Ugh yes we have some of those at my work and sometimes I fake going and just leave and come back so I can pee in peace. Peece.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
I’ve known many occasions where guys would not only have conversations in the public toilets, but even have conversations on their mobile. Yep, they’re on THEIR PHONE. IN THE TOILETS.
Dude….nobody wants to be on the other end of a conversation knowing that the person they’re talking to is doing THAT. >_<;;
Mr. Random
As one of those idiots. They wouldn’t stop calling. It was the 4th time that day.
And I didn’t SAY I was on the toilet.
Jimi
But if they *don’t* know that…
Jimi
I mean, I’ll put it this way: I very much do not care if you talk to me while on the toilet without ever letting me know you’re on the toilet. I can’t care about something I don’t know.
Stand on the toilet in the next stall, stretch and grab the divider, then either dangle or stand on tiptoes.
Leo
She’s probably standing on the toilet tank
Deanatay
Probably standing on the TP dispenser.
GJT
I’ve seen plenty of stall walls that are at about my standing chin height without stretching, or standing on anything. Now, I’m tall (6’5), but the average toilet would add nearly a foot and a half so standing on the seat would get anyone who is at least in the 5′ range to easily be able to look over those stalls.
There was enough wiggle room in what she said that I could have interpreted it also as her caring a bit about Walky in the breakup; it didn’t come off so cut and dry to me, but it still seemed unlikely her opinion of Walky improved.
I hated using the washrooms in elementary school, because girls would regularly climb over/under the stall walls just to mess with people or for other bizarre kid-reasons. If I heard someone coming in while I was there, I’d hide and wait for them to leave before I’d even come out of the stall :/
“don’t freak out” is exactly what you say to someone who presumably ran across a good part of campus and was somehow able to find you in a specific bathroom stall. 😛
I get the sense Joyce’s family really never taught her these boundaries, to be honest.
Her priorities, though, are a bit troubling. She’s mad that Dorothy didn’t immediately go to clue Joyce in on her problems—a bit controlling, isn’t it?
There is that definitely, like does Joyce think that she (Joyce) is the most important thing in Dorothy’s life?
But really, to me, watching someone in the toilet is just…wrong and shouldn’t need explaining as to why its private and as for boundaries I don’t buy it unless the toilet door at the Brown household was never closed
I dunno its just really creepy to me
Inahc
oh god, I just remembered another shitty (ha) toilet story: one time I got sent off to essentially babysit some cousins for the summer, and their bathroom had two doors – one opening onto the kitchen, and the other onto the hallway iirc. I can’t remember whether the locks were broken or nonexistent or I just forgot about them, but I clearly remember sitting on the toilet trying not to cry as my cousins chased each other in circles through the bathroom >.<
TemporalShrew
I mean, she clearly hasn’t registered what she’s doing as… what she’s doing, since she didn’t even begin to interpret Dorothy’s discomfort as being about that. It’s less that she’s “watching her on the toilet,” and more that she’s single-minded and hard-headed to a fault.
thejeff
Well of course the boys weren’t allowed to intrude on her (or her on them), but I’ll bet Carol would just barge in as needed.
timemonkey
Some families just have less issues when it comes to bathroom use. If you have a big family and only one bathroom then walking in while someone is using the toilet just becomes normal.
Sunny
It occurs to me that the toilet door in the Brown household may have always been, at the very least, unlocked. Given their fundamental christian beliefs, the parents were probably strongly trying to discourage their children from exploring their genitals in any way more than necessary.
A locked bathroom door, when the pants are already down, is definitely not DIScouraging.
thejeff
OTOH, I can’t see them being okay with the boys walking in Joyce or vice versa.
Rabid Rabbit
We happen to know that Joyce got her own bathroom (http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/hair/), explaining her difficult relationship with shared ones, but I wouldn’t count on it having had a lock. Just her brothers (and sister) being very firmly warned what would happen to them if they went inside.
worse than that, I expect her family taught her that these things (which would never have been called boundaries by them) are selfish and unfair and such. they’ve raised her to be actively anti-boundaries. it’s a shitty culture – and yes, it is controlling too.
BBCC
Boundaries are a way for the devil to infiltrate those you care about. After all, if they have privacy, how can you be sure they’re not sinning? And if you don’t know if they’re sinning, you can’t keep them out of hell.
thejeff
And if you’re not sinning, why do you want privacy? That’s suspicious.
Brainstorm
Just that one line is enough to give me flashbacks to childhood. Ugh…
I don’t think it might stem from her family’s (lack of) teaching her boundaries alone. It might also be that with Becky (so far as we know maybe only close female friend prior to college) as a childhood friend they established talking in and over the stall (maybe even like that) as okay to do.
Maybe they did teach her boundaries (I doubt she’d do that with her mother), but she just pools “best friends”-behaviour in her head and thus the result is not individualising want for personal space/behaviour.
(Like, I usually greet my very good friends with hugs, but one of them doesn’t like hugs and isn’t that keen about touching other people anyway, so she of course doesn’t get a hug – only on special occasions, when wanted).
But yeah, she definitely needs to change that, no matter the cause…
This is why I use the public restrooms instead of the staff restrooms at work. In the staff restrooms, I run the risk of having to make small talk with a co-worker while I’m peeing, and I’m not good at small talk even under the best of circumstances.
157 thoughts on “Amicable”
Ana Chronistic
“also, thanks to you, pooping”
…holy FUCK I hate people who talk in the bathroom
kitty
agree
miis
Ugh yes we have some of those at my work and sometimes I fake going and just leave and come back so I can pee in peace. Peece.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
I’ve known many occasions where guys would not only have conversations in the public toilets, but even have conversations on their mobile. Yep, they’re on THEIR PHONE. IN THE TOILETS.
Dude….nobody wants to be on the other end of a conversation knowing that the person they’re talking to is doing THAT. >_<;;
Mr. Random
As one of those idiots. They wouldn’t stop calling. It was the 4th time that day.
And I didn’t SAY I was on the toilet.
Jimi
But if they *don’t* know that…
Jimi
I mean, I’ll put it this way: I very much do not care if you talk to me while on the toilet without ever letting me know you’re on the toilet. I can’t care about something I don’t know.
Plasma Mongoose
People who eagerly watch your pee or poop are even worst.
Zee
…that’s a thing? Those people exist?
Benet
My child does, does that count?
I miss peaceful toilet trips.
Doctor_Who
Basically Joyce.
StClair
so I’m not the only one. good.
DarkoNeko
What.
butts
joyce leave
please joyce
leave
shadowcell
“so would this be a bad time to mention how urine in big tro–”
“PEEING. NOW.”
AnvilPro
Joyce is pissed off, Dorothy is pi- I don’t want to finish that
Stu
I’ll do it for you.
Joyce is pissed. And pissing.
Some1
I sure as hell hope not, considering the angle its probably going everywhere!
BKC
Walky’s not the only one getting dumped right now.
…I’ll see myself out.
Zathras10
Abnd leave the door open.
CleverTrousers
*somewhat tasteless masturbation joke rooted in the original lolcat and, ‘lol, Joyce loves Dorothy’*
tyranidswarm
Joyce: “That’s okay I can wait. I’ll just be up here,”
Zathras10
Which, by the way, how? I mean, Joyce is a relatively tiny person, right? I’m picturing some sort of parkour move and strong forearms.
Kamino Neko
Stand on the toilet in the next stall, stretch and grab the divider, then either dangle or stand on tiptoes.
Leo
She’s probably standing on the toilet tank
Deanatay
Probably standing on the TP dispenser.
GJT
I’ve seen plenty of stall walls that are at about my standing chin height without stretching, or standing on anything. Now, I’m tall (6’5), but the average toilet would add nearly a foot and a half so standing on the seat would get anyone who is at least in the 5′ range to easily be able to look over those stalls.
Kamino Neko
You’re forgetting the horizontal distance she also needs to cover.
Dark
For some reason all I can imagine is that there is a person in the next stall and she’s just standing on them.
The only reason they haven’t spoken up is because they’re in a stunned silence.
Knuf Wons
Bloodrose!?! Is that you??
Chronos
I *knew* that was the reason Joyce was mad.
timemonkey
It’s almost as if she said as such a couple strips ago.
Chronos
There was enough wiggle room in what she said that I could have interpreted it also as her caring a bit about Walky in the breakup; it didn’t come off so cut and dry to me, but it still seemed unlikely her opinion of Walky improved.
DailyBrad
I hate when people talk to me when I am peeing. Peeing does not take long, wait a damn moment.
Puckish Rogue
Talking is one thing but actively watching is quite another
Inahc
I hated using the washrooms in elementary school, because girls would regularly climb over/under the stall walls just to mess with people or for other bizarre kid-reasons. If I heard someone coming in while I was there, I’d hide and wait for them to leave before I’d even come out of the stall :/
Stephen Bierce
*Roxette continues, although it’s hard to hear because of the acoustics of the tiled washroom*
Lingo
It must have been love, but OOOOOVER NOW!
Deanatay
It’s where the water floooowwws…
Annonymouse
“singing in the rain.” ?
Chris Phoenix
Purple rain, purple rain…
Passchendaele
“don’t freak out” is exactly what you say to someone who presumably ran across a good part of campus and was somehow able to find you in a specific bathroom stall. 😛
Foxhack
EVACUATE THE BUILDING, JOYCE
NO NOT LIKE THAT
Van Jealous
“Move on now peephole…..nothing to pee here!”
Puckish Rogue
I like Joyce and all and her growth is good to see but this is getting close to friendship breaking for me
GoblinScribe
I get the sense Joyce’s family really never taught her these boundaries, to be honest.
Her priorities, though, are a bit troubling. She’s mad that Dorothy didn’t immediately go to clue Joyce in on her problems—a bit controlling, isn’t it?
Puckish Rogue
There is that definitely, like does Joyce think that she (Joyce) is the most important thing in Dorothy’s life?
But really, to me, watching someone in the toilet is just…wrong and shouldn’t need explaining as to why its private and as for boundaries I don’t buy it unless the toilet door at the Brown household was never closed
I dunno its just really creepy to me
Inahc
oh god, I just remembered another shitty (ha) toilet story: one time I got sent off to essentially babysit some cousins for the summer, and their bathroom had two doors – one opening onto the kitchen, and the other onto the hallway iirc. I can’t remember whether the locks were broken or nonexistent or I just forgot about them, but I clearly remember sitting on the toilet trying not to cry as my cousins chased each other in circles through the bathroom >.<
TemporalShrew
I mean, she clearly hasn’t registered what she’s doing as… what she’s doing, since she didn’t even begin to interpret Dorothy’s discomfort as being about that. It’s less that she’s “watching her on the toilet,” and more that she’s single-minded and hard-headed to a fault.
thejeff
Well of course the boys weren’t allowed to intrude on her (or her on them), but I’ll bet Carol would just barge in as needed.
timemonkey
Some families just have less issues when it comes to bathroom use. If you have a big family and only one bathroom then walking in while someone is using the toilet just becomes normal.
Sunny
It occurs to me that the toilet door in the Brown household may have always been, at the very least, unlocked. Given their fundamental christian beliefs, the parents were probably strongly trying to discourage their children from exploring their genitals in any way more than necessary.
A locked bathroom door, when the pants are already down, is definitely not DIScouraging.
thejeff
OTOH, I can’t see them being okay with the boys walking in Joyce or vice versa.
Rabid Rabbit
We happen to know that Joyce got her own bathroom (http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/hair/), explaining her difficult relationship with shared ones, but I wouldn’t count on it having had a lock. Just her brothers (and sister) being very firmly warned what would happen to them if they went inside.
Inahc
worse than that, I expect her family taught her that these things (which would never have been called boundaries by them) are selfish and unfair and such. they’ve raised her to be actively anti-boundaries. it’s a shitty culture – and yes, it is controlling too.
BBCC
Boundaries are a way for the devil to infiltrate those you care about. After all, if they have privacy, how can you be sure they’re not sinning? And if you don’t know if they’re sinning, you can’t keep them out of hell.
thejeff
And if you’re not sinning, why do you want privacy? That’s suspicious.
Brainstorm
Just that one line is enough to give me flashbacks to childhood. Ugh…
Coma
I don’t think it might stem from her family’s (lack of) teaching her boundaries alone. It might also be that with Becky (so far as we know maybe only close female friend prior to college) as a childhood friend they established talking in and over the stall (maybe even like that) as okay to do.
Maybe they did teach her boundaries (I doubt she’d do that with her mother), but she just pools “best friends”-behaviour in her head and thus the result is not individualising want for personal space/behaviour.
(Like, I usually greet my very good friends with hugs, but one of them doesn’t like hugs and isn’t that keen about touching other people anyway, so she of course doesn’t get a hug – only on special occasions, when wanted).
But yeah, she definitely needs to change that, no matter the cause…
StClair
Anyone else thinking of Real Genius right now?
(and no, not the pyramid and little pickles dream.)
StClair
“Are you peeing?”
“Uh, I can’t start.”
“Because I’m here?”
“I think so.”
“Weird. Well, I have to go.”
“Me too.”
thejeff
Someone linked that up above. I love Jordan.
Inahc
well, I’m glad dorothy’s getting angry. maybe she’ll say something that actually breaks through Joyce’s boundary-obliviousness. :/
TheKelliestKelly
It just occurred to me that Joyce must standing on a toilet in the next stall over.
Also, I hope Jeph Jacques improves this Dororthy-Joyce bathroom comic like he did the last one
TheKelliestKelly
Were new avatars added? I’ve been Sydney Yus for awhile but now I’m Rachel. I’m, maybe I used the wrong email
Pablo360
That’s probably it, Cerberus has been gone for months but she returned and is still (I still can hardly believe this is a coincidence) Carla.
Lingo
It seems like a toilet wouldn’t be high enough. She may be standing on a sink!
Deanatay
Toilet paper dispenser. I’m waiting for it to give under her weight.
Keulen
Stuff like this is why I don’t like public restrooms. I don’t want to talk with someone when I’m peeing or pooping.
Marsh Maryrose
This is why I use the public restrooms instead of the staff restrooms at work. In the staff restrooms, I run the risk of having to make small talk with a co-worker while I’m peeing, and I’m not good at small talk even under the best of circumstances.
Marsh Maryrose