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How many out there have conducted business or held personal conversations on the telephone while sitting on the toilet?

Asked by rojo (24179points) May 26th, 2018

As asked. I am wondering how many of us do not think twice (or even think) about doing such and how many times have you been talking to someone about something important only to hear the commode flush at some point during the conversation?

And, does it bother you to think that it may be happening while you are one the phone?

Do you have any applicable anecdotes?

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Patty_Melt's avatar

I had (yes, past tense) friend who, seemingly, would flush at some point during every conversation I had with her.
It creeped me out, and I said so, but it continued, until other behaviors added up to devalue the friendship, and I finally avoided here all together.
My phone is not allowed in the bathroom.
I grew up with phones attached to a cord that didn’t go there, so I know I can manage without one while I do my business.

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JLeslie's avatar

Sure. My husband and I even had phone jacks installed in our toilet room in two homes, before the day of the cell phone. He was the one who wanted it. I think it actually had more to do with his feeling that you have to answer a ringing phone more than anything. I don’t have that feeling.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

I remember going to a hotel in Canada almost 50 years ago; the bathroom and the sitting room both had telephones along with a telephone next to the bed.
Didn’t use it though.

Demosthenes's avatar

Not talking on the phone, no. I will text and post on websites* while on the toilet, though. Taking my phone out then is just a habit now.

*not this one of course ;)

rojo's avatar

Actually, this question was asked because of a recent experience in a public restroom in an airport in Houston. I had the “pleasure” of having to listen for several minutes to someone conducting business by phone in the stall next to me while, I assume, conducting his own more personal business. I thought it both inappropriate and rude to others, such as myself, the person in the stall on the other side of him and to the people on the other end of the phone.
I wondered how important you must be or imagine you must be that you cannot even spare a few minutes to be off your phone to wipe your butt.

JLeslie's avatar

@rojo Ah, a public restroom is different. I have talked to my husband or sister probably while in a public restroom, maybe finishing a conversation, but not anything else I can think of, not an entire conversation of any sort.

Patty_Melt's avatar

When cell phones were still pretty new, I had one slip from my back pocket into the toilet.
Well, I had shit to say, you see.
Just such a bad place for phones.
I too have been in a stall next to phone conversations.
I try to pick just the right moment to flush.

Mariah's avatar

Hahaha yes this was incredibly awkward. I had applied to a job at a government research lab, and they needed to do a background check. I got a call back following up about the background check, I don’t remember the specifics of the call, but I was on the toilet in my college apartment when the phone rang. For the life of me I can’t remember why I picked up – maybe my schedule for the day was too busy to play phone tag – but I did and so I was trapped in there. Couldn’t flush or they’d hear it, couldn’t leave the bathroom without flushing lest my roommate go in there. Just finished up the conversation from in the bathroom. I come out and my roommate has caught onto the situation and is laughing at me.

nightwolf5's avatar

While I have talked on the phone in the bathroom, not while actually going to the bathroom, just in the room itself.

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