Bill O'Rights

So...the other day, Mrs. O'Rights was in a public restroom. While she was in there she overheard a conversation with an adult and a little girl. After she finished, and was washing up, the adult came out and also washed up. There was no one else in the restroom.

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Fly

my favorite is when standing at a stall.....i just look the poor bastard next to me right in the eyes,strike up a convo......and wait for him to look at my dick.

kills them every time.

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Walt

I think it has something to do with varying social stigmas, expectations of privacy and definitions of what is a "private act".

Living in Europe for a few years, I noticed that people are much more comfortable with their bodies. Public nudity is no big deal, nor are bodily functions. It wasn't uncommon for complete strangers to strike up a conversation in public restrooms (though it was unsettling at first). The school of thought seemed to be "Hey, I poop, you poop, whatever. Its a necessary biological function. So where are you from in America?".

The US seems to approach it a bit differently, probably due to social conditioning. Here, our bodies and the biological necessity of expelling waste are "private". We all do it, but are somehow ashamed of it to the point that we feel the need to pretend to ignore the guy in the stall next to us and expect the same in return.

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I always find it hilarious that guys in public stalls (who are obviously in the act of shitting) will stop as soon as someone else enters the restroom. They're so self-conscious that they will commit themselves to stop mid-poop, hold it and wait (in total silence) for the other guy to leave before they resume.

/Whenever I encounter a situation like that, I can't help screwing with the guy in the stall by washing my hands for 10 minutes.

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Xerxys

Q: What don't you want to hear while standing at a Urinal?
A: "Nice dick ..."

Glory's Sun

The best convos I've ever heard are when I'm too drunk to realize I walked into the ladies room to piss on accident. Pissin, and since girls travel in pairs, they gab while they're peeing, and I have to try to hide my laughter. I'm not always successful in hiding my laughter. People think guys are crude.. yeah.. I'm gonna have to call it pretty even on that level.

Marlon's Mom

Reminds me of that foreign cab driver in a Spenser novel. Spenser's in the back seat and his driver pulls over at some unknown address. Spenser asks WTF are we doing here, and the cab driver tells him it's his cousin's place (or something like that) and he's gotta drop a log and "Must go familiar place."



Of course, I was like this, too. Until I got IBS-D. Don't really have a choice these days but to use public restrooms for number twos (but I don't talk to anyone while I'm in there).

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At least IBS would be topical.

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blktour

I am a "loud" bathroom user.

I also do not want people to know it is me for some reason, but if I happen to come out and see someone, oh well. Just a preference I guess.

I urinal chat though all the time.

I like making the comment after a guy finishes up from the urinal, "damn, pissed on your hands again? " I do let them know I am just joking of course.

Taralynn

Oh god. I have to concentrate while I pee. I don't want to talk while I'm doing it.

Salem

For me it really depends also. I used to have a horrible time even being able to go in a public rest room, let alone while someone was there and could hear me. If it's someone I am really comfortable with, then I'm okay to chat. But if it's just a random person or someone I don't care that much about, no dice. As for taking a shit... No way. I have to poop alone. I'm like the guys who hold it while someone else is in the bathroom. I seek out individual restrooms if I can.

passthru

This is kinda unrelated, but last time I talked at a urinal was in response to my math teacher saying he had to leave in the middle of class as well. Without thinking, I told him I drank way too much
This was a night class, where I actually had fallen asleep a few times.

If there are barriers it's kinda ok, but seems odd to me. If there are no barriers, what if one person says something surprising and the other looks? It's kinda weird to have somebody make eye contact while you're trying to relieve yourself.

Bill O'Rights

[Tom Hanks]
Eye contact!?! There's no eye contact in a public restroom!
[/Tom Hanks]

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It is indisputable that true beauty lies within...but a nice rack sure doesn't hurt.

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Did he have a twinkle in his eye?

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lionrock

"Hey, nice dick you got there buddy!"

JamesB

"Nice watch" has always been my fav.

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WinchesterAA

That's what happens when you grow up in the city.

I notice that about ya'll down here in Houston.. Lots of worries I don't know shit about. All I'm worried about is staying alive and comfortable in my environment.. All that other crap like urinating and defecation isn't the least bit special to me..

I mean, really.. Doesn't your dog piss in front of you? Why can your dog do that?

You know why? Because your dog is just like me, in that I don't care what you're doing so long as you're not about to injure me, or make me uncomfortable.

So.. Taking a piss is fine, but pissing on me is not fine. Keep that straight, and you can pee wherever you like.

Furthermore, why waste time out of your day to take a piss? Come on, now.. We're all animals, we all piss, poop, bleed, leak strange fluids we don't understand, etc etc.. Who cares but people in the city?

It's all that food you have access to. It spoils you. Confuses your perception of reality, and allows you to get the idea that things matter.

Shauk

I went in to one and this dude just stared at me the entire time over the top of the stall (cuz both urinals were in use) the fact that he was outside and could still see me warranted "jesus dude, you're a tall motherfucker"

which some how degenerated in to him trying to get me to do some MMA fighting for him and his buddies and he was offering me 500$ if I won.

I'm soft like a tub of jello sir, as much as I'd like the money, I wouldn't win against an actual person who works out/trains... not likely anyway.

Blackthorn

This probably doesn't help but one thing that gets me is guys that go into a stall and then jump on the cell phone ... and I don't care who they are talking too. WTF??? Who the hell has a phone conversation while you sitting on the crapper PANTS DOWN!??

I go straight for the flush handle on the urinal just to make sure the party on the other end knows what's going on... that just aint right. No cell phone calls while you're dropping a deuce.

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raging moderate

what I love is *ungh* when the person next to you is *grrt* talking to you mid-poop and *splash - ah* making active sound effects and still talking to you. I'm not entirely enthusiastic about a bathroom conversation anyway but the sound effects have got to go. i don't care if my dog takes a shit in front of me but I don't talk to her while she's doing it. I am guilty of the cell phone piss but i've never done the cell phone poop (in public ).

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oh yeah and I always call people out if I figure out they're on the phone in the can talking to me

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When my female self was much younger: (30 years ago)

I hated it when there was anybody else in the public bathroom.

I would plug my ears when I relieved myself. (especially pooping)

If I couldn't hear it, I figured I was spared from embarrassment.

The only adult conversations I have had or heard in a restroom, have been:

"Damn,there's no toilet paper."

"I have some, here ya go."

& then you pass or receive the paper, under the stall.

Eilonwy

I am very much not for conversing in a public bathroom... or through the bathroom door at someone's house.