Esprit de urinale

[bluegargantua]

Hey,

So I'm standing at a urinal the other day, doing my thing, when a stranger pulls up to the spot next to me, gets his business underway and then says to me "You only rent, you never buy".

Friends -- I'm engaged in serious, meditative, business. Please, even if you're a friend of mine, don't chat with me at such a moment. And if you don't know me at all? Seriously.

Plus, really kinda the oldest bathroom one-liner ever.

But I give the socially appropriate "heh" and we finish up. He's done first, says, "have a good one" and leaves. It's like the guy doesn't have the first clue about how to use a public restroom.

However, later that night, I realize there was a super-appropriate come-back to his first remark which I shall now share with you here:

"You never buy, you're always renting."
"And the worst part is that you never get your security deposit back."

Your Welcome
Tom

Comments

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Gah, I HATE when someone tries to talk to me when I'm in the bathroom stall. I'll have pants-around-knees and someone will say "Do you know if we have Report X in PDF format, and if not can you scan it? " Or some other completely inappropriate-for-the-moment bullshit.

[bluegargantua]

Oh man, that's even worse! Try ripping out a wet fart?

later
Tom

[catling.livejournal.com]

Ha! We were talking about this today in my Research Methods class. We were discussing ethics in research, which led to examining a research study where they actually put HIDDEN CAMERAS into men's urinals angled just to catch the, err, stream and then tested what effect it had to have male researchers go into the men's room and lean too close to men using the urinals. (ie, track what the delay factor was)

The argument being made was that a public bathroom was fair game for such research, with me and some others arguing that this was intrusive and just plain not cool.

[kcatalyst.livejournal.com]

Holy moly, I'd like to see the IRB justification on that one.

[catling.livejournal.com]

RIGHT? My prof says this was conducted in Sweden where they are apparently more laid back about such things. I can't imagine.