Are you a toilet talker or toilet texter?
OK, so a cousin who shall remain nameless lost her cell phone at our place last week – um, in our toilet. And get this, she “accidentally” flushed it down rather than fishing it out. Now I’d like YOU to come clean – are you a toilet talker?
Some people are so addicted to their BlackBerrys (BlackBerries?) and iPhones they can’t even go to the bathroom without reading email, sending a text message or making a call.
And I don’t need to hear the *flush* sound to know when you’re sitting on the can because I can hear the echo inside the bathroom. Duh. And if you don’t flush because you don’t want to gross out the person you’re talking to, what if you forget to flush later – and it’s no. 2?
If you’re still reading this then I haven’t offended you just yet (give me time), or you’re guilty of this kind of multitasking.
In fact, there was a recent study that found women are more likely to use their cell phones while on the toilet than men – but not by much. A U.S.-based iGR survey from April ’09 found women were 8 percent more likely to make phone calls while on the toilet than men and 5 percent more likely to send a text.
The same study found cell phone users between 18 and 24 years of age were the most likely to use their mobile phones in the bathroom or on the toilet than other age groups in the study.
Be honest, now. Do you text or talk while doing the deed? Remind me not to borrow your phone.
Erm..you expect us to come clean, when you haven’t done so yourself, Marc?
I’ll admit, I’ve been known on occasion to go pee while I’m on the phone, but certainly nothing more than that, and I don’t make calls after I’m on the toilet. It’s only when I really, really need to go and the phone call doesn’t sound like it’s going to end any time soon.
Haha, I was on a work-related conference call just yesterday and had to go awfully bad. I’ve mastered the skill of peeing silently. Oh, but I timed it so I went when I knew I didn’t have to speak for a while (to avoid that hollow echo bathroom talk you speak of, Marc). How’s that for professionalism? :-D
Well now that you mention it every once in a while I do get caught in mid-discourse orevery once in a while I forget where I am and what I[‘m doing, or (even worse) it’s not #2, it’s #6 on the open-ended Richter scale and oh never mind
It’s the shattered porcelain that really gets me.
ya i was drunk once and taking a leak and dropped my chocolate phone in just as i flushed it was gone before I could blink never again
What the hell happened to basic good manners?? YES, I’m being a grandmother here and make no apologies for that! Shame.
well- I’ve been at the mall and gone to the bathroom and there was woman in the stalls talkin on the phone- ICK- haha- I thought to myself- who does that? I’d be so uncomfortable if I knew someone was sitting on the can pinching a mean one!I guess it’s ok if I didn’t know- and yes, I have texted in the girl’s room on occassion, so don’t try borrow my cell! lol.
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