Can you die from mortification?

tevagirl

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Because if you can and I was this woman I would have died on the spot...

I'm sitting at my desk (I work in a hospital) talking with two nurses and another woman when this lady from another floor comes down to use the bathroom that's right across from my desk.

We're standing there chatting when the fire alarm goes off. The alarm is so loud you can't hear where they are saying the 'fire' is. When it finally stops we hear them saying "CCC bathroom." (CCC = Cancer Care Center = us!)

Just as the alarm stops the lady comes out of the bathroom and over to us to chat. We're joking around with her, asking if she set the bathroom on fire. Meanwhile, all the maintainence men are on their way to our unit with fire extinguishers and the fire department has been called.

As soon as the poor bathroom lady realizes we aren't kidding about the alarm being for the bathroom that she just exited, she turns 6 shades of red and starts saying "Don't tell them it was me!" Here the poor soul did her business in there and decided to cover the smell with some FDS spray which in turn set off the alarm. :eek:

Here come the men, extinguishers in hand. They throw open the bathroom door and start grabbing their noses and groaning. :faint:


I would be looking for a new job in a different state if that had been me! :rotfl2:
 
Must...not...laugh. :rotfl2: :rotfl2: :lmao:
I don't think embarrassment is terminal-if it was, there'd be a lot fewer teens and tweens in the world.
 

:rotfl2:

OMG thanks for the laugh! I would have died from the embarassment!
 
Poor woman.....but, :laughing:

I do hate it when I go to a bathroom that stinks to high heaven and other people that walk in later think it's me. :rolleyes1:

If the firemen used their oxygen, it must have been pretty bad.
 
:rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2: Did you tell them that a male doctor was just in there ;) :rolleyes1::teeth:?
 
No, you cannot die from embarrassment. A (married) guy at work was having a rendezvous with a staff member...in the stairwell after hours....which was caught on the building security camera....which was circulated all over the place by the time the guy got to work the next morning. No, if one could die from embarrassment, he would have. (He [of course!] was a super conservative, straight laced Baptist boy, too!)
 
I don't think so because if one could, this poor man would have. I worked for a company several years ago with wall mounted toilets in the bathrooms. Apparently one gentlemen exceeded the weight limits of the toilet; who knew they had weight limits??:confused3 He was seated doing what he went in there to do, when the toilet crashed to the floor with him on it. It is porcelain so it shattered. He was found on the floor covered in blood and biological waste, as well as water. He required 42 sutures to repair the laceration. I am sure glad I wasn't working that day.
 
LOL!

I met a girl this summer that worked for Microsoft. She was telling us about her experience a couple days prior to the event I met her at. Aparently there was a horrible smell through out the building. She was her boss's office when the smell started to come through. Within minutes they were evacuating. They thought there was a gas leak. They had all kinds of firemen, haz mat employes, etc, on the scene looking for the leak.

They finally found the source. The girl I met had been part of a company event a few weeks before. It involved an egg. Her team won, and she kept the egg. She had it at her desk. It was rotten and exploded on her desk! Because she was talking with the boss at the time, she didnt know. How would you like to be the one that caused an entire microsoft building to be evacuated? LOL
 
No, you cannot die from embarrassment. A (married) guy at work was having a rendezvous with a staff member...in the stairwell after hours....which was caught on the building security camera....which was circulated all over the place by the time the guy got to work the next morning. No, if one could die from embarrassment, he would have. (He [of course!] was a super conservative, straight laced Baptist boy, too!)

If the embarassment doesn't kill him, his wife will!
 
LOL!

I met a girl this summer that worked for Microsoft. She was telling us about her experience a couple days prior to the event I met her at. Aparently there was a horrible smell through out the building. She was her boss's office when the smell started to come through. Within minutes they were evacuating. They thought there was a gas leak. They had all kinds of firemen, haz mat employes, etc, on the scene looking for the leak.

They finally found the source. The girl I met had been part of a company event a few weeks before. It involved an egg. Her team won, and she kept the egg. She had it at her desk. It was rotten and exploded on her desk! Because she was talking with the boss at the time, she didnt know. How would you like to be the one that caused an entire microsoft building to be evacuated? LOL
That is worse than what happened to me - all because of 2 oranges I'd left in my desk over Christmas. There was a really weird odor in my office - I had several people come in and confirm it. We were all ready to call maintenance when I discovered the moldy oranges.

This was at EDS in Plano outside of Dallas - the security guards monitored the hallways with Uzis so I am so glad they did not have to mount an assault on my office.
 
ROTFL!!!

But why do people feel the need to go to another floor to use someone else's bathroom for such occasions? :lmao:


Also, yes, wall-mounted toilets have a weight limit of 300 pounds. (or ours do anyway). For people over that, we have to bring in a portapotty. We are now remodeling some rooms to have "expanded capacity" floor-mounted toilets. Funny, but also sad.
 


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