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polite is right!!!
As I am sure you can imagine, i try to keep up on all things polite. Today at lunch I read Miss Manners. A woman wrote with a public restroom etiquette questions. This woman was out to dinner with her spouse at a larger restaurant. She felt the call of nature at one point and hurried to the ladies' room. On her way in she ran into a female neighbor who started up a conversation. As the two moved into stalls the neighbor kept talking. The lady with the question felt uncomfortable, and kept quiet. Eventually, the neighbor excused herself, but she had kept talking up to that point. The lady with the question asked MM what she should have done.
MM opined that as the stall door closed she should have simply said, "well you'll have to excuse me now." But doesn't that imply some level of required concentration to make conversation impossible or at least difficult.
At my office, if only a co-worker and i are in the men's I'll engage in stall talk. Is it a male/female issue, or perhaps male/old-school lady issue?
Maybe it's a vous/tu thing?
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Last edited by Hank Chinaski; 01-16-2007 at 01:09 PM..
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