# Why can't I get privacy in the bathroom?? (a little TMI)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-get-privacy-in-the-bathroom-a-little-tmi/207630>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 15, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-get-privacy-in-the-bathroom-a-little-tmi/207630 "2003-10-15T19:20:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-get-privacy-in-the-bathroom-a-little-tmi/207630/41 "2003-10-17T17:46:26Z")

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I’m on the Atkins’ diet and I gotta tell ya…

…I have to poop less and I rarely fart anymore.

Of course, now that I’ve got a three-year-old at home and WANT to use the “pull my finger” joke, I CAN’T!

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**Author:** ![5que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/3bc359/32.png) [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-get-privacy-in-the-bathroom-a-little-tmi/207630/42 "2003-10-17T18:07:57Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Magayuk \*  
> \*\*My least favorite thing is when you are trying to do your business, and there are two people standing by the sink carrying on a conversation. \*\*

Our IT Director conducts meetings in the bathroom. You’ll be standing at the urinal doing your thing, and he’ll come up to the next one and start talking to you. He wants information on your project that the short version takes 5 minutes. He will continue talking to you through zipping up and washing your hands. Then he walks to the exit door, stops, and CONTINUES talking to you. People literally hold it if they see him go into the crapper first.

Then of course most of us carry Blackberry pagers. So you hear the click-click-click of people typing on the little keyboards while they’re sitting in the stall. Ugh!

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**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-get-privacy-in-the-bathroom-a-little-tmi/207630/43 "2003-10-17T19:16:08Z")

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> one of the guys guy sat on the bowl, farted thunderously, and said “Uhhhhyeahhhh”. It’ll be a great day when women can share that freedom.

Can I get an Amen?

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