I'm thinking of getting one of these signs for when I'm at the office and need to spend time in the women's restroom.Do people really carry on conversations in restrooms while doing their business? Maybe they do while at the sink washing their hands; I can live with that. But while in the stall?
I'm not very sociable at the office anyway, but I particularly dislike talking in the restroom, especially when I'm in my stall doing my business. To me it's like being watched.
Bully VP's secretary (let's call her "Bitch" since that's what everyone else calls her) is a member of Falwell's church and rarely makes eye-contact when we cross paths. I guess she's afraid of getting lesbian cooties. Knowing her aversion to all things gay, I purposely stand by her at campus gatherings just to make her squirm (she does) and walk away (she will). It's no surprise that Bitch never talks to me.
Until today.
Yep, Bitch came into our two-stall restroom while I was in the middle of a productive morning (if you know what I mean), entered the other stall, and started asking me all about Amanda. Her feigned compassion was enough to make me want to punch her lights out, which I couldn't do because... well... I was busy.
Am I alone in thinking the time to carry on a conversation is NOT when a person is in the bathroom stall?
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And damn if I didn't just now think of this... I should have started tapping my foot the minute Bitch recognized my shoes. That would have taught her not to talk to me in the restroom.
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I can't stand it. I also hate it when people answer their cell phone in the bathroom.
It echoes, people!! I can tell you're in the dunny! Ack!
or.. along with tappin your foot.. start singing.. "Don't you want me baby" im sure that would hasten her exit..
This is one of my pet hates. I can't stand it! I don't want to be talking to these people (esp. work) with my panties down around my ankles. Ugghhhh.
I'm with you on this. And with Maggie on the cell phone thing. I've seen women walk into the bathroom on the cell phone, go into a stall, do there business and come out of the bathroom still on the phone.
The bathroom is just not the place for conversation. Sheesh, what can't wait 5 min?!
I don't know what's worse, that it happens or that when it happens to me I feel compelled to answer!
Thankfully, I work on a floor with a 5 stall bathroom and only 1 other woman. We are rarely in there at the same time. We speak only when entering or leaving. Never during. Oh no. Never.
I have enough performance anxiety as it is...don't add a conversation into the mix.
ROFLMAO at the foot tapping. I am in total agreement on the no talk rule. And worse yet... the receptionist at my work has her phone glued to her side and she does answer it when in the loo. And then I feel compelled to NOT flush while she is talking to a business contact. I share a two stall room with 10 other women and we are always running into each other -- especially when the coffee kicks in.
I have a shy bladder anyhow, and it's hard enough to tinkle with an audience, but doing BUSINESS is dang near impossible and there are times I would really love to have a sign like that to hang on the door. Let me do my business in private. PUHLEEZE!
nope, no stall talking.
and i thought it was just me
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