OK now I want to preface this with just saying that I’m normally VERY precious about these matters (my pearls are usually firmly in my hand being clutched) but when I had the memory of this event earlier - I laughed like a drain - I just had to see the funny side.
Ahem - anyway - around the early part of 1999 I would say as best guess - I was living back with my Dad - mum died - after a break up.
Most people used landlines still in 1999, imo.
Anyway, our main house phone was on a bench next to the front door and opposite this is the downstairs loo.
Anyway what I think the preamble to this event was is that my friend phoned, my Dad was downstairs and answered the phone and I took the call upstairs on the only other phone extension in the house which was in the master bedroom.
My Dad left the phone off the hook - as you did in them days - (this thread doesn’t lend itself to ‘correct’ grammar) - and I picked up the phone upstairs in the master bedroom. The phone must’ve been left off the hook on the downstairs extension because I then started having the phone conversation with my friend and during the course of this conversation with my friend I clearly hear my Dad loudly pissing in the toilet which is located just by the downstairs phone - he’d obviously left the toilet door fully open and as I said, the downstairs phone off the hook.
During the phone convo with my friend although she didn’t refer to this directly, I could hear her tone of voice getting a bit embarrassed and self conscious. The pissing seemed to last an eternity.
As I’ve said I’m normally VERY precious in these matters but this made me lol earlier and I couldn’t resist sharing