Holding my phone with my right hand and my…
I was in the gents facilities at the Radisson this afternoon. Still no internet. BT reckoned all was working well, I disagreed. There’s an engineer coming tomorrow morning.
As I entered the gents and located the urinal I heard some guy chatting loudly. I thought at first he was chatting to a colleague. But no.
The arse was chatting away, doing what seemed like a business call, whilst, as they say here in London, ‘taking a slash’.
What an idiot!
The only free urinal was next to this arse yapping away about third quarter statistics and how he’d be delighted to quote for the next quarter’s business — meanwhile merrily dispensing forth at his urinal. It’s a wonder the audio of this dispending didn’t make it to the listener. Perhaps it did.
I made sure to use the hand dryer for a longer-than-usual amount of time to really try and annoy the person on the other end of the call. How ridiculous to have to continue a conversation (or worse, answer the call) whilst in the middle of, er, discharging!
Is your life that boring that you want the challenge of literally jugling? Or do you want to look busy?
Tell me you don’t do this, right?
something tells me you should just buy one of those portable cellphone jammers.
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Posted by Stefan Constantinescu on March 18th, 2008 at 6:40 am.No, no, no, no, no. Although I was once told of a sub-editor at a paper I was working for seen munching away on a bacon sandwich with his free hand while doing what this chap was doing with the other. Not sure which of them is the worst offender…
Posted by MarkW on March 18th, 2008 at 8:08 am.When I worked in an office building, I was astonished at how many guys would talk on their cellphone in the restroom, while doing far more…….’explosive’ activities. I always made sure to double-flush when I heard someone in there talking.
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Posted by Ricky on March 18th, 2008 at 12:42 pm.Using the hand drier for longer than necessary always gives me satisfaction
Posted by Kev on March 18th, 2008 at 1:07 pm.I’ve been championing mobile CTA based urinal ads for AGES based on this very thing!
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Posted by James Whatley on March 18th, 2008 at 1:14 pm.Kev’s suggestion sounds good - also ignoring the urinals and flushing the toilet should make it clear for the poor sod at the other end of the call.
Mind you, if you’re unfortunate enough to be stuck on a business call with someone whose taking a leak - then the last thing you want is to know about it. So perhaps flushing the toilet is punishing the wrong person!
Posted by Chris on March 18th, 2008 at 6:54 pm.