Reading on Toilet?

[lyzziesmom]

Oh, and run the water while peeing so no one hears you. Well, most ladies do so, guys just go like a horse and could care less who hears them (or smells them!)

Seriously? Run the water? Do you really think most ladies do this? Heck most of the time I don't even close the door!

I'm talking of course about when it's just me & the kids at home - not if there are any visitors or while at someone else's house or in public.

 

[tar heel]

I don't know any "ladies" who run the water so no one can hear them pee -- that has to be among the craziest things I've read on the DIS, and I've read some crazy things. If my family started doing that, they would hear about it from me -- no way are we wasting water like that.

I got a magazine rack in my powder room, too -- that's where I put all the new ones!

 

[jjenniboo]

I don't know about the electronics but I know alot of people who keep books and magazines in the bathroom. I thought it was pretty normal.

 

[FSUGrad97]

I'm going out on a limb here, but if you are monitoring your family members' bathroom habits to this extent, you have way too much time on your hands and should probably find a hobby.

Just sayin'...

 

[aprilgail2]

If anyone wants to read in the bathroom that is fine I guess (though I don't know why in the world anyone would want to spend a minute more than needed in there!) but no way in heck do I want that reading material back, toss it in the trashcan in the bathroom on your way out!! I can't recall a time where I spent more than 2 minutes on the toilet so reading is not necessary!!

 

[luvthatduke]

Well, DH & I are are readers, too.
And believe me, being a mommy makes
my time in there well-used, it's the only
place I can read a book or magazine!

I can't help but say that with all the courtesy flushing
and pee-masking running water, what in the world
are your water and sewer bills like?
I honestly don't think we could afford to do all that every time!

eta: I just remembered, in defense of the OP,
that in Japan ladies continually flush until they've done their business.
It got to be so costly, tho, for the company restrooms
and government restrooms, that they all started installing
sound machines in every stall - no kidding - the ladies
press a button on the machine as often as needed
instead of flushing and costing lots of money!

 

[Mkrop]

Um, when I was a kid- I'd read anything and everything in the bathroom. Labels on shampoos, conditioners, hair spray, etc. Don't know why- I always had to be reading something while using the bathroom.

You should look at it this way- at least you're raising literate children!

I do the same thing! If I forget a magazine or a book, I grab a bottle of whatever I can reach!

 

[Mkrop]

Well, its starting to seem like I have some rather odd (or at least not popularly shared) ideas about toilet usage.

Here's another of my "rules" (which nobody in my family follows)--you shouldn't come out of the bathroom until the toilet is through flushing. I mean, its just gross to walk out with a flushing toilet in the background, it makes the rest of us somehow a part of your "experience". Oh, and run the water while peeing so no one hears you. Well, most ladies do so, guys just go like a horse and could care less who hears them (or smells them!)

Courtesy flushes and running the water while you pee! My father is spinning his grave thinking of the waster of water, your water bills must be high!

 

[Mkrop]

Seems like several of us are getting tags bc of this thread! Gee I never thought my first tag would be about my bathroom habits. What a proud moment, hold on let me call my mom!

 

[mickeyfan2]

Well, its starting to seem like I have some rather odd (or at least not popularly shared) ideas about toilet usage.

Here's another of my "rules" (which nobody in my family follows)--you shouldn't come out of the bathroom until the toilet is through flushing. I mean, its just gross to walk out with a flushing toilet in the background, it makes the rest of us somehow a part of your "experience". Oh, and run the water while peeing so no one hears you. Well, most ladies do so, guys just go like a horse and could care less who hears them (or smells them!)

Another lady who does not run the water when I pee.

It is best not to stand outside the bathroom door when people are using it.

 

[Stimpy]

Seems like several of us are getting tags bc of this thread! Gee I never thought my first tag would be about my bathroom habits. What a proud moment, hold on let me call my mom!

I noticed that too! Tag fairy must have some extra time in the bathroom on a laptop lately

 

[Mkrop]

I am also glad to see people using words like pee and stuff. My uptight MIL (who by the way searches high and low for the crossword puzzle b4 she goes in, so it must be acceptable) hates the fact that I use the words pee and poop with my kids. I mean now DS9 uses just the generic term bathroom. But this drove/drives her crazy, she would babysit and when I got home she would tell me that one of the boys had a BM. So especially if we were training I would praise them for pooping in the potty. she would ask them if they needed to make a BM and they would look at her like she had 3 heads. I could see her blood pressure rise but cmon I knew she is a nurse but 80 yr old men have BMs, little boys poop in the potty!

Oh well the few times I won the battles against my MIL. Some days it explains so much as why DH is the way he is!

 

[Desnik]

Both our bathrooms are well stocked with magazines! We are a family of readers on the potty! Even when DS(4) was potty training and he had a hard time going on the potty, I handed him one of his books and it worked like a charm! Seriously I thought it was very normal, common to read in the bathroom. DH and I have even used the laptop in there too! You know not everyone has an easy time in there and can just go quickly and get out!

 

[robertsmom]

I have to agree with the majority here. I keep books in my bathroom too. Sometimes it takes a minute of relaxation for the "let down" reflex to kick in!

 

[bunny]

My father read on the toilet for years. Now in his sixities he has bleeding hemorrhoids which he is going to have removed soon. His doctor told him that reading on the toilet aggravates your hemorrhoids. You should get in and get out.

 

[*KeepMovingForward*]

My father read on the toilet for years. Now in his sixities he has bleeding hemorrhoids which he is going to have removed soon. His doctor told him that reading on the toilet aggravates your hemorrhoids. You should get in and get out.

I thought straining caused the hemorrhoids...so if you try to get in and out quickly when your one of those people that need those few minutes to relax, I would think that would be worse than actually sitting there. Thankfully, I have no experience with hemorrhoids and hopefully I never will.

 

[dvcnewgirl]

The only thing that bothers me about reading in the bathroom is that DH disappears for over 1/2 hour! When he's having a hard day or the kids are extra crazy, he goes and "reads" 2-3 times a day which irritates me to no end since he's using it to escape. We all know dern well he isn't doing much else in there. I tend to pass the Immodium through the door thinking he'll get the hint

My DS has also taken up the habit especially at bedtime. All of a sudden he grabs a thick book and heads into the bathroom. He'll sit in there all night if he could just to put off bedtime.

Now if I take longer than 5 minutes in the bathroom, I have 2 kids banging on the door, cats clawing at the molding, Dh calling "where'd you go??"....

This is what happens to me! It drives me NUTS!!

 

[Mouse House Mama]

This is what happens to me! It drives me NUTS!!

Yes but it is not a tru bathroom experience unless you have one child standing on your lap while another is trying to look in the bowl while you shoo them away and another is complaining about the smell!!!

 

[MichelleVW]

I thought straining caused the hemorrhoids...so if you try to get in and out quickly when your one of those people that need those few minutes to relax, I would think that would be worse than actually sitting there. Thankfully, I have no experience with hemorrhoids and hopefully I never will.

I'm pretty sure you're right...it's not the reading...it's the straining!!

 

[me again]

Seems like several of us are getting tags bc of this thread! Gee I never thought my first tag would be about my bathroom habits. What a proud moment, hold on let me call my mom!

I should clarify, running water while "peeing" is something I only do if somewhere else, not at home. Heavens, we're used to the sound at home! Just yesterday I was waiting in a car repair shop, had to use the restroom, it was right off the lobby, could hear everything through the door, I just felt better running the water rather than a whole waiting room hearing me pee!

Just how does a "courtesy flush" run up the water bill? You just flush once per....incident, regardless of right after the "incident" or wait until it stinks up the place!

Surprised to see how much interest this silly thread has generated, and the tags received!