Reading on Toilet?

[U2_rocks!]

Well I am sure many women dissers will agree when I say that I would never ever use a public bathroom for #2!!! Don't you know that women don't do those things?

Hey, if the urge hits, the urge hits! But I won't go unless the urge is strong, and then there's no trouble getting in and out quickly! I just sit there thinking "please don't let the door open, please, please, please ........" And if the door does open and someone comes in ...... well, it's definitely time to flush and get out!

 

[benjaminb13]

Next house I buy will have 2 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms-
Some will be designated "thinker's toilets" others "hit and run"
That way way both sides will be happy

 

[allie_to_you]

Oops...double post

 

[allie_to_you]

Well, I just don't see too much wrong with reading myself, as long as you aren't taking up bathroom time that is needed by someone else. I think it does help you to relax and takes your mind off the amount of time you are taking if you have bowel problems. I mean, there are books intended for people to read in the bathroom -- they are the Uncle John bathroom readers .

Hey, what are the tags people keep talking about getting?

 

[jennifer293]

You know those little black plastic things that they put on the doors of the dr. exam rooms for your file? I have those hanging in each of our 3 bathrooms stockpiled with the lastest mags and children's books. DH has a fit if he cannot read something while on the toilet... He says that concentrating on the words in the magazine makes him more relaxed and therefore things "flow" easier..hahaha

 

[Mouse House Mama]

Hey, if the urge hits, the urge hits! But I won't go unless the urge is strong, and then there's no trouble getting in and out quickly! I just sit there thinking "please don't let the door open, please, please, please ........" And if the door does open and someone comes in ...... well, it's definitely time to flush and get out!

Yes but you cannot get out until the other person leaves because you don't want them to know you actually poop!!!

 

[U2_rocks!]

Yes but you cannot get out until the other person leaves because you don't want them to know you actually poop!!!

Well yes, if it's obvious that pooping was going on, I pretend to fuss with my clothes until the person goes into their stall and can't see me come out! But it's not always that obvious what I was doing. Whereas there is never any doubt, for several minutes after, what DH was doing in a bathroom! I sometimes wonder what he eats?

 

[happy_redhead]

okay guys....vhoffman/me again is at it again....do we really care about everyone else's potty habits?

 

[earthfaries]

I guess I am in the minority, I don't care if anyone else knows I am pooping. It is natural, everyone does it. I always find it very amusing, even more so than bodily function noises when I know someone is pooping in another stall and starts flushing the toilet, getting tp, coughing, etc. To me that is funny

 

[Mouse House Mama]

What's really funny are the automatic flush toilets! The force is so powerful that not only does it flush it away but it wipes your butt with a force of water at the same time!

 

[crazy_for_the_dis]

I think it depends on how you are raised. Everyone in our family read in the bathroom. Growing up, at home it was the TV Guide (remember that, do they even make TV Guide anymore!) At my grandmother's, it was my grandfather's Playboys and dare I admit, Penthouses (hey, they were in there, just begging to be read). I don't think they knew though hopefully, but my husband sure appreciates all the tips and ideas I learned with all that reading! Now, we had an electronic Sudoko in the bathroom, but that got old quick. So now we have wireless internet, and with my laptop, is one of my favorite places to read the DIS! Not right now though, so don't get grossed out. This really is a weird thread, and this is the most I have ever revealed about myself in any public forum of any kind. Oh well, it had to come out sooner or later (literally)!

 

[WalkingintheFog]

.....this thread made me pee with laughter.......

I grew up as the youngest in a family of readers.
And I was a faster reader than my twin sisters who were 1 year ahead of me in school.
They had great books to read for class.
I'd pick up the latest and head to the bathroom. Lock the door and by the time they'd figure out where the book disappeared to, I'd have a few chapters done. "To Kill A Mockingbird", "Old Man and the Sea" and "Wuthering Heights" were some of the best!

In fact, whenever someone was in the bathroom overly long, we never knocked and asked "are you okay in there?" or "are you going to be done soon?". It was usually Bang on the door, and "put the book down!"

 

[theatermouse]

This is a great thread. I grew up reading in the bathroom! Still do!! My son even has special books for potty time since we're working on training.

 

[tink1969]

OMG! This is such a funny thread!
My DH is a bathroom reader and I remember my older brothers doing the same thing.
Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode when George brought a book in to the washroom at store. When he came out and tried to return it to the shelf, the store clerks stopped him and said he had to buy it because it was used in a washroom and was now contaminated. When he tried to sell it to a consignment shop, they wouldn't take it because it had been "tagged" as a bathroom book. Hilarious!

 

[powellrj]

shoot, I thought me again was back and posting again!!! I was reading through the thread and saw lots of people I hadn't seen posting in awhile until I realized the thread was from 2007!!!!! Why do people drag out old threads just to get us all excited again!!!

 

[HappyPeach]

I thought everyone read in the potty.

My son's potty-training video even has a whole song about "what do you like to do when you're sitting on the potty?"

 

[WantToGoNow]

I keep my Unofficial Guide and Birnbaum guides in there for everyone to "research" while they're there. Dh is the only one that spends an excessive amount of time in there reading.

 

[tinkerlisa]

Sometimes I say I have to go to the bathroom just so I CAN read. LOL. I never get a minute to myself I swear so I go hide in the bathroom for 15 minutes or so.

I know lots of people that keep reading material in their bathrooms. I have an aunt that used to keep the "POTTY BOOK" in hers. It was filled with useless trivia knowledge. I used to snag it and read it when my cousin wasn't around to hang with.
My friend's dad kept his "reading" material in the bathroom for all to see which I think is gross. I only used her bathroom once because of that.

 

[SLK1]

This is a very funny thread! I have to admit though...my DH is disgusted that I am the one who reads in the bathroom! He won't even get books from the library because he is afraid the previous borrower may have used them in the bathroom!

I have no shame...plus I don't really understand what is so gross about it. It's not like I wipe with the book! Before I even leave the room, my hands are washed, so I just don't get the gripe!

Happy Reading! And flushing!!!

 

[RMulieri]

We are Bathroom readers as well. Me, Dh, and even my 5 yr old will bring a book in there.