Meetings and Growlers......A Story of Bathroom Humor

Not poker-related at all.

I had a 2 hour meeting yesterday. That sucks more than anything, especially when it's anticipated that you won't be an active participant. I finished my cup of coffee in the first 45 minutes.

By the time it was over, my eyes were floating.

As we were walking out of the conference room, I was talking to a manager for a different group about some of the ideas being passed around at the meeting. We were both walking to the bathroom in full conversation.

We entered the bathroom and I went straight to the urinal when I noticed that he wasn't standing next to me in the other urinal. Don't get me wrong, he was still in deep conversation with me about environment backups and refreshes for QA testing, but he was holding the infamous single-ply toilet bowl cover. He kept talking, asking me questions as I heard him go into the stall. What proceeded was a deep conversation about the latest Oracle 9.2.0.7 patch that was being applied to all the environments inbetween some of the loudest bowel noises a man can possibly produce. He would talk, pause, let loose a growler along with some assorted gas exchanges that had been pent up, and then continued on with the conversation.

I didn't know if I should be disgusted or in hysterics at the noises coming from his stall.......very comical and unbelievably uncomfortable. AND HE WOULDN'T SHUT UP.

I finished my job and went to wash my hands, all the while he's talking to me as if he were standing next to me.

I hurriedly washed and dried my hands and simply said...."I'll be in at my cube if you wanna talk about it some more......."

About 5 minutes later, he was back at my cube, reiterating the "conversations" we had had in the bathroom and in the meeting. He might as well have been speaking in Chinese because all I could think about was the "ass-blowing" situation I just had to endure.

Talk about frigging uncomfortable.

I guess there are people out there that have no shame having deep conversations while slinging mud.

Lyndon B Johnson, our 36th president was one of those people too.......according to wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_Johnson

"........Johnson, while using the White House bathroom, was known to insist that others accompany him and continue to discuss official matters, take dictation, or another convenient pretense. This was one of Johnson's many tactics for asserting psychological power over others."

As I said before, no poker content, just felt like sharing an experience......as uncomfortable as it may be.