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go to the lavatory

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go to the lavatory
Euph. to go into a restroom and use a toilet. Bob requested to leave the room to go to the lavatory. Please stop the car. I have to go to the lavatory.


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I need to go to the lavatory," says a plaintive Six suddenly.
This will prevent you from disturbing your neighbor sleeping if you want to get up and take a walk or go to the lavatory.
For Goffman, all of this behaviour, from a lady's choice of 'afternoon ensembles' (Behaviour in Public Places) to a mental patient choosing to piss on a radiator rather than go to the lavatory (Making Out in a Mental Hospital) is controlled by intention, and any judgment customarily passed on behaviour is at least as worthy of our attention as the 'flagrant violations, and the like'.
 
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