Flibbertigibbet

This may be a good time to remind everybody of the men's room conversation laws. You may only engage in conversation if both people are in the same relative position. That is; both sitting, both at the urinal, both washing hands. Ploppers and pissers should not speak with each other. Pissers and washers should not speak to each other. And for the love of all that is holy never should a plopper speak to a washer.

The one exception to this rule is if your stall is out of paper. In this case of en extremis the urgency of the situation overrides the conversation rule.

I think that if you're considering the rules for when it's ok to talk or not, then you should already have the rules for staring down.

No staring in the men's room. I don't care what you see.

I wasn't going to say anything, but you are really out of the loop on this one. This practice is both common and frequently, to many, desirable. (Oh, the train station in Florence...)

The next time it happens (and it will happen again), think, "Maybe this person is trying to communicate non-verbally, 'Please don't beat the **** out of me for thinking you're kind of hot.'"

If you're not interested, just make eye contact and shake your head as if to say, "Thanks, but no." You can still be polite to the horny but socially repressed men-folk.

And if you are interested, I'll meet you in the handicap stall. ;-)

Yeah, I had no idea. I mean, I've heard the jokes about construction sites and everything, but this was the first time that I realized that THAT was what people are talking about.

Fascinating.

Don't forget the spacing rule: Never use the urinal next to someone else unless it's the only one open.

Am I the only one who knows about this one?