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with people I don't know well, or co-workers, I'd rather not chat while I'm doing my business.
With close friends of the same sex, I won't have a full-blown conversation, or usually initiate a conversation, but I'll respond if chatted to while peeing. Some of my friends I have known since we were little girls so it's not like we haven't been going to the bathroom together since when we had no notion of embarrassment in that respect.
I have been known to share a stall with a friend in a disco if we're going for a pee and there's a huge queue.
Number two is off limits in any scenario.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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