To the ladies out there, you may never have to worry about this one, but for us guys…there is always that one guy who decides that the perfect time to strike up conversation is while you are doing your business.
So there you are…relieving yourself of your daily liquid intake. You are probably thinking about the tasks of the day, where you want to go next or just thankful that you made it to the restroom on time. You hear the door open and another man in search of self release enters the restroom. It might be a crowded restroom day or you are the only two performing this function at this point in time…regardless…it doesn’t matter. Without even skipping a beat, this guy picks out his urinal of choice, gets started doing his thing and then it comes…”Hey man, how’s it going?”
Are you serious? Can’t you see I am busy?! What on God’s green Earth makes you think that I want to have a full blown conversation with a complete stranger while I am holding myself going to the bathroom? I had my blank stare at the wall already going and I might have even progressed to the glaring at the ceiling pose. Both of these body language gestures point to the fact that I do not want to strike up causal urinal conversation. To make matters worse, this public restroom conversation starter want eye contact while you are engaging in this act of total bewilderment. Gross! Why the hell are you not looking forward? Proper men’s public restroom etiquette is to look forward at all times. There is no reason to look side to side at all. Are we really that close after only knowing each other a total of 4 seconds? I don’t know if I ever want to be that close to someone that we feel comfortable enough to talk during excretion.
To all of those public restroom urinal talkers, please be a little bit more patient. I have no problem with small talk during the washing of the hands point in sequence. During that time, we can even have conversation eye contact through the mirror. I am ok with that, but while I am doing my busiess of the day…leave me alone! This is not a time to ask how my day is going, if I am enjoying the weather, etc. It is a time to get a project complete and move on to the rest of my day. Anything more than that…is just plain creepy.
I hate this too…even though I am a girl and don’t have to look them eye to eye, I do not want a strange lady talking to me while I pee…I hate it!
@Melissa
That is hilarious…do you get a friendly knock on the wall first…or do they just start to randomly talk to themselves?
@Melissa yeah that would be weird talking to a girl in the restroom while I’m doing my business
I hate the guy that has to stand right next to you when you’re the only 2 in there and when there are 5 other perfectly good stalls on the other end of the row. Choose the end urinal perv!
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They just start talking…today I had a lady tell me one time how tired she was and a reason why, then another time I had a lady tell me after I came out that she wondered whose little feet those were which means that 1)she looked at my feet and 2)she knows every other girl’s feet and knew mine were out of place….
While we are on the subject can I also add how fricken obnoxious it is when women talk on their cell phone while they are on the toilet in public? Hey lady next to me, you might not mind your husband hearing you poop but I don’t really want him to hear me also. Thank you. Get off the phone.
@Sonya
We were just talking about that last night!! Maybe their other half likes to hear them push or something…I’m not sure…