Pet Peeve

[dhermann1]

Over the stall

Maybe I shouldn't admit this (TOO MUCH INFORMATION WARNING!) but that's where I do most of my sports talk. "So how did the Yankees do last night?"
Maybe it's a guy thing.

 

[MrNewportCustom]

Hmpf! Try cutting someone's hair while they're yapping on their phone!! So annoying! Not only is it in the way, but I run my business by apt., it's so rude.
Nikki

Nikki, my barber has a sign in his shop telling patrons that phones are not allowed in the chair, and he enforces it. Is there anything you can do in that direction?

I'm pretty much anti-cellphone. Never had one, never will. I've turned down people offering to buy me one by telling them, "No one calls me at home, why should I pay for a second phone line that won't be used?" I pay $7.95 a month for a phone-company-based answering service, and I get, on the outside, three or four messages a month. Almost not worth it, at that. (I'm sure I'd have more "friends" if I wasn't on the national Do-Not-Call list.)


Lee
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"An electron was a particle of negative electricity (one which knows when to say 'No')" - Robert Benchley

 

[Diamondback]

In response to cellphone on the john, my question is this: "How much have you hacked me off today?" If not at all, I'll try to avoid the phone in the can. If you've cheesed me off, think of the "Constipation Concerto" as giving you a piece of my mind...

 

[Lady Day]

....I'm not much of a phone person anyway...and frankly dislike phone conversations where other people can hear what I'm saying.

YES!!!!


LD

 

[Diamondback]

And so do I; of course, it's doesn't help that I'm compulsively secretive, maybe even paranoid, by nature...lol

 

[Twitch]

"...using the toilet stall at work for one's own personal phone booth is . . . . well, a little tacky?" lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

 

[Lincsong]

Some hotels have phones installed next to the toilets.[huh]

 

[Viola]

I admit I go into a ladies room with friends sometimes to fix hair and whatnot...but if I didn't know you BEFORE I got there, I don't really want to talk to you! Seriously.

Maybe at the mirror. That's it. Otherwise, leave me alone. And...did you just ask me out? Does that ever work?

That was weird beyond the telling of it.

-Viola

 

[Tomasso]

I have a phone in my bathroom at home and I'll often converse with others (using the speakerphone) as I shave or take a bath but I wouldn't feel comfortable chatting while on the potty.

 

[Dr Doran]

I work as a "telephone communicator" (don't know the proper term in english) and I could tell you some fun stories around that, but I think I'll leave you with your imagination. Though, it amazes me how people can say that they have time to talk even though they're obviously sitting on the toilet when I call.

SITTING? That's disgusting. That's really disgusting.

My personal pet peeve is people who over-aspirate the letter K. Who pronounce it like a KHHH. One hears this often in academia. Is it an attempt to sound intelligent? It fails. An attempt to sound sensitive? Maybe oversensitive. It's just awful and it makes my skin crawl and I have to leave the room when I hear it.

 

[Dr Doran]

Actually, what's even worse than cellphones in the bathroom is people carrying on conversations from stall to stall in bathrooms. Hearing one end of the conversation is bad enough, but hearing both sides, being shouted back and forth along the row, is too annoying for words. Whatever happened to quiet meditation?

Terrible. I cannot stand people I know or people I don't know chatting me up in a bathroom. And I certainly do not want to shake hands. If anyone wants to socialize in a restroom I say quietly, "Let's go outside and talk out there." I want to be anonymous in a restroom.

 

[Fletch]

KAAAAAAAY!!!!!

Fixed it for you, sir.

<blinks> <looks around> Nope...I'm still here in greater NY. 4 out of 10 women here look like that, and about 3 in 10 will act like it if they find themselves in any position to.

 

[MrNewportCustom]

<blinks> <looks around> Nope...I'm still here in greater NY. 4 out of 10 women here look like that, and about 3 in 10 will act like it if they find themselves in any position to.

4 out of 10 look like Tommy Lee Jones?


Lee
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I'll stay in sunny, Southern California, thank you.