Saturday, October 25, 2008

Kat's Pet Peeves

It's time to once again publish my list (my LOOOONNNNGG list) of pet peeves. I'll be doing it a little at a time and adding to it frequently I'm sure. There are other people out there that have done similar lists, and done them better I'm sure, but putting the things that annoy me on here makes me feel better, and is a form of anger management! Here we go...

  • People who talk on their cell phones in the bathroom - And I mean any bathroom; public or the one in your bedroom. But of course it's horrifying public restroom cell phone talkers who are the worst! First of all, public restrooms in general have strange acoustics; they are tinny and echoey and people are usually self-conciously trying to pee or poop etc as quietly as possible, so when someone is talking on the phone in there the conversation seems really loud. Second, people (cell phone talker included) are PEEING AND POOPING ETC.! Do you know how uncomfortable it is to be taking care of business while someone in the stall next to you is having a conversation about what they did over the weekend or about the problems they're having with their child's daycare provider? And there's the flushing! Flushing toilets are loud things; especially public toilets. Inevitably the bathroom cellphone talker just ends up yelling over the flush and making things worse. And what must it be like for the person on the other end of the phone? Can you imagine talking to one of your friends hearing maybe the faint sound of urine streaming but ignoring it and then hearing the tell-tale flush sound and knowing - you've been talking to someone who's been using the toilet! YUCK! You gross motherf*cker! People of the world I beg of you - stop doing this!

3 comments:

Kt said...

Someone working for a different company but on the same floor as mine used to do that, and I just had to stop her. And of course she was upset when I spoke up. Not only was she taking personal calls in the bathroom, but it sounded like they were job-seeking-type calls too -- now that's a great first impression, no?

-Katie L.

Chris M said...

Amen to that -- I think it might be a "girl thing" though, I don't run into that in the mens room as much.

DuchessKitty said...

So many of the women that work on my floor do this. They're mostly from the other department that we share the floor with but there are at least 3 offenders that are in my office. So far I haven't had the courage to speak to any of them about it, but I'm sure I'm going to have my breaking point soon.
And while I'm sure women are the bigger culprits in this horrible habit, just yesterday Robert encountered a guy at the bar talking on his cell phone in the bathroom stall. NICE.