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October 04, 2008 |
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Take Care!
FOUND by Casey
in Columbia, South Carolina
I found this stuck to the door of the women's restroom during my first week at a new job... made me wonder what I had gotten myself into.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
In other words: Don't Reach for the Sky!
I'm glad my office left the toilets in the bathrooms and didn't distribute them out among the cubicles. I guess the upside with that would be we could simultaneously accomplish both meanings of "prairie dogging".
I might be the youngest person on this site, but all I have to say about this one is:
way to invade some privacy!
So, how *does* one go to the bathroom if one knows one is being watched? Care to enlighten, Casey in Columbia?
This reminds me of a year in my misspent youth when I worked in a local archive containing documents from the 17th century on. I was unaware the bathrooms were monitored until the day when, climbing the stairs to the reading room, I was met by a flustered archive official coming down to tell me under his breath that my skirt was tucked in my panties in the back. How could he know, if not for hidden cameras?
Said archive underwent a major rehaul and reshuffle just after I stopped working there. Whether hidden cameras are still needed, I have no idea. But the idea is disturbing.
@basil, the trick in my misspent youth in the world of television was -- if you have a female guest on your TV show who is wired up with a lapel microphone going to a wirelss thingy strapped to her waist, you leave it switched on when she goes to the loo (in our case it was a rather well-known lady orchestral conductor) and broadcast the 'sound effects' over the PA system in the studio for all to hear and enjoy. Very mean. very funny.
When I found out our place had TV monitors in the men's room, I walked in to see the union rep, who'd confirmed it, asking me if I felt I had anything to hide. I told him I didn't & took a whiz in his desk to prove it.
*lol* At first I thought it said "Take care! There are GAMERS in all the toilet cubicles in this building."
Farmer, you are my hero for tonight. I could not have said it better myself.
So take care- no masturbating on break.. unless you WANT it to go up on Youtube...
(Farmer, you so totally ROCK.)
There's something about the style of handwriting that makes me think this was written by someone from the U.K.
And what's with the period after the 'A' in the signature. Is the person's name Arthur Friend? Annabel Friend?
Weird.
it looks like it says .."this budding"
also, look at the transition from t to o in toilet. Interesting.
It looks like whoever wrote the noted was trying to "disguise" her handwriting.
is it really "toilet cubicles"? i always thought it was "bathroom stalls."
@Night in gale; nice comment, gave me a good laugh.
@baby basil; maybe that archive official was super man...
(as in, has "x-ray vision")
what exactly qualifies as "taking care" in a bathroom stall with hidden cameras?
Take care; turn the lights out and go in the dark?
Take care; and go with dignity?
Take care; to try to be entertaining, because you're on very candid camera?
Take care: and use the bathroom in the starbucks down the street instead?
At my school, there are cameras in the hallway OUTSIDE the restrooms, but my understanding is that it is illegal to put cameras inside ANY restroom. So Finder Casey, your company may be breaking the law. May want to look into that. My husband used to sell security systems, and he says it is illegal. The principal at my school says it is illegal, too.
@ Teacher: I agree it's illegal to put cameras in restrooms, but I'm trying to imagine taking the company to court on this.
Lawyer- "Your honor, I present Exhibit A"
(hands yellow sticky note to judge)
(Judge reads note aloud)
(collective gasp throughout courtroom)
Lawyer- "I rest my case."
Um, so, A. Friend, thanks for letting me know. Now every time I pee, shit, snort coke, shoot up, or doing my nails, I will make sure I am smiling.
Take care and smile for the camera (hope you won't end up on YouTube)
I'm with Teacher: Illegal to have cameras in the stalls. I think A. Friend wants the receiver to be a bit paranoid. Sounds like a practical joke to me.
NOT cool...CASEY; Talk to the Labour Board or whomever is in charge...it's illegal to put spy cams in ANY washroom/bathroom.
I'd film it,(the spy cams) then take it to the authorities.
FARMER- Ahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
@ Fooch: Doing your nails, huh? You gotta smile big for that...
@Jonathan: why prank just the femmes suchlike? You could get some great pissshivers from the lads, specially if they were nervy.
Cameras in the toilets. Rifle games for seven-year-olds. What a drag.
Creep-Factor of 12.
WHY in the hell would any company not only have the RIGHT to do that - but NEED to do that? The restrooms should be private.
well, I guess the next time I have sex in a bathroom stall, I'll be sure to wear a pretty bra & smile for camera.
I don't usually think about what people might be doing in toilet cubicles. After reading these comments I have some new vivid mental images that did not exist for me before. Ew.
Me too, hilary, I thought they were called "bathroom stalls." But "toilet cubicle" is so much more fun to say! I'm going to call them that from now on.
Maybe this person left this note for their replacement, perhaps the note writer was bitter and thought perhaps to plant a seed of paranoia in the replacement.
Whenever I use public bathrooms, I look around to see where somebody might be able to hide a camera.
I know how this feels...where I work the owner says she watches me at the front desk from the surveillance cameras she has all over the place. She likes to "watch" from hone to see what's going on when she isn't there.
It's freaky...I've had to stop picking my nose and wiping it under the counter...NOT! I stand there in front of the camera and pick my nose and put it on the lens. I think the boogies give it that "film noir" atmosphere...sort of like a 1920's Lina Vertmuller German cabaret look.
BTW...that should be "home" and not "hone"...she sits at home and watches me. Creepy.
I haven't seen one in the toilet yet but if I do I'll be sure to put that on the lens too.
@Karen; you could mail her a red mouse--anonymously of course.
Think about it.
The camera is not just in the cubical, it's in the bowl! haha, what viewing that would make
please do not let this degrade into the tomfoolery and comments from the find concerning the cat peeing in the laundry basket. I will be seriously hurting from laughter. That day everybody at home thought i lost my mind.
And, if they had cameras in the bathroom cubicles what about the parking garage? all types of misdeeds can occur there too.
Calm down everyone! The note doesn't say "video cameras". I think the note is alerting the finder that there are still cameras available for toilet cubicle denizens to take personal photos of themselves, should they want to. The cameras spit out a strip of 4 little photos that could fit in your wallet. You see these stalls at shopping malls and ... ... Wait! What was that? Those AREN'T toilets?? Whoa, have I ever been making a mistake. Sorry folks.
Librarian, you have made my day! Thanks for making me laugh the hardest today.
Librarian--I actually saw a woman drop trou in public, underneath the water fountains, next to the photobooth at a local mall about 20 years ago. It was around Christmas and there was a very long line for the ladies room. The absolute kicker was that she leaned, not with the palm of her hand against the wall, but with her back against the wall. She didn't moon anyone, but chose instead to show her goodies to at least two hundred people. She was escorted out. I have no idea if she was charged with anything. Of course the mall has been remodeled several times since then, but I always look toward that place to see what kinda crazy could be going on.
Librarian, that's funny!
The fact that this was signed A. Friend immediately made me think of the book "Flatland" by Edwin Abbott and the fact that when it was originally published the author was listed as:
A.Square. Literature geek that I am.
another bathroom find - also having to do with performance anxiety.
although, wouldn't you be, sort of, sticking it to the man every time you pee onto the camera that's in the toilet?
yay for secret rebellion!