Poll: Do you condone using the phone while prone on the throne?

Moan. Groan. Leave me alone.

Only under very specific conditions: If I am at home, talking with someone who is family or a close friend the conversation isn’t going to end within the next minute or so and I have to pee, I will go while on the phone. Pooping, no. In a public bathroom, NO NO NO. I’m appalled at people who think the phone is so damn important it can’t wait a few minutes until they’re doing doing their business.

I was in a store bathroom recently and another woman came in and started doing her thing, and a few seconds later, a guy pops his head in the door and says, “Hey, Ma, your phone’s ringing.” :eek: :smack: :rolleyes: I was so stunned I didn’t think to say anything until it was too late, and I can’t remember what she said, but KEE-RIST, dude, let voicemail pick it up!

I don’t recall if it’s been done to me, but [evil daughter] I can tell you that infamousmom does it. [/evil daughter] This is the same woman who freaks out if she sees me snack while on the phone because OMG YOU’RE SMACKING AND SLURPING IN THEIR EAR (I always chew with my mouth closed and keep the chewing away from the phone’s mic and I only do it with good friends whose permission I’ve asked).

As you can tell, I have mocked her soundly for it.

I don’t use the phone in the bathroom, and I’ve never had a phone conversation with someone who was on the throne. Not that I know of, anyway. But in my college days one of the girls on my floor used to carry her phone to the bathroom with her all the time. She’d walk in mid-conversation, do what she had to do, flush and walk out the door, carrying on a conversation the entire time. I always hated when she did that.

My new apartment has a phone jack in the bathroom, right over the toilet. This is advertised as one of the apartment features. So I guess its not uncommon.

I’m posting this from the throne. Anyone have a spare roll of T.P.?

I’m always amused/disturbed when I stay at a hotel that has a phone in the bathroom. I’m never quite sure what they were going for there.

Must make for a hell of a conference call for the ever-connected business traveler…

This is exactly what bothers me. When did time become so precious that you need to save 5 minutes by calling someone from the shitter? As if you wouldn’t be wasting that time on the internet when you got back to your desk anyway!

Yesterday I saw a woman jogging while talking into her cell phone (no, not hands free!). People are nuts.

I used to work at a grocery store. Once upon a time (say about 8 years ago), I arrived at work early, and while changing into my polyester pants and shirt, felt the call of nature. After ascertaining that the room was clear - yes change room and can were one and the same - I proceded to go about my business.

Please note at this point that all the managers at the store carried cordless phones that kept them connected at all times.

As I’m sitting there, the change room door opens, and the grocery manager comes in and enters the next stall. As he’s sitting there grunting out his breakfast, his phone rings. He then proceeds to have a conversation with a vendor about ordering more cases of “Chunk Lite Tuna”.

I was simultaneously amused and disgusted. Talking on the throne while on the phone is damn rude, but the chunky tuna talk with sound effects was over the top.

Beware the grocery store, people!!

I think I’ve done it twice, both times were to my boyfriend and he didn’t mind. Once he called me while I was already… there (this was at home, and I must have been about to get in the tub or something) and once I was at work on my break, and I called him but then had a potty emergency. I know he doesn’t care, since he does it to me all the time, and it doesn’t bother me. We just kind of make fun of each other for it.

Anyone else? No. Wouldn’t do it, wouldn’t like it done to me.

[Elaine voice]
No, I don’t have a square to spare. I can’t spare a square.
[/Elaine voice]

Heyyy… Elaine didn’t say this, she had it said to her. :wink:

Unless she said it later in the episode whilst mocking the original person, which is also possible!

Yeah, it was Jami Gertz with her flinty voice.

Well, I wound up accidentally using such a phone, in just such a situation; was on a business trip for a high-profile project, and someone phoned me with an urgent question. I was already “enthroned” when the phone rang, though. So yeah, they literally caught me with my pants down :eek:. That same hotel had a tv in the bathroom. Put a minibar in there and there’d be no need to leave the room evah!

As far as intentionally doing this: nope. Only once - was on the phone with my beloved spouse, and the bladder said “WAKE UP!!!”. I had a phone with a very long cord, so I walked down the hallway and quietly did what I had to. No flushing. I did mention this to him later and he’d had no clue, but was grossed out.

Are you really “not quite sure what they were going for there”? I don’t believe you.

Because it’s pretty obvious that “what they were going for” is that it’s pretty common for people to want to use the phone in the bathroom, especially if it is the type of expensive hotel that attracts people on business trips.

Apparently, a lot of people don’t have problems with the idea of talking while conducting more personal business.

The echo of a public restroom might be obvious, but your little home or hotel bathroom, with the door open? Not so much.

It’s not that the phone is so damn important, it’s that one activity does not interfere with the other, so why interrupt either one just to do the other?

I’m usually reading while using the toilet anyway. Just sitting there bores me.

If I’m rapidly approaching the point of a full-scale Potty Emergency, yes.

A friend of mine and I are pretty about it, actually…

“…and so then he said… hang on, gotta replace the toilet paper…”
“Yer on the toilet?”
“Yeah…”
“Me too.”

Yes, but I’m nosy.
-PLD

Sometimes, but not often. Of course, if I do, I try to avoid flushing until after I’ve hung up.

Believe it or not, I’m every bit as ignorant as I appear. Up until the time I’d typed my comment, I’d never really stopped to consider why there were phones in the bathroom. The whole point of me starting this thread was because I had not assumed previously that talking on the phone while in the bathroom was a common thing.

I consider myself enlightened.

Okay. But still, I should think the very presence of the phone in the bathroom, rather than anything anyone here might say about, it is what would be more enlightening on this point.

I understand your point, honestly. In retrospect, it makes perfect sense.

But there’s a difference between my previous dismissive thought that the installation of a bathroom phone might apply to an eccentric few whom a pricey hotel can accomodate because it’s simple enough to do (something I’ve probably only seen two or three times in my life), and my newfound realization that such phone conversations are a commonplace activity.

I talk on the phone while in the bathroom…but I try to cover the mouthpiece and I don’t flush until I am off the phone. The next question I would have would be if you do use the phone, and someone asks if you are on the toilet, do you tell them or do you lie?
I lie.
-foxy