Hi this is Ceema, welcome back to Skillopedia the place to learn skills for the real world.
In today's session we're gonna deal with a very interesting topic about bathroom etiquette.
Do you know the bathroom is the least talked about place? Because what you do in there
is your personal business, no one needs to know about it. But do you know that there
are certain rules or certain behaviour you need to follow when you are in the bathroom?
And you need to follow it even though no one is watching. So let's see what you need to
keep in mind when you are in the bathroom.
The first thing that you need to keep in mind is to ditch your cell phone. You don't want
your cell phone in the bathroom. Now let me tell you that it is more polite to the person
on the other end of the line if they do not get to hear some loud echoing flushing noises
while they were talking to you. In fact even other people who are visiting the same bathroom
as you are do not really need to hear your conversation while you are on the cell phone.
And let me tell you a lot of people accidentally drop their phone in the commode that is something
you can never forgive yourself for. And that is something that your insurance company won't
probably cover. So the thumb rule is to make sure you save your phone calls for a later
time. Don't use your cell phones in the bathroom.
The second important rule to follow when you are in the bathroom is to clean up after yourself.
Well this is something that you have been taught as a child, almost every day, right?
But surprisingly a lot of people don't follow it. So whether you're at home, whether you
are a house guest at somebody else's home or whether you are at work, treat everyone
bathroom as if it were a bathroom in your own house, which means that if you've splashed
water all over the sink, take a face tissue and wipe it away. If you've used a seat cover,
ensure that the seat cover is also flushed away. In other words you've gotta ensure that
whatever you've done in there should be something that nobody else needs to know. Okay so you've
gotta wipe away every lingering evidence of whatever it is that you may have done while
you were in the bathroom. In many cases, if you are a house guest, you could also use
a bathroom fan. So in short you've gotta make sure you always clean up after yourself because
that is the right thing to do.
The next thing you need to keep in mind is to make spare toilet rolls or toilet paper
available. Sometimes we end up using the last of the toilet roll, right? If you ever happen
to do that, ensure that you always make spare rolls available for the next person who is
entering in the bathroom. If you can't do that, ensure that you contact an administration
employee about that. If you can't do even that, be polite enough to at least tell the
next person who is heading into the stall. Tell him that there is no paper roll or no
toilet roll available, that way he will be warned well in advance. So always make sure
that toilet rolls are available.
The fourth point to follow as far as bathroom etiquette is concerned is to refrain or avoid
having a long conversation. Some people think that the bathroom is a great place to have
long, amazing conversations. Well, you can't be more wrong about that because the bathroom
is a place where you only go to do your business, your private business, right? So when you
meet a friend in the bathroom, stop talking about your parents, your children, your dog
and such other things that take up a lot of each other's time. A lot of people are probably
in there just for a short bathroom break, right? So refrain from having lengthy, long
conversations with people. Try to limit your conversations to a friendly greeting, may
be a hello or a good morning or a good afternoon or how are you doing, should be enough. Okay
so we are not gonna have lengthy conversations in the bathroom.
The next thing you need to know is always give the inside scoop to someone who is visiting
your house as a guest and who is visiting your bathroom for probably the first time.
Now imagine this, what if you were going to someone's bathroom and you turned on the tap
and suddenly a blast of cold water hit you in the face from the shower. Now that's not
a very pleasing thing is it? Well that is why you need to give your house guests the
inside scoop or let them know about how to operate your bathroom devices. It could be
the geyser, the shower or the taps or the faucets because a lot of people like myself
even, do not know how to operate bathroom devices properly. That will save yourself,
your house guest a lot of irritation and a lot of embarrassment. So don't forget to give
your house guests the inside scoop about your bathroom.
Another very important thing you need to know is that, you must never use bath towels when
you are in the bathroom. Okay what does that mean? So when you've finished with your business,
okay, whatever it is that you went to do in the bathroom, ensure that you use only a hand
towel after you've finished, you know urinating or taking a dump. If there is no hand towel
available, you might need to ask for it from a house guest, whose house you are entering
into. If you don't find a hand towel and you can't you know get it from a guest, go to
the kitchen and use a paper towel, okay. But don't ever use bath towels of your guests
because they are not what you need to use after visiting the bathroom. You always use
hand towels.
The next thumb rule when you are in the bathroom that you need to know about is that you should
not squat. No squatting is the rule you've gotta follow. Do you know there are some people
who squat on a toilet seat? You have no reason to be squatting on a toilet seat unless you
are in a squat toilet of course. Do you know why? Because if you accidentally fall, you
could break a hip. In fact a lot of times, even the commode or the toilet seat may just
break if you are squatting because the toilet seat cannot support your weight when you are
squatting. So please, please refrain from squatting because that is very bad bathroom etiquette.
The last point and the eighth point of making sure you follow bathroom etiquette is to look
or knock before you enter. Now let me tell you that not all bathroom locks secure very
properly. Okay which means that, sometimes if you know really wanna pee very bad, which
some of us always wanna do, we have the temptation of just pushing in quickly into the door,
right? But that's not the way you do it because if the door is not secured properly, it’s
gonna be a little embarrassing for you and the person who is the bathroom. So therefore
especially when you are in a public toilet or a communal stall, always ensure that you
look down for some feet or you could just tap the door a little bit, knock it a little
bit to ensure that no one is in there, that will save you a lot of embarrassment.
Well that's it from me on this session of bathroom etiquette. I hope you found it interesting
and informative and I hope you get to use it every day when you visit the bathroom.
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