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Oh please, as if anyone can tell! Just shove loo roll down the loo so there are no sound effects, try not to grunt and don't flush until you put the phone down.
well I'm not sure what they can hear it's just that when I flush they say incredulously "are you on the toilet!!!!!" so they must hear the flush and probably they can hear the wee too.
I do sometimes try to cough when I think the poo is going to hit the water though, to try to disguise what I'm actually doing.
car crash posting. I just keep watching in horror. Seriously actually I think I am permanently scarred just by reading this.Mental images - can't control them - arrggghhh !
Screw the carbon footprint/ etiquette issues. If I'm in the middle of a great conversation I know I'd rather just quickly go than ask to call back and lose 'the moment'
no, nametaken, I don't have a cordless phone and I don't think it'd stretch from the living room. I'm not opposed in principle to splatting and chatting, but I think running an extension upstairs so I can plug it in the bathroom is a little much, even by my standards.
I wee whilst talking on the phone *hangs head in shame*. I NORMALLY go to the toilt to do it, though
I wouldn't poo. Ever. Not that I have a problem with someone else doing that - I'd just be too embarassed. I can't poo in public places, either. Not even friends houses.
I don't see the problem. I would try and make sure they don't know, unless it's my Mum or DH. As someone else said, it's better than interrupting a good conversation!
I remember an old school friends house. They had a large downstairs loo that was wall to wall bookshelves. I did wonder what smells might permeate those books, and who would be on the loo for long enough to pick up a book.
Thing is it was a huge house, there were far better places for books to be kept.
i wee, and poo (with the loo paper to muffle the sound!), and do dishes, put out washing and a whole load of other stuff (yes including MN!!) wheen i am on the phone otherwise i feel as iff i am wasting time by 'just' chatting. well not the weeing and pooing thats just cos i need to at the time obv oh and i ALWAYS read on the loo!
what the hells wrong with that? normal practice imo and e
When you've worked in a call center, you've heard it all! I've had people ringing me in echoing places, and could even hear flushing! Years ago, was sorting someones car insurance out and you could hear dripping and splashing and swishing noises, so i just asked him "are you calling us from your bath?" and he did say "yes" very sheepishly. Also have had people ringing up and crying about their lives, just because i sounded nice i suppose and not like a robot. Don't work in call centers anymore as they DO you want you to be a robot and you're not allowed to make small talk at all.
No I couldn't do that, though I did once answer my mobile whilst on the loo at work, god knows why - I was dying of shame and trying to er ... 'hold back' whilst trying to have a serious convo
DH reads on the loo and works from his laptop on the loo. But even he would draw the line at phone calls whilst seated in thronely comford
You must be my mother. She does that! Even more annoying though, she insits on having chats with the idiot DB, who lives with her so she sees him every day, who is perhaps in the smae room as her, adn i'm on the phone. I will be chatting then I will hear her very faintly say "where are you going? What time will you be back" I think FFS he is 32 (yes you did read that correctly, 32) and you see him every day!
I have worked in call centres too. Before the days of hands free kits I used to say "I will answer your question once I can hear that you have PULLED OVER "
and to the OP I can chat and poo. Never bothered me and I doubt many people would notice. I am very subtle at it.
I do, if desperate, wee while on the phone but draw the line at pooing. To be honest I've never really mastered the art of pulling off a bit of loo roll with one hand. And I've done the dropping the phone in the loo trick as well . DH always managed to complete the crosssword if done on the loo - seems to have some weird effect on his brain function .
Oh, and just to add a little anecdote of my own...my ex nanny employer had her own en-suite and then a bathroom for me, her child and any visitors and she provided the full volume of Harry Potter books on the window ledge directly above the toilet for us to read while having a poo
This is so funny - I asked this question ony weeing not poo - when I was in Italy a while ago, and they said only the English would think of it! If the other person cannot see you - does it matter? I have weed on a business call to my delight - you know, you scrunch your fanjo so the wee trickles out? You ALL know what I mean. I had a business colleague who did the same only his bathroom echoed so I always knew! I am surprised at these folk who wince - do you ever talk on the phone when you are naked? It is the same surely? I cannot bare people who sniff on the phone.
DH phones me when he goes for a poo at work!! i hate it!! and he is always taking his books or magazines or puzzle books to the loo with him, he says its the only time he gets some peace in this house!!
Definitely a big NO to pooing on the loo - but then I can't imagine that anyone ever gets a really sudden urge to poo that they can't hold in for 2 minutes to finish their conversation.
I've never taken the phone into the loo with me but I almost always read on the loo - we have a magazine rack by the bath so I tend to grab something out of that (Sunday paper sections/catalogues etc).
Worse than toiletry habits, I once had a boss who dialed into a conf call from home, and carried on having sex with his lady-friend without hitting mute. Now THAT was unpleasant...
LittleWonder - no, I don't talk on the phone when I am naked. I once answered the phone to FIL & said 'I must go, my hair's dripping' & he asked me if I'd just got out of the shower, & made approving noises - YUK!!
Anyway, no, I would never talk on the phone whilst on the bog - don't know which is worse, the germs or the bad manners. I was once in the loo in Sainsbury's & someone came into the cubicle next door & phoned someone. Gross. Talking at the top of her voice too, presumably to drown out 'noises' but it meant I was trapped listening to her inane conversation while I was in there. Unspeakably bad manners all round.
ManhattanMama "I can't imagine that anyone ever gets a really sudden urge to poo that they can't hold in for 2 minutes to finish their conversation." Well try taking Orlistat and thn seeing if you can hold it for 2 minutes, I haven't managed 2 seconds yet! And for gods sake, don't fart if your on them and on the phone, otherwise the pooing on the loo is no longer an issue, as the person you're having the conversation with just heard you follow through into yer undies!!!!!
Nothing wrong with it at all (grunt)...as a matter of fact (hnnnghh)... with wi fi and a laptop (gggrrraaahhh!) you can even post on MN (splash....aaahhh!)
Not averse to a bit of loo-phonery; but resist flushing or other obvious noises off, if possible. Come to think of it, there was a phone in the bathroom at my parents' house for a spell, so it must be in the genes . What I CAN'T abide is cross-cubicle chat in public loos, for some inconsistent reason I just find that wrong and refuse to co-operate if friends initiate!
he he this is funny.. must confess im at poo'er while on the phone but do put loo roll down to disguise the plop!!! and have done it while on phone to sort bills out and things
he he this is funny.. must confess im at poo'er while on the phone but do put loo roll down to disguise the plop!!! and have done it while on phone to sort bills out and things
don't you/the people you;re talking to find the phone a bit echoey in the bathroom? isn't that a give away.
I have spoken to my boss while dealing with a poo-ing dd. but that was in the sitting room on a potty - no give away plops or echoes. definitely multi-tasking.
Poetic justice to "attend to business" while 'on hold' to customer services in revenge for piped Vivaldi. However, a bit like Russian roulette if adviser picks up the call or false-roulette if they have those intermittent messages that come on from time to time.
maidamess wiping yer arse while you are on the phone? same principl, as I said earlier - If you do it regularly, you do get very good at holding the phone between shoulder and ear whilst washingyourhands Wiping your arse.
i once had to wee into a jug whilst talking to solicitor on the phone. he talks so slowly (which is bad enough as he charges by the hour)but it was on his phone bill so I didn't want to excuse myself and offer to ring him back. He never suspected
Couldn't poo though (bit of a grunter ) so deffo no!
all these people questioning handwashing - hold phone between ear and shoulder, this leaves you with 2 hands, you can wipe, wash and wave blimmin wands whilst on the point. My Mum lets her food go cold because she will not eat and talk to me at the same time.
am too uncoordinated, would probably wipe my arse with the mouthpiece.
also i have a rare condition that means i believe people can see me when they are on the phone. there are certain people that i cannot (by reason of their physical repulsiveness) speak to when I am naked.
I am with Alistair Sim: there are certain people who, as soon as they get on the phone, make my bowels move like lightening. but yes I always hang up, mainly because what do you do with the phone while you wipe and wash
haven't read all of thread - only a selection of responses
why would anyone know that's what you were doing? as to where the phone is when you wipe then wash your hands don't you hold it between your shoulder and chin??
i'm not confessing to anything, just saying i don't think it's that unreasonable if you are truly and efficiently multi-tasking!!!
i have a chum who's quite comfortable with poo-ing while on the phone he's given me a running commentary once or twice, too i'm quite happy to wee while on the phone, though
I don't think I would do this, but see the point. And I ALWAYS read on the loo. I mean, it's so boring. What are you supposed to do, just sit there and look at the tiles? I like it as it gives me 5 minutes peace with Grazia.
once peed whilst on phone totally by mistake (butterfly-brain moment) in middle of long conversation - felt so embarrassed - thank god it was my sister at end of line who said "well we all get caught short from time to time" in very brisk, schoolmistressy tones when I apologised ...just grateful it wasn't the bank manager ...
draw the line at pooing though - yuck ....
crying with laughter at this thread
as for mumsnetting on lap-top while pooing, words fail me ...
I have taken calls from a professional institution while in the bath, and i have had to call suppliers on a project and get tough with them, again in the bath. It was hard not making any splashing sounds!
I have to hold my hands up here - yes I've pooed while on the phone. Usually while talking to my sister in Oz (hopefully she can't here it from there!)
We only have one bathroom in our house and it was only until recently that in the morning rush one of us might have been on the toilet (usually weeing) while another was brushing their teeth etc. Now the kids have grown up a bit they all want their privacy
I've also breastfed my babies while sitting on the loo - they're all perfectly fine and in fact they don't get colds etc. half as much as their friends!
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