Restrooms and Cell Phones

I have seen a lot of things in my short life, but today I heard something that made me wonder where people draw the line these days. I went to the restroom this afternoon at work and when I walked in I heard someone talking. I figured it was two women in the restroom conversing about their boss. Needless to say it wasn't, it was someone sitting on the toilet talking on her cell phone. There is a line that I will not cross and that includes talking to someone on the phone and going to the bathroom. I know that a urine stream can be heard over the phone, and golly if you can hear that, imagine what the flushing sounds like. So as I sat there thinking of things to do to embarass this person, all I could think to do was flush over and over and over. When I started to pee, I thought she would finish her business and hang up the phone - no she kept on talking. When I flushed, I thought she would stop talking - I don't think so. Even after I washed my hands and left, she was still talking.

I guess what really bothers me is that people have no respect for each other anymore. I really don't appreciate some stranger hear me pee in the john. If I wanted that, I would join a group that's into "golden showers" - hee hee hee. It's like the rude people in line that can't hang up the phone to order their meal at McDonalds. Is that damn phone so important that common courtesy has flown the coop? I try to be courteous to service people, as they get a lot of shit to begin with, but when someone with a phone treats them as they don't exist, that really makes me mad.

As I sit here, I wonder what the person on the other end of that phone conversation thought when the toilet flushed. Just thinking about it makes me laugh. What's even funnier was that it was a business call - can you imagine :)

Here's to the loud lady - SHUT UP!!!!!

At the beginning of the year, my company sublet some space to one of the owners "friends". This company is a mortgage broker so a lot of personal/private information is changing hands. In someones infinate wisdom, they put the mortgage company owner in an office (which is fine) and put the other 4 employees in our old marketing department cubes. The only female that works for this company is LOUD. Last week she was discussing bankruptcy, credit scores and all sorts of other things that no one here should be hearing. Anyway, she sits half an office away from me and I can hear her side of entire conversations. It's driving me nuts and I want to say something. People are working from home because it's quieter and they can get more work done without her obnoxious voice.

Another thing these people do that irratates me - they drink the bottled water out of the fridge, our employees aren't allowed to do that, it's meant for our customers. They take the water cooler water to make coffee in their area. They all leave dishes in the sink instead of putting them in the dishwasher, it's not even a step away.

I am ready to freak on them. I come to work to get stuff done, then they start talking or put the phone on speaker and it's loud. Argggg.

OK, I am going to take my laptop and go to an empty office.