2-2-At-2

In my last entry I touched on the issue of talking on the phone in the bathroom. In my opinion it's gross, it's tasteless, it's rude to those around you who need complete silence to do their business. But how many people are more open the idea of text on the can?

I know at least one co-worker who admits freely to texting while shitting. He does No. 2 at 2PM and goes down to the second floor bathrooms to do it. He goes there because he thinks their bathrooms are nicer. They're exactly the same. It's referred to at work as the 2-2-at-2. And he texts coworkers when he does it saying, "Guess where I am?"

A couple of days ago I'm sure I caught a covert texter who was sending a message while on the toilet. From the stall, I heard a soft clicking sound, like the kind you might here from a keypad of a cell phone. There were no beeps, just the clicking sound.

I have never sent a text message from a cell phone in my entire life. It's true. I don't use them. The reason why is an entirely different story. But texting while in the bathroom makes me think of one of my friends who dropped his cell phone in -- his own words -- "a piss-filled toilet." I never asked if he was texting while pissing, but he is a consummate texter and the more I think about it, I think that's how it went down.