To think you don't talk to people on the loo?!

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There's a couple of ladies at work who always try to have a conversation with you whilst you're in the cubicle next to them.

AIBU to think you just don't do this and it's odd?! It puts me right off and I have to wait until whoever it is has left to go! The fact that multiple of them do it though makes me think maybes it's normal?

You should ring a little bell while weeing so that no one can hear you or try to talk to you.

Very odd.
Maybe it hasn’t occurred to them to put loo roll down the loo to cover up the sound of peeing, so they have to talk instead?

Or maybe they go in there to do a line of coke and it makes them very chatty?

I would chat to close friends/family while they were or I was in a cubicle but not a work colleague.

DH and I often have great conversations while one is sat on the loo...we sort of fell into having an open door kind of relationship! Maybe because we travelled/backpacked a great deal together in the early days and we had absolutely no privacy and soon got used to it!

This is the sort of thread that splits Mumsnet..much like shoes on/off.

You don't have kids do you OP? Once you've sat on the bog with an inquisitive sprog or 2 or 3 sat in the room with you to continue a conversation about any and all random shite then you'll discover it's quite an interesting concept to exchange pleasantries with other adults while you pee!

I know a few like this, I don’t like it either - it makes me a bit self-conscious and then I can’t wee

But I don’t mind at home.

Dh likes to sit outside the room and chat while I use the loo.
Have called him a poo troll many times.
Weeing in peace is the only me time I get.
Usually have 2 ddogs in there or a dc shouting 'mam'!!

Fine with friends if you’re having a wee, but nothing more. Sometimes go into the same cubicle in, say, a restaurant.

But not work colleagues.

I’ve really not found this @StrongerThanIThought76. For me there’s still a difference between going to the toilet and chatting with my kids/ on a night out with friends and chatting away to a colleague at work in the next cubicle - maybe it depends how well you know them.

Always with friends, sometimes with partners, never with work colleagues!

I get it's different with family, children, close friends and spouses. Me and H have many a conversation on the loo or in the bath whatever. Even the odd one where I've been in the bath and he's been on the loo if he's been desperate

BUT I don't think I'd dream of just chatting away to a colleague whilst they were trying to relieve themselves. It just seems really weird

I had a boss that used to do this. I was her deputy and she’d see me as I was walking to the loo, start talking about something, follow me into the loo and continue the conversation while we were both doing our business. Used to drive me up the wall!

Nope, i’d Hate this. It would feel really weird. I can’t even poo if someone else is there, I have to hold it in until i’m Sure i’m The only one in the loos.

I can’t even poo if someone else is there, I have to hold it in until i’m Sure i’m The only one in the loos

Yep, me too!

I think you have to know someone really well to be able to do this. Work colleagues aren't close enough for this.

I only do to if I'm drunk, generally laughing and shouting to each other - certaintly not a normal sober convo!

I hate this, and tell my kids, "I do not speak through the toilet door". i.e. "Bugger off!"

Luckily I've not experienced it at work. FFS, there's rarely anything so important that it can't wait 60 seconds.

It doesn’t bother me unless I’m trying to poo, but I tend to save my pooing for home time.

This gives me an excuse to post the Austin Powers toilet sketch

Oh I love a good chat through the cubicles!

It's a very odd thing to do to a work colleague. I even find it awkward talking to a work colleague in the loos just washing hands! I almost never poo in work. We have a nice, quiet, single toilet on another floor that people use for poos. Isn't that the same for most workplaces? A quick check to see if anyone is around before heading in and an even quicker escape after!

We have individual rooms, proper soundproofed, heavy floor to ceiling doors and sinks in each one. Bliss
And if you really worry then the customer ones are the same but have music speakers in too

If I walk into the loo at the same time as someone else (because of a comfort break in a meeting, for example) then it seems rude to stop talking. I usually laugh and tell ask them whether they are going to whistle or sing.
At home we all do. Rarely close the door for a pee.
I hate the term comfort break. Much worse than hearing someone pee whilst laughing about a faux pas in the meeting.

At my work we only have two cubicles in the womens as it is such a small team. If someone happens to be in there at the same time as me we will have a little chat. But then that is because we are such a small team I suppose, and all quite close!

In bigger companies I have worked for previously it would be an odd thing to happen!

Reminds me of a visit to a village in the Peak District. The loos were a small building in the middle of the village green, I went into the ladies and there was a man cleaning them. Didn't bother me , so we exchanged greetings and I carried on into a cubicle. However the man kept up the conversation discussing the nice weather while I was 'engaged' so to speak!
Made me chuckle.