2 quick work questions

Look, I know it's been a couple of months since I've worked, and have only started back up last week, but after being here for a week, I've got two questions for those out there...

1. Who the hell answers their phone while on the crapper? Seriously, I was minding my own business washing my hands after doing my business, and all of a sudden I hear a ringtone, that sounds just like mine (maybe he has the same crappy Nokia, too), so I think I'm getting a call. When I realize it isn't me, the guy just starts talking! Dude, you are supposed to be handling business and thinking-not answering the phone. If it was urgent, ask if you can call them right back. Instead, I decided to mess with whomever it was, he kept mentioning that 'it's good', so I in turn decided to continue to wash my hands while loudly talking to myself that 'cleaning your hands after a bathroom break is not only good, it's recommended by your friends', and then pulled the Bruce Almighty, 'It's good, it's gooooo-ooood'. Maybe he didn't appreciate the humor, but I sure did.

2. Why, why, why must people stop you dead in your tracks with, 'Can I ask you a question?' That puts you at a distinct advantage, as they've already done it. Can you say no? Can you speak a foreign language and hope to leave them in a daze (and of course, confused)?

See, these are the types of things I think about when I'm bored and being told I can't send an email until I have a meeting tomorrow, to get guidelines. It's a stinkin' email!! Just a simple following up email, no more, no less. I'm not professing my love, thanking them for their previous business, asking about their kids soccer game, nothing of the sort. A simple follow up to a voicemail. I already smell the day I get peeved for too much red tape and going to meetings.

Oh well, I get paid to read, deal with it!