Phone Calls in the Bathroom and Aggressive Flushing

The other day I was in a position where I needed to do a #2 in public. I happened to be in a nice hotel at the time, so I settled into a clean stall to go about my business. Moments later, an individual occupied the stall next to me, sat down, dialed the phone, and proceeded to have a conversation.

In case you were wondering, this is not good etiquette. Now I understand that if somebody calls you, the temptation to answer can be almost unbearable. Still, you should resist this temptation. But to call somebody up from a public bathroom stall is a severe breach of etiquette, and frankly a little silly.

Now I couldn’t very well say something, as that would have been a breach of bathroom etiquette in and of itself, so I did the only thing I could think of.

I flushed. Loudly. And repeatedly.

I got lucky on the loudly part, since naturally the volume was beyond my control. I have no idea if I managed to alert the individual on the other end of the call to what was going on, but I do know the fellow in the stall next door started to have a lot of trouble hearing what was going on.