Rules of evacuation

More men's room etiquette, this time in the form of a Sims-based machinima animation. It's a little long but has some funny parts.

It reminded me of the time I committed a severe men's room faux pas by speaking to my then-girlfriend's boss while in the john at their office. I had just walked out of a stall and he was washing his lunch dishes at the sink. I was still pretty new to the men's restroom rules, and I knew him, so I figured it was no big deal to say hi. Wrong. He quickly set me straight. He was polite about it, and he knew I was trans, so he probably cut me some slack. But he made sure to mention the fact that men never, *ever* engage in conversation while in the bathroom.

I've since learned this rule isn't totally written in stone, as I've overheard several men's room conversations in the past few years (mostly at colleges or in bars).

Cell phone conversations carried on in public bathrooms are another matter entirely. To me, that seems so much more wrong, for so many reasons.