Never, EVER, Speak to Justin on the Phone

[PoolMan]

Sorry J, you deserve public recognition for this.

So Justin calls me up this morning for a little chitchat (short conversation for us, only about 25 minutes), and we're just shooting the breeze, talking about the Fark hits, his church, my play, when all of a sudden...

His voice starts to echo.

I made a joke about about him suddenly sounding like he was on the moon. Y'know, maybe he's had problems with the phone, maybe I'm suddenly on speaker, who knows?

Oh no, he's in the can.

Quite openly, he says he's in the bathroom, and not just to get something out of his eye. Oh no. OH NO, I say.

And while I'm uncomfortably squirming on the other end of the phone, he announces he's done, and then starts debating shaking techniques that he and his college buddy used to use. Shaking. Hopefully that doesn't need clarification.

So, thank you, Justin, for such an interesting conversation. I'm off to sob in the bathtub now.

[Head Mutant]

See, this is where it's obvious you never lived in a dorm in college -- bathroom conversations were quite frequent and unbashful. Heck, Lance used to bring his guitar into the stall and we'd gather outside for impromptu performances.

[Lissa]

My sister has a very annoying tendency to do this. It's worse when there's sound effects. LOUD sound effects.

[PoolMan]

Head said:

See, this is where it's obvious you never lived in a dorm in college

And you can just tell how much I regret not having that experience.

[DocD83]

I was in a dorm for two years and I never had anything like that happen. Of course considering I was a hermit whose primary social interaction consisted of trolling web forums (hint: find a world issues forum and declare your support for Israel) I'm not exactly a representative sampling of the population.

Once when I had just gotten out of the shower (before I was in college) I got a prank call from one of my friends who was trying (badly) to disguise his voice. My mom had handed in the portable phone and for about 10 minutes for reasons I no longer remember I told him how some species can change genders in a single-sex environment. I've only heard it happen to frogs and fish but I told him it was rabbits. He was speaking very quietly too, but I didn't think of it in time to say "You'll have to speak up I'm wearing a towel." No worries though because right up until the end he had no idea I was anywhere near the shower. Then he gave me two numbers and asked me to call them right back--he wasn't very good at prank calls...why would I call him right back if I have him on the phone now? He must have realized this too late and started to drag the conversation out trying to fix it, so i said, "Do you mind hurrying up? The numbers are getting fogged out."
"What?"
"I don't have paper handy so I wrote it in a fogged up mirror."
"You just got out of the shower?"
"Yes."
"So you are--"
"Naked, yes."
"Ugh! Just call me back." *click*

Those numbers, by the way, were the home numbers of two prominent members of our church.

[DarthToad]

Ya know, I tend to go to the bathroom when I talk to my friend from Califonia and he never complains, but whatever. If anyone ever complains about it i'll stop.