me, echoing like he is in the mountains.

It's more than annoying. I have to hold the phone away from my face several inches.

[Lace Neil Singer]

A mate of mine once dropped his phone in the pub urinal. Not surprisingly, it didn't work after that. XD

I really hate it when I have to serve people at work who are too busy yapping on their phone to pay me any attention. My coping mechanism is to repeat myself, loudly, til I get an answer. I'm always polite and civil tho, so they can't complain. I don't believe that any conversation is so important, that you can't put the fucking mobile down for five minutes while you pay for your petrol.

[Skunkle]

I've heard many people answer the phone while both of us were in stalls in a public restroom. Once, I even held an embarassing but mercifully brief conversation of sorts: He said "Hello? <long pause> Hello?" I said 'hello' back questioningly. "Can you hear me?" 'Uhhh...yes...?' Then he said something else and, to my embarassment, it hit me that he'd phoned someone! Okay, MY embarassing but (I think) funny secret: I do what others have mentioned. I make loud, wet fart sounds, or flush the toilet. If I'm outside the stall (and the bathroom is otherwise empty) I've been gilty of saying, loudly, "He's on the pot, call him back!" before beating a hasty retreat. Why? Because, were I on the other end and I found out the guy I'm talking to is taking a dump, I'd feel really weirded out. <Butt-Head voice> UUUhhhUuuuUHHH!!! (Any Beavis & Butt-Head fans will know what I mean here, Butt-Head's noise-o-horror) I figure I'm doin' em a favor. And yes, I have a feeling many of these, though probably not all, answer the phone while on the toilet due to a *need* to be connected. I am also horribly embarassed when I'm using a stall in a public restroom and my phone begins ringing; I usually pull it out as fast as I can, pick up and hang up to end the incoming call and then turn off the ring, then call the person back when I'm out.

I have a local friend who is ALWAYS getting calls and texts. Driving? On the phone. It rings (call) or beeps (text) at least every three minutes. At a mutual friend's house playing games? Said friend chastizes him when he texts while rules are being read. Out anywhere he and I go? Constantly stepping aside to answer the phone. The main issue being a friend of his who's kind of emotionally clingy and also a bit nuts, and will call him constantly, trying any excuse he can to get my friend to come over (usually it's "I'm leaving for a trip to California and I need a ride to the airport!" which trip is usually mysteriously cancelled if my friend actually arrives - though I once answered the phone for him while he was driving and got "I need help cleaning for a party tomorrow", "A friend is drunk and locked himself in my bathroom and I need help getting him to leave", something about the lift to the airport and at least three more, all different, all in a span of a half hour!)

[guywithashovel]

This is kind of unrelated, but yesterday at work, a girl came into the library talking loudly on her cell phone. She also brought some dinner from Chipotle with her. She sat down at one of the library tables and proceeded to eat her burrito bowl while talking on her cell phone. After she finished, she threw her trash away in the library's trash can and proceeded to mess around on the computer while still having the same loud cell phone conversation.

Get this: We have a student center that's maybe about fifty or seventy-five feet away. It has tables, vending machines, a microwave, and a sink. It's made for the students to eat and talk in. However, this girl found it necessary to do all this in the library. The library smelled like Mexican food for at least an hour afterwards.

[Ginger Tea]

I've had Captain Dickhead call me whilst he took a shower with clingfilm or something wrapped around his head to keep his headset dry, thing is this wasn't at home, this was at a puplic swimming pool. I have no idea the looks he must have had.

I only ever answer the phone if its him calling if im on the loo, mainly due to the fact he will call and call and call again till I answer
"what are you up to?"
"having a crap"
"oh what are you doing after?"
"wiping my arse"

I once needed a wee whilst he was calling me, iir I was going to the loo just as he called, so I put it on speaker phone just so he could hear me go, then I answered.

When nature calls I don't let it go to answer phone, for everyone else leave a mesage after the beep.
you can quote me on that one

[Greenday]

My mom will call people while on the toilet. Every time I hear her in the bathroom and she's talking, it sounds like she's talking to herself until I realize she's on the phone. And she just says "when you have to go, you have to go". That's great, but when you have to go, you don't have to be on the phone.

[Boozy]

If I'm at home and someone calls, I tend to multitask and do some cleaning while I'm on the phone.

Last time I was scrubbing the shower, my sister said "Why is there an echo? Are you in the bathroom?"

I explained what I was doing, and she said, "Whatever. I wouldn't have cared if you were on the toilet anyway."

Sisters are great that way. Business calls are a different matter.

[Eisa]

^Yeah, if I'm at home, I've answered the phone when it's my bf or a relative. Or if I'm on the phone for a while with my bf and I need to pee, sometimes I'll just take the phone with me [although I usually put it on mute ].

Public restroom on the other hand? Nuh-uh.