I rarely talk on my cell (I use it primarily for web browsing and email). I’ve never had it ring when I was in the bathroom, but it would depend on who was calling and the circumstances.
Fantastic. Cheers for that image. It will be magical when I see her tomorrow morning.
I answered inconsiderate though I could see gross - though I am a bathroom reader, and so am not very grossed out by taking stuff in. But it is inconsiderate to the caller and to anyone else there, and a pain since if you are done it is hard to flush and clean while talking.
Most people I will send to voice mail - if it is my wife I tell her I’ll call her back and then hang up. Not a problem now, since she mostly texts, but at one point she could tell from 18 miles away when I went to the bathroom - and always called just then.
Gross. Not so much for the others in the bathroom, and I’m not grossed out by having a phone in the bathroom, but who the heck wants to be on the other end of that phone call. If I’m in the next stall, and I don’t really care if your boyfriend can hear me peeing, but he might.
I chose “Maybe if it rang and it was really important,” but it would have to be an emergency situation of some sort. Everyone else can wait two minutes.
Is there a difference when either/both parties are peeing or taking a dump? My brother thinks nothing of calling me when he’s in the bathroom and I can always tell when he’s releasing a “dirt snake”, he’ll slow down his speech, think really hard and grunt as though he’s in labor. A couple of times, he laughed and said he actually felt like he was delivering an eight pound load. Nice, Tom, real classy.
Heard on a conference call, after hearing the toilet seat and/or lid get moved, and the stream start: Will whoever it is that’s taking a piss put their phone on mute, please?
When I was a tech at BellSouth I would occasionally go into a customers home and find that they had installed a telephone jack (and phone) in the bathroom. It always got me thinking, how important do you think you are that you need a phone next to the shitter?
Now, with that said I have been known to take my iPhone in the crapper and read the SD to pass a bit of time. Ewwww maybe, but I get bored easily. As far as talking on a cell phone in a public restroom, I would never consider it. I swear sometimes people and their cell phones make me want to … well can’t say that here.
I’ve had someone (a woman!) tell me she was on the toilet while talking to me on the phone. I thought it was funny and not gross at first but then I realized that it meant I didn’t have a shot with her.
I work at home and have to be available at all times, so yeah, I take my phone to the bathroom with me. I just don’t let the people I’m talking to know I’m on the can.
In one word: Tacky.
Walked into a men’s room and was delighted to see a douchbag in a suit strutting around the tiny room on his phone, loudly joking like a Good Ol’ Boy and doing some sort of a business deal.
I said “delighted”, because I finally got to do what I’ve always wanted to do: go in the stall, make loud farting and groaning sounds (hey, I had a huge loaf to push out-- fictional, luckily: I still had my pants on). And then flush. It was so loud in the confined rest room space… that I flushed again.
99% of the time it’s my wife calling, in which case I send the call to voicemail and send her a text to say I’m “indisposed” and will call her back in a minute.
If it’s a potentially urgent call (say, from my daughter’s daycare) I answer but immediately start cleaning up and trying to get out of the bathroom ASAP. If I have to go back and finish after the call, I will.
And if it’s an unidentified number it’s probably unimportant and can go to voicemail.
I’ve gotten along fine for decades without people being able to reach me while I’m in the crapper. Even an emergency can wait a couple of minutes. So even in those rare instances that I’ve carried my cell phone with me into the john, I’m not going to answer it there if it rings.
And when I’m in a public restroom, I prefer to acknowledge the presence of others only to the minimum level required by politeness, i.e. I’ll say hi if I run into someone I know when I’m over by the sinks, but no conversation when I’m at the urinal or in a stall.
Where this is going is that I want to preserve the illusion, to the maximum extent possible, that I’m alone in there. Someone carrying on an extended conversation on the phone in the restroom makes that extremely difficult, and that’s what annoys the hell out of me when they do that. If others carry on brief conversations by the sinks, at least those conversations are at least at the other end of the restroom, and quickly move out of the restroom or come to an end altogether. The same can’t be said for the cell-phone-on-the-john types: they’re right next to you, and can go on quite awhile.
So I go out of my way to make my activities on the loud side. Not that I expect it to do any good - if they aren’t bothered by their own pissing and shitting noises being audible on their phone conversation, they’re probably not going to be bothered by mine.
In public? Absolutely not, it’s rude. At home? Yes, I’ve been known to say “Hey hang on, I have to pee” or I’ll just put the phone on mute while I do it. Granted, I only do this with family and my closest friends, but really, I’m just going pee, it’s not a big deal.
This house had a jack and a blue princess phone in the hall bathroom, color coordinated to the blue tub and blue toilet. The phone was removed the day we took possession, and the jack went away when we remodeled the blue fixtures away.
The couple we bought the house from were odd anyway, so the phone in the bathroom fit right in.
Pfft I’m not a delicate flower. I’ll take the phone with me at work if I’m on the phone with my husband, or maybe my mom. But otherwise no. At home I do it all the time. It’s my party and I’ll pee if I want to! 