Americans still have some way to go to catch the Germans, but apparently nearly 4 out of 10 people think it's okay to talk on a cell phone in the bathroom. While that may seem like a lot, it's actually down from 62% in 2003, the last time the company did this survey.

This makes me want to bludgeon 4 out of 10 people with their cell phones until either a) they are incapable of speech, b) their phone is broken or c) they understand civility.

And, yeah, I understand that beating someone with a blunt object doesn't fall into the canonical definition of "civil", but they started it by forcing me to acknowledge their existence while in the bathroom -- the one time I prefer to believe that I am alone in the entire universe.