A quick poll.
I have a colleague who, from time to time, will take his cup of coffee to the toilet with him. I assume to drink it, but it is also quite possible that there is some sort of sexual perversion out there that requires a cup full of hot liquid. I just do not know about it, yet (unfortunately, as I really hate to think people are having some sort of fun that I do not yet know about).
He doesn’t come out looking particularly disheveled or post-coital, but if I had just had a cheeky tug in the toilets I would make an effort to look normal when I came out as well.
I said IF!
So, my question to you is this. Does this strike you as the behaviour of a complete freak? Or is this completely normal, and I am the strange one for insisting on drinking my coffee at my desk and saving the cheeky tugs for the privacy of my own home or in the supermarket car park?
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Shambo's revenge · August 17, 2007 at 8:06 am
Rubbing the bishop at work must class as white collar fraud surely, maybe the hot drink is in lieu of candle wax?
Sam Cullum · August 17, 2007 at 8:22 am
Perhaps he wants some froth on his coffee. No, definately not normal, but then neither is buying coffee at a service station and expecting a cup holder.
Oli · August 17, 2007 at 8:45 am
Ahh so thats where the free creame cheese came from on my last visit to tescos
Moaka Cheeno · August 17, 2007 at 8:49 am
Coffee is a laxative. Also, a dirty, slutty temptress that wants it bad in the bogs. Oh yes. Hot, brown, rich and drunk, like Halle Berry.
Peach · August 17, 2007 at 9:02 am
maybe it helps him poo
Lolita · August 17, 2007 at 9:12 am
Perhaps he’s worried about date rape? Or it might be the liquid equivalent of a magazine – something to ‘do’ on the toilet?
I’m probably the only one imagining this guy squatting over the mug and dunkin’ his (do)nuts as part of some kind of masochistic ritual.
AFC 30K · August 17, 2007 at 9:14 am
I’ve never taken a cup of coffee to the WC. Why would you.
Although, when I come to think of it, I have in a manner of speaking. I used to drink coffe in my office which was on a sewage treatment works…
The joys of Civil Engineering!
Mr H · August 17, 2007 at 10:13 am
I’m thinking some kind of STD or associated itch that requires his manly bits to be coated in caffeine.
Angelalala · August 17, 2007 at 10:21 am
I’m thinking ewww! Bacteria!
Eliza · August 17, 2007 at 10:35 am
definately to help him poo. works every time.
Dominic · August 17, 2007 at 10:54 am
There was that episode of Green Wing where they had coffee enemas…
Thomas R · August 17, 2007 at 10:57 am
Mega freak – no question. There’s a whole lot of hand shake greating here in France, so if he were in this office I’d have a bottle of dettol handy for emergency use.
Sexual peversions, OK, it’s the poor toilet hygiene that would worry me.
Thomas R · August 17, 2007 at 10:59 am
That should, of course, read “hand shake greeting”. I don’t know what “hand shake greating” is as it hasn’t been invented yet.
ninja chinchilla · August 17, 2007 at 11:05 am
Definitely a freak. Unhygenic or what?
KT · August 17, 2007 at 11:44 am
Shop-bought cardboard cup or mug from the office cupboard? If it’s a mug, I hope he washes it thoroughly whether it’s been used for some kind of sexual perversion or just covered in bacteria! It’s yuck and he’s a freak either way.
Kris · August 17, 2007 at 11:58 am
When you find out, let me know — I frequently have men from our building returning my colleague’s coffee mug from the men’s room where he keeps leaving it. . . .
Sheppitsgal · August 17, 2007 at 12:42 pm
As mentioned in yesterdays comments, coffee makes you poo.
Also, I am slightly concerned about the continuing coffee-related subjects.
Are you livid or addicted?
Does the coffee stench in your car cause you to notice everything coffee-related?
Or, are have you just purchased shares in Typhoo and are trying to make coffee look bad?
sooz · August 17, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Surely if the coffee was needed to make him poo whilst he’s there then he almost didn’t need to go in the first place then did he?
I was on the ‘unhygienic’ thread too – yuk!
Perhaps he has a secret stash of dry cake hidden there somewhere and he can’t get it down without a cuppa?
gnarlyswine · August 17, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Can you stop talking about coffee. Ive just given up caffiene because inadvertently me and the spouse had managed to get addicted to the extent where we were getting withdrawl symptoms at the weekend without even realising why. I stopped smoking after 15 years and this is worse.
Probably because its hidden in all sorts of stuff here in north america – crackers and grapefruit juice for fecks sake.
The burns on my John Thomas are healing up nicely though.
xl · August 17, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Freaky? Yes. Yuck, whether food/drink or Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) action in the toilet. And it probably would not be advisable to shake hands with him either.
Katy Newton · August 17, 2007 at 2:37 pm
I have NEVER taken a cup of coffee to the loo with me. The loo is no place for hot beverages.
That is my final word on this issue.
Sewmouse · August 17, 2007 at 5:05 pm
So many factors come into play here that without more input it is impossible to come up with a definitive answer.
Is the cup FULL of HOT, FRESH coffee when he takes it in with him? Weird.
Is the cup FULL with nasty old cold coffee? Not weird – he’s just dumping it.
Is the cup partly-full of Hot, Fresh coffee? Weird.
Is the cup partly-full of nasty cold coffee? See FULL of NASTY COLD above.
Is the cup almost empty of coffee? Perhaps he figures to get in that last gulp, then rinse/wash/wipe it with the paper towels from the sink? Not weird.
See?
Now, if he is taking a full cup of fresh, hot coffee and heading in for a nice sit-down and read… Perhaps you should consider counselling for him.
melanie · August 17, 2007 at 5:22 pm
coffee in the toilet. I have no opinion. Thankfully I don’t have to watch him either.
its a free country, but “cheeky pulling” at work? um… NO. I can’t think of a more un-romantic spot for it.
TheShrink · August 17, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Perhaps he wants some froth on his coffee.
Ewwwww! Sam, that’s is just so wrong.
Anyways why not take it in to the cubicle? Seems that some folk can’t drink it safely in the community . . .
. . . but it looks like freakishness to me.
Chopski · August 17, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Maybe the coffee isn’t his and its yours and he needs to wash his balls?!
Cat · August 17, 2007 at 8:40 pm
A guy at my last office was given a talking to by the manager for taking the paper from reception with him while he went for his morning dump…
TheBoy · August 17, 2007 at 9:07 pm
Kitchens and dining rooms (and occasionally living rooms and bed rooms) are for food. Toilets are for the result of food. That is all.
Gert · August 18, 2007 at 7:54 pm
I have been known to take a gin and bitter lemon into the toilets of venues. Actually, sometimes I just take in the bitter lemon, purchased at the bar, and then pour in the gin, carefully contained in a hip flask.
But I have never had a wank at work. That I think makes me a tiny minority
Cliff · August 19, 2007 at 12:46 am
Yeah, rotten. Germs and hot things go nasty.
Chloé · August 19, 2007 at 2:37 am
My roommate takes the phone in the toilets. Not only can’t I figure out how people can really accept to be on the receiving end from someone phoning from the toilets, but I am also slightly worried when she does it with the wireless set for the land line.
I mean, I’m using this set at times…
clarissa · August 19, 2007 at 8:50 am
I agree with Katy. It’s just too odd to think you’re putting something in while you’re pushing something out.
The IT Leadership Deal · August 22, 2007 at 9:06 am
“A Curious Dream” part three of five…
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luna · August 23, 2007 at 7:59 am
If he’s taking the paper as well he’s just maximizing his use of downtime.Very sensible.
This guy’s a multitasker.