Reading AHA’s thread brought up another question.
Have you ever peed (or poohed) in the middle of talking to someone on the phone? As conversations with my chick friends tend to be rather long, I’m definitely guilty of this sometimes.
So do you?
Is it completely disgusting?
Do you try to cover up the sound of the tinkle/flush?
Does the person you are talking to notice, or does everyone pretend not to?
Would you be offended if someone did this while talking to you?
Well, since I just posted to aha’s thread, might as well get the whole Gazoo toliet experience out in the open.
Yep, I talk to people on the phone while on the throne all the time. Hell, I’ve been known to initiate calls while taking a dump. A couple of times when talking to really close friends I’ve even told them, “Hey, you know what I’m doing right now? I’m taking a dump.”
I’ve done this a few times while on the phone with my best friend. She on the other hand does it during at least 50% of our conversAtions. Whether that means it’s the only time she has for me, or she just craps a lot, I don’t know.
When I saw the thread title, I says to myself, “I blame this on aha.” Sure enough…
But no, I can’t do it. I’m not a very quiet…er…um…well, you get the picture. Haven’t been quiet in years.
But I can eat on the pooper. No problem with that. Read, write, eat, sleep (see: Post Drinking Binge, Going To Work Hungover), whatever. Just not talk. Too embarrassing.
Sometimes I’m put on hold after calling my mom’s work, and they leave me on hold for awhile. Well, needless to say a certain urge comes over me, and I find myself in the bathroom, mid-tinkle when my mom picks up the phone…
Mom- Hello, status, this is Kim.
Me- Hey mom…
Mom- Jeff? Whats that noise?
Me- What noise?
Mom- Are you peeing?
Me- Yes. :::click:::
I end up calling back and explaning later. Usually, I aim for the inside wall of the toilet, so it doesn’t hit the water and make so much noise.
I will only pee while speaking on the phone to certain close friends. Never family members. If it’s an emergency, I will excuse myself.
This is the number one reason why video phones should never become a reality for the home.
I do it occasionally, I don’t believe I’ve ever told the other party, but I usually wait until after I’ve hung up to flush.
Ya gotta love them cordless phones.
I hate talking on the ‘phone so I’ll do a variety of other things while mummy is telling me about her quilting guild.
Pee. Wash dishes. Water the garden. Take a bath (mummy says I’m going to drop the ‘phone and electrocute myself, one more story about my step-cousins and I just might). I draw the line at using the power tools because then she’d know I wasn’t really listening.
I myself am guilty of this crime as well, but an old boss of mine took the cake. I worked in a very small office, only 3 of us there, and my boss was very prone to… well… umm… pooping, and when I say pooping, I mean it in the most vile, loud, rumbling, explosive gas kind of way. You could be two rooms over and hear him shitting clear as day. He might as well have been crapping on my desk, it was virtually the same thing. Anyway… since the urge would come over him at any give time… he got himself a little headset and a phone cord that was probably 50 feet long. He would drag the cord across the office, mid-conversation, and proceed to shit his brains out while on a company call. It was all my coworker and I could do to keep from laughing when he came back into the room.
I only did this at a young age. Now, I either just hold it or tell the person (they have to be particularly close), “Hey, can I call you back? I have to use the facilities.” or if it’s some person I don’t know well, I just tell them that I have things to do.
So do you?
Absolutely. Numbers one through two. Only when I’m talking to people that know me though.
Is it completely disgusting?
I see nothing wrong with it. My GF hates it though. However, she does it herself when she’s on the phone with me, so she has no right to judge me 
Do you try to cover up the sound of the tinkle/flush?
I usually flush after I finish the call. Except when I’m talking to my GF: then I flush mid-call, just to piss her off.
Does the person you are talking to notice, or does everyone pretend not to?
So far, only my GF notices. I think. No idea if they’re pretending, but if so, they’re all damn good at it.
Would you be offended if someone did this while talking to you?
No.
“So do you?”
Twice I’ve talked on the phone while sitting on the throne.
I was sitting on the toilet in a hotel in D.C., when the phone next to the toilet rings. It’s my boss, who’s just checked into his hotel room and wants to discuss the meeting the next day that we’re in town for. So I end up discussing business for ten minutes while sitting doing some business of my own.
One of the first few days I had my cellphone, it rings just as I sit down on the toilet at my girlfriend’s place. It’s my mother! There was an absolute monsoon of a rainstorm, she knew I was going to be on the expressway, and she wanted to make sure I had pulled off to the side of the road. When I told her I was not only not driving but in the bathroom and therefore not in the car at all, she was happy.
“Is it completely disgusting?”
No. If it were, why do so many hotels put telephones in the bathroom right next to the toilet?
“Do you try to cover up the sound of the tinkle/flush?”
I’m not a real noisemaker when I use the washroom, AFAIK. (I know, too much information. )
“Does the person you are talking to notice, or does everyone pretend not to?”
Don’t think anyone’s noticed.
Boss never knew I was on the toilet. Heck, HE could have been phoning from the bathroom in his hotel room, as far as I know.
My mother only knew I was in the washroom because I told her.
“Would you be offended if someone did this while talking to you?”
No. Why should I be offended by where somebody calls from? I realize that phone calls are often shoe-horned into free time like when one is driving or riding a train. And clearly one can’t control where they are when YOU call.
Yep, I do. I usually make sure to stick the reciever near the bowl when I flush, its quite funny, people yell at me “WHAT WAS THAT??” I tell em. Maybe thats why I dont have many friends.
Its great for telemarketers too, usually I will tell them to hold on while I wipe.
As I understand it, there was an attorney who used to work at my present firm who would carry her dictaphone into the ladies room and dictate letters while she “did her business” (or so I’m told–the woman in question left before I started here).
I must say I think that’s rude–it’s one thing to talk to a friend and answer the call of nature (presumably your friend is aware of your proclivites in this regard), but it’s another thing to hijack some poor word processor/transcriber and force him/her to listen to you…well, you know.
Personally, I excuse myself if I need to go when I’m on the phone. As to whether it would bother me if the person I’m talking to used the can (I’m running out of bathroom analogies here), it would depend. “Number one” wouldn’t bother me, but the other…
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I used to work as a transcriber, and while I had to transcribe some very disgusting bodily noises, it wasn’t the worst I’d heard of. The worst belonged to another transcriber who had to record a dog fart for posterity. The dog had been sitting next to the interviewee, and in the middle of the conversation, had innocently let out a loud, ripe one. The poor girl not only had to listen to the tape of the whole incident several times, but also had to type out the post-fart reaction:
Interviewer: (Pauses) “What was that?”
Guy: “Oh, that was the dog. He’s been doing that a lot lately.”
Interviewer: “I didn’t know dogs could do that.” (Laughs)
I don’t know why it wasn’t edited out. It made it to the final printout stage, which means not only did our boss not delete it, but also that the interviewee had opted to leave it in.
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I don’t. Using the washroom is about the only time I have to myself, and I’d like to keep it that way.
My best friend always goes pee while we’re on the phone. It doesn’t particularly bother me, but then again, she doesn’t tell me until after shes done it so I won’t listen for the sound (or so she tells me).
I use the bathroom while I talk to people on the phone. Most of the time I warn them, unless it’s some oddball guy friend that wants me to not talk while I pee. I see no problem in it as long as there aren’t noises drowning out the conversation.