Should one email or text message while sitting on the can?  The International Center for Bathroom Etiquette has some good information on this very subject:

I mean really think about it. Everything that you touch with your hands is a source of possible contamination - especially out in public where you have no idea what filthy bastards have been using the bathroom before you. So if you touch something, and then touch your Blackberry, you are pretty much coating that Blackberry with feces. Really. And that’s pretty gross when you think about it.

I imagine that not many people actually do this but I have been in the bathroom and heard someone playing a game on their phone.  If you are touching things in the bathroom, touching your phone, and later putting that phone up to your face, you are pretty much putting other peoples’ ass matter on your face.  That’s just plain nasty!  Bottom line is that unless its a life and death you shouldn’t be handling any cell phones / pda’s while visiting the bathroom.

Check out more great bathroom etiquette over at icbe.org.

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