Bathroom Humor
At work our group was moved to some newly renovated space within the building. It is very quiet and comfortable. Since all of us work from home most of the time it was decided that we would all share offices. I share my office with a very nice girl my age. I have fun with her and she makes me laugh most of the time. On the other hand she is so hyper and talks so much that it is hard for me to get much work done. I admit that sometimes when I know she is going to be in the office I choose to work from home.
The other thing about my new office is that we have one of those door size glass windows. It let’s in some nice light, but because we have two desks in the room and there is only one way they can be arranged, my desk faces the window and directly across from us is the men’s restroom for our section.
It has been a month or so since we moved and now I know everybody’s toilet habits. How often they go, how long they stay, what time of day etc.
I always look away or pretend I am very busy when I see a male coworker going to the bathroom. I notice that most of the guys give our office a glance to see if they are being seen. Lately I have noticed one particular coworker who will give a quick glance as he reaches for the door handle to the restroom. If he sees that I am in the office he pulls his hand back and will keep walking down the hall. My guess is that he goes to one of the other two bathrooms in the building. It makes me laugh. I bet he loves it when I work from home and he has nobody watching his bathroom trips.
We had construction workers in the building the other day. One of them obviously didn’t care about who was watching. As soon as I heard the toilet flash, he left the room. There was definitely no time for washing up. Yuk!!
Yesterday as I was leaving my office for a meeting in the conference room next door, a male coworker opened the bathroom’s door aggressively.We only had a few minutes before the start of the meeting and my guess was that he was trying to rush to the bathroom so he could be in the meeting on time. I heard a scream as soon as he opened the door. He closed the door very quickly and made a face. I smiled back at him. In the meeting I was sitting with the man who was using the bathroom and the one who opened the door on him,plus another male coworker that I’ve never seen use the bathroom. I couldn’t stop smiling and was giggling inside. I felt bad for the guy who was in the bathroom, so to make him feel better I decided to tell a story about one of my own bathroom experiences. I told him how once when I was getting ready for work at my summer job I went to the bathroom to change into my uniform. For some reason I took all my clothes off, and before putting my uniform on I had to go. I was already naked so I thought it made sense to just use the toilet the way I was and then put my uniform on.
A customer entered the bathroom while I was sitting naked on the toilet. I screamed at the top of my lungs and the person run out of the restroom. I think I spent another 30 minutes in the bathroom just to make sure that woman left the building. After I told the story the guys just smiled politely and then I got uncomfortable and embarrassed.
As I was watching TV that night with my husband, I started laughing as I remembered the days events. My husband of course asked me what I was laughing about and I told him the whole incident.
His first response was,”Nice job!! You started the meeting off by giving those guys a mental picture of you naked.”
Me,”What?!!! Are you serious?? OMG, you're right! No wonder they just sat there !!!”
The other thing about my new office is that we have one of those door size glass windows. It let’s in some nice light, but because we have two desks in the room and there is only one way they can be arranged, my desk faces the window and directly across from us is the men’s restroom for our section.
It has been a month or so since we moved and now I know everybody’s toilet habits. How often they go, how long they stay, what time of day etc.
I always look away or pretend I am very busy when I see a male coworker going to the bathroom. I notice that most of the guys give our office a glance to see if they are being seen. Lately I have noticed one particular coworker who will give a quick glance as he reaches for the door handle to the restroom. If he sees that I am in the office he pulls his hand back and will keep walking down the hall. My guess is that he goes to one of the other two bathrooms in the building. It makes me laugh. I bet he loves it when I work from home and he has nobody watching his bathroom trips.
We had construction workers in the building the other day. One of them obviously didn’t care about who was watching. As soon as I heard the toilet flash, he left the room. There was definitely no time for washing up. Yuk!!
Yesterday as I was leaving my office for a meeting in the conference room next door, a male coworker opened the bathroom’s door aggressively.We only had a few minutes before the start of the meeting and my guess was that he was trying to rush to the bathroom so he could be in the meeting on time. I heard a scream as soon as he opened the door. He closed the door very quickly and made a face. I smiled back at him. In the meeting I was sitting with the man who was using the bathroom and the one who opened the door on him,plus another male coworker that I’ve never seen use the bathroom. I couldn’t stop smiling and was giggling inside. I felt bad for the guy who was in the bathroom, so to make him feel better I decided to tell a story about one of my own bathroom experiences. I told him how once when I was getting ready for work at my summer job I went to the bathroom to change into my uniform. For some reason I took all my clothes off, and before putting my uniform on I had to go. I was already naked so I thought it made sense to just use the toilet the way I was and then put my uniform on.
A customer entered the bathroom while I was sitting naked on the toilet. I screamed at the top of my lungs and the person run out of the restroom. I think I spent another 30 minutes in the bathroom just to make sure that woman left the building. After I told the story the guys just smiled politely and then I got uncomfortable and embarrassed.
As I was watching TV that night with my husband, I started laughing as I remembered the days events. My husband of course asked me what I was laughing about and I told him the whole incident.
His first response was,”Nice job!! You started the meeting off by giving those guys a mental picture of you naked.”
Me,”What?!!! Are you serious?? OMG, you're right! No wonder they just sat there !!!”



29 Comments:
At 9:35 PM,
Anonymous said…
Yeah, well... I am not going to say anything. Don't want to be distracted.
At 11:22 PM,
Anonymous said…
I think your husband was correct, but this time around you just gave at least 120 guys this same "mental image"! ;)
btw, to solve your window problem, I use a self adhesive frosted vinyl film. Looks like etched glass & still allows the light in.
At 11:49 PM,
Leilouta said…
Be careful or I will tell the story of walking in on my father in the shower..:)
At 12:20 AM,
Anonymous said…
ehhh, gee thanks! it's ruined already! :P
At 1:27 AM,
Speedking said…
You can laugh at work?
You have a coworker who makes jokes and so one?
Let's change partners !!!
In the new town, yes we also change place with the company, the new building isn't dark as the old one, it's everything new ... but me two coworkers are the same:
old and they are unable to make jokes, they can not laugh ... :-(
So I'm on the search for a nice coworker with a scene of a clown .. ;-)
Greetings Norbert
At 10:12 AM,
The Moody Minstrel said…
As soon as I heard the toilet flash, he left the room. There was definitely no time for washing up. Yuk!!
Have you ever seen the "Far Side" cartoon where a guy comes out of a restroom in a crowded restaurant, and suddenly a bell rings and a sign above the restroom door starts flashing "Didn't wash hands"? Maybe your office needs something like that.
I didn't realize going to the bathroom was such a private thing. You'd think your coworkers would want to make it clear that they were using it so as to avoid something like what you described! Sheesh...isn't there a lock on the door or something?
At 2:05 PM,
Anonymous said…
you know, i can never look at a guy when they're coming out of the bathroom... it feels weird to me. i guess the same goes for me. i don't want anyone looking at me going in or coming out and i usually don't make any eye contact beforehand or afterwards. it seems weird... just like hearing someone talk on phone while they're going. when i hear my sister doing this, i'm always like "are you going to the toilet right now"... and she laughs and then flushes!
i have an extremely shy bladder... can't even go in front of ppl, not even in the hospital. :)
funny story, and what the guys were thinking was the first thing that popped into my mind. i'm sure they laughed after you left the room embarrassed by the fact that you know they are embarrassed about going in w/ you knowing.
At 5:43 PM,
Anonymous said…
LOL That is an awkward story to tell at a meeting, to guys.
At 9:19 PM,
gatorbait said…
Is it suddenly kind of hot in here>
At 11:58 PM,
Olivia said…
LOL poor Leila, this is the last thing we want coworkers to think of every time...
At 7:32 AM,
Romerican said…
Interestingly, I would venture that most guys would *only* because concerned about their corporate bathroom habits being monitored by *women* (particularly, attractive women)... and probably not giving a damn about what other men think (who probably wouldn't much notice or care, at all).
I think it's plain gender/sexual tension in the corporate atmosphere. In my experience.
Anyway, your husbands reaction was not only funny, in that he told you bluntly, but was probably exactly correct! I thought the same thing...
At 9:33 AM,
Anonymous said…
Hmmm, i wouldnt even say such a story to my mother let alone a work colleague, but what amazes me still is the fact that many guys do not wash their hands after using the toilet!! & whats even more disgusting is that many do not flush the toilet even, it cannot be that difficult to flush a toilet.
At 7:09 PM,
Anonymous said…
We have a small gym on the ground floor of our office building. Attached to the gym is a one stall bathroom and a shower/locker room. Not many people use the gym. Nothing more awkward than getting on the stationary bike, and seeing someone come out of what we refer to as 'the dump bathrooms'.
At 12:44 PM,
Anonymous said…
I actually laughed outloud at this one.
They probably just wanted to forget all about it and pretend it didn't happen.
Once when I was about 12 I walked into a dressing room I thought was my mothers and a good 10 seconds later I looked at the body infront of me. That is not my mom's armpit, I remember thinking. I looked up at the face and sure enough a woman who wasn't my mother was just staring at me in horror. I yelped. She yelped. And my mom said, "Are you okay?" from the next dressing room over.
At 2:19 PM,
Anonymous said…
Thanks for a great laugh. I love your stories.
At 5:10 PM,
gatorbait said…
Well, as long as everything came out okay in the end...
At 1:16 AM,
Summer said…
HAHAHAHA!
I'm famous for saying things that I shouldn't. I love knowing that I'm not the only one in the world with problem. Funnnnnnnny story! : )
At 4:53 PM,
Anonymous said…
Leilouta--
I hope you will see and respond to this. I was talking to someone today about your blog, and he says it's fake. Like, there is no real Leilouta, and it's all fictional, made up, like that Bree and Daniel thing was. He didn't come out and say this, but I suspect he thinks your blog is really written by some US gov't agency, like the CIA. The way he said it was like, this is a well known fact among bloggers and he couldn't believe I was stupid enough to fall for believing you're a real person. I thought you should know about this, and I wondered if there's anything you can post to prove you're real?!
Bianca
At 6:51 PM,
Elaine said…
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Omg!! First your post is hilarious! It must be entertaining to see the goings on in the men's bathroom. I also would not have realized that you gave them a mental image of you naked with that story. I guess women just dont' think that way whereas men. Well ...they're men.
and Bianca, as for proving Leilouta is real? i've sent her NKOTB memorabilia ...and I dont' think the CIA was a big fan of boy bands. I think they're more into soft rock.
At 12:59 AM,
Anonymous said…
elaine, NKOTB also worked for the CIA, I thought that was obvious! ;)
At 7:03 PM,
Miss Carnivorous said…
My co worker does on line gambling all day. The slot machine thingy. Every time I stand up in my cubicle she minimizes it. Like I care! I am not the supervisor!
At 10:10 PM,
Anonymous said…
Anon,
I've met Leilouta before, she's real. 100%. Then again, I do work for the CIA...;)
At 8:15 AM,
The Moody Minstrel said…
Chris, you mean you DON'T work for the CIA? I thought we all did!
Oops, wait...no, I didn't mean that. Nope. It was a typo. No CIA here. These aren't the droids we're looking for. Move along. Move along.
(KNL, you'd better be quiet!)
At 3:17 PM,
Anonymous said…
Bianca,
Your friend is an idiot. Sorry. It just gets so boring hearing people claiming that nay blogger they don't like is on somebody's payroll. I know of a few bloggers who actually are subsidized for their blogging, and they don't make a secret of the fact that they are sponsored. I'd really like to believe that some bloggers (like Um Khalil) are being paid for their propaganda, as that would make it more acceptable, somehow. In the case of Leilouta's blog, though, I really don't see why anybody would make such a claim, eh? She rarely even talks about politics or religion. It's true that when she does it tends to get pretty heated, but that's probably because L has a lot of fans with wildly different opinions on these issues.
At 3:20 PM,
Anonymous said…
Bianca,
Your friend is an idiot. Sorry. It just gets so boring hearing people claiming that any blogger they don't like is on somebody's payroll. I know of a few bloggers who actually are subsidized for their blogging, and they don't make a secret of the fact that they are sponsored. I'd really like to believe that some bloggers (like Um Khalil) are being paid for their propaganda, as that would make it more acceptable, somehow. In the case of Leilouta's blog, though, I really don't see why anybody would make such a claim, eh? She rarely even talks about politics or religion. It's true that when she does it tends to get pretty heated, but that's probably because L has a lot of fans with wildly different opinions on these issues.
At 4:10 PM,
jack said…
It's time you pull up your britches, get out of the bathroom and post something.
Or you sitting there thinking?
At 8:18 AM,
Massir said…
@ Leïlouta:
J'ai une question pour toi sur mon blog:
http://massir.blogs.psychologies.com/mon_massir/2007/01/kenza_ma_lanc_u.html
At 6:20 AM,
BuJ said…
nice blog.. very sedate writing.. interesting about the toilet experience.. u must be an observant person!
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