Work crapper "situation"

Background: At my work all lights, including the lights in restrooms, are turned on by a motion activated switch.

Well today I'm taking my time on the crapper when all of a sudden the lights go out. Apparently my time ran out according to the motion lighted switch and nobody came in to use the urinal.

The light switch is outside the stall so any motion I make from the crapper is not going to turn the lights back on.


So what would you do? Sit there in the dark and finish? Hope that someone walks in so the lights turn back on? Waddle over and open the stall door and proceed to wave your hand out the door in an attempt to get the lights on?

You have no idea how much this sucked.




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Sounds like a great story lol

 

hahaha i vote sit in the dark. thats the last thing you need your boss to see when he happens to walk in as your waddling out

 

I'd use my handy flashlight app on my phone lol

 

You need light to finish your business???

I like the 'auto' toilets that flush on their own... randomly...

 

wad up a ball of toilet paper and chuck it up in the air....it has worked here...not that I'd know

 

Set your smartphone down, and stop posting on bowhunting.com while on the crapper. Probably won't every have to worry about taking too long again.

 

It's dark. Like can't see your hand in front of your face dark. How will I know when the TP comes back clean?

 

Finger test, and then sniff

 

What he said or do the walk of shame.

 

Can't say I've been in this crappy situation. I do know that I have taken several heaters in the cover of darkness while turkey hunting. It must be the warm weather and a lot of walking. Basically, you just have use your own judgement. I can usually tell on the way out how many wipes it's going to take.

 

You still there?


If not, how did you handle it?

 

LMAH. That is so funny. LOL

I think there should be a way to over ride the sensor like flipping the manual switch twice or press and hold it till it beeps or something. But thats funny as he!!

Use the light from your phone.

 

LOL this has happened to me as well. I acutally got my phone out and used the flash light. I probably sat there for 5 minutes in the complete darkness. I was actually laughing out loud in the bathroom which would've made the situation all the more strange if someone would've walked in!

 

The lights going off is a work place efficiency/productivity thingy. Just think if every employee went into a stall to.... ahhhh... let's say amuse or entertain him/her self. Why just "off hand"you can see the amount of unproductive time being thrown down the drain. You've learned.... next time you'll just do your stall business faster and more efficient. LOL

 

No back at the desk now.

1. I did a preliminary wipe to minimize cross contamination.
2. Pulled up the pants.
3. Opened up the stall door and stepped oustide to turn the lights back on
4. Sat back down to fully finish the deuce and wipe properly.

I was a little quicker on round two.

 

It has happened to me in a public bathroom but someone later walked in.

Back in the day you would flip off the switch on you way out of the BR just to mess with someone

 

Same situation here and I handle it like this. Luckily our stalls are not too big so there isn't much ground to cover during the waddle.

 

Good work, man! You may want to stash a couple of "Wet-Ones" in your desk drawer or wallet for future use! :D

 

It must really be slow to start writing about such things, LOLOL.
It used to be that way at our worek also, I just had set the timers longer, I think they were originally set for about 3 minutes !