[alexander_busek]

The first time I heard of a phone in the bathroom was during the Watergate era. The wife of somebody involved would make calls to the Washington Post et al, from the bathroom. Now that it's ubiquitous, it's no longer the status symbol it may have once been before the non-land lines became so prolific.

Martha Mitchell, wife of John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General under President Richard Nixon.

She had a totally ordinary land-line extension telephone - no status symbol - installed in her bathroom.

Regards,

[Grams A]

It amazes me the number of hotels that have phones in the water closet portion of their bathrooms. People don’t seem to realize how well background noises carry over a land line. Going to the bathroom should be a private matter. Goes again to the total lack of manners that most people exhibit now.