Someone's In Here!!
At work, the cleaning lady stops by to restock / tidy up the men's bathroom at least once a day. I suspect it may even be a couple of times a day. Naturally, she tries to find out if anyone is in the bathroom by poking her head in the door and saying something like, "hello?"
So far I have failed to find a response with which I am happy. I've tried the panicked "someone's in here" but that makes me feel like a little bitch. Screaming "it burns" also didn't come off too well. I narrowly escaped the quasi-racist feeling "ocupado" so far. And, although I've experimented with variations of "just a minute" or "almost done," these and all my other attempts always seems to completely chase her away, causing her to have to make a second set of rounds later in the day which makes me feel like I'm somehow increasing her workload.
My new idea is a simple I'm-comfortable-with-myself, "come in." Nothing wrong with that that I can see, other than I think it's a George Carlin bit.
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