Pet Peeve

[dhermann1]

Am I just odd, or does anyone else share my feeling that using the toilet stall at work for one's own personal phone booth is . . . . well, a little tacky?
I see it more often than I'd like to say. I mean, I would not want to be the person at the other end, somehow.
Anyone else have strong feelings on the subject?

 

[Gaige]

I wholeheartedly agree.

I've been on calls with someone wherein I can hear the telltale echoing... so I'll ask, "So, hey, are you in the bathroom?!" as soon as they say "yes..." I promptly tell them to call me back when they're somewhere a bit more appropriate.

Not to mention it bugs me to be in a public restroom and someone's blathering away in a stall.

Rather bizarre.

 

[dhermann1]

I mean, E Coli can't be transmitted electronically, but you feel that it somehow is.

 

[MrPumpernickel]

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.

 

[Fletch]

I mean, E Coli can't be transmitted electronically, but you feel that it somehow is.

Ooooo, squick. Pass the brain cleaner, please.

My peeve is hissy commuters who hand you an earful when you ask for a little room on the crowded AM trains. Hey, I know you work on the train. I work on the train. But today I'm traveling. Is it asking too much to let a guy with a suitcase sit in your personal filing cabinet seat? Let alone not b!#¢h about it?

(Suspect: white female, age approx. 45-55, over-bangled, 4" pencil heels, pathologically thin.)

 

[Diamondback]

Ooooo, squick. Pass the brain cleaner, please.

KAAAAAAAY!!!!!

(Perp: white female, age approx. 45-55, over-bangled, 4" pencil heels, pathologically thin.)

Fixed it for you, sir.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

Yes indeed!

I've pretty much had it with cell phones generally, to tell the truth! In cars, in stores, in theatres, on the street. I hate 'em! :rage:

I am looking forward to the day when cell frequency jammers are legal in this country. I plan to buy several and plant them around! I'll carry mine everywhere - just like a cell phone!

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[fourstarbanner]

If I'm on the phone with someone and I hear them flush, its just disgusting!

 

[PrettySquareGal]

I mean, E Coli can't be transmitted electronically, but you feel that it somehow is.

Well...it is "E" coli...

 

[jamespowers]

I've pretty much had it with cell phones generally, to tell the truth! In cars, in stores, in theatres, on the street. I hate 'em! :rage:

I am looking forward to the day when cell frequency jammers are legal in this country. I plan to buy several and plant them around! I'll carry mine everywhere - just like a cell phone!

-dixon cannon

They have such a thing?! Hmmmmmm......

 

[PrettySquareGal]

I've pretty much had it with cell phones generally, to tell the truth! In cars, in stores, in theatres, on the street. I hate 'em! :rage:

I am looking forward to the day when cell frequency jammers are legal in this country. I plan to buy several and plant them around! I'll carry mine everywhere - just like a cell phone!

-dixon cannon

Yup.

 

[PrettySquareGal]

I wholeheartedly agree.

I've been on calls with someone wherein I can hear the telltale echoing... so I'll ask, "So, hey, are you in the bathroom?!" as soon as they say "yes..." I promptly tell them to call me back when they're somewhere a bit more appropriate.

Not to mention it bugs me to be in a public restroom and someone's blathering away in a stall.

Rather bizarre.

It's horrific.

It's really bad if they're reading the paper in there, too. Save that for home, I say.

 

[akaBruno]

If I'm on the phone with someone and I hear them flush, its just disgusting!

I always hang up before flushing.

So's I'm peeing at a interstate reststop one day... I think someone in a stall is asking me how I'm doing? NOT!

Talkin on the silly phone.

Bruno

 

[PrettySquareGal]

I always hang up before flushing.
Bruno

But Bruno, what's to stop the other guy from flushing before you hang up? See? It's dreadful!

 

[dhermann1]

Our own town

Forget having our own town, we need our own universe! It is a pleasure to be in the company of like minded people.

 

[DavidVillaJr]

I never use the facility while using the phone, however................

I do have two small children who do not stop talking.

EVER.

Sometimes I have to lock myself in the "smallest room in the house" in order to get enough quiet to use the phone.

But, that's only at home.


Just because it's echoing (is that spelled correctly? that is one weird looking word) doesn't mean I'm using......


dv

 

[LizzieMaine]

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?

 

[akaBruno]

But Bruno, what's to stop the other guy from flushing before you hang up? See? It's dreadful!

What you don't know... won't hurt ya honey.

Besides, I didn't call you... you called me.

 

[Samsa]

That's pretty gross... I can't say that I've ever had the experience of listening to people on the phone IN the bathroom. I'm not much of a phone person anyway, so luckily have not had to deal with calling someone and being cognizant of them being in the bathroom. Cell phone usage in public places (be it a bathroom, restaurant, etc.) still boggles my mind. I try to avoid using my cell phone in any of these places, and frankly dislike phone conversations where other people can hear what I'm saying. I also dislike the unintentional eavesdropping that being around people talking on a cell phone necessitates.

 

[ohairas]

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