Reading on Toilet?

[Sir Ron]

I'm installing bookshelves in my next bathroom. Maybe I should install a multimedia port as well. :lol

 

[hsmamato2]

we have 2 bathrooms, with a fully stocked reading basket! I found long ago,If there's something i want the fam to read,I leave it there,and they do! However,I draw the line at electronics...that's just nasty,all those buttons,etc.... When the kids were prereaders,they taught themselves this way,I still remember ds1 sitting in there,trying to pronounce the crazy words in the Calvin and Hobbes books

 

[hsmamato2]

Wow- I laughed at the extra flushing posts...we had to break ds2 of that habit,he flushed like 10 times while sitting in there!
But other ahem,noises,well,why run the water? people is people,and as Oprah,and the classic(japanese) kids book says,Everybody Poops!

 

[disykat]

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!

Interesting. I don't consider myself uptight. I plan on avoiding MIL issues with future DILs. I'm going to have a hard time saying "poop" and "pee" to my grandchildren though. I say that to my dog, but I never really babytalked to my kids. I was brought up saying BM (my parents are both in medical professions) and it just seems natural to do so. I never thought of it as a potential inlaw issue!

I don't get how this could be an issue. A simple "grandma calls it BM" seems like it would take care of it.

 

[kangareaux]

And here all along I thought I was odd for reading the phone book. Glad to hear I am not the only that does it in a pinch. DH doesn't read in the bathroom. I have always read in the bathroom. Helps to pass the time, while you are waiting to pass something else.

I can totally relate to that! I've been known to read ingredients on the various bottles. Shampoo...scrubbing bubbles...oust... doesn't matter.


Must ~ have ~ reading ~ material! LOL!

 

[MeetMrsMasters]

Interesting. I don't consider myself uptight. I plan on avoiding MIL issues with future DILs. I'm going to have a hard time saying "poop" and "pee" to my grandchildren though. I say that to my dog, but I never really babytalked to my kids. I was brought up saying BM (my parents are both in medical professions) and it just seems natural to do so. I never thought of it as a potential inlaw issue!

I don't get how this could be an issue. A simple "grandma calls it BM" seems like it would take care of it.

My father is in the medical profession too and when we were little we were not allowed to say that we had "boo boos" we had to say that we had injuries. One time my parents had guests at the house and I ran into the room screaming that I had an injury on my cranium; I was five. However, we never said BM in my house. We went "pee" and "poop" in my house and I still use those words when we talk to our kids. I do not think that is baby talk to me. I consider baby talk to be higher octave talking in words that end in -y sounds; like "pee-pee" and "poopy".

As for reading in the bathroom, I usually steal my fiance's Maxim magazines. I love the articles and the jokes in there, so much better than my girly magazines!

 

[kangareaux]

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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!

Oh, I just know it's bad to type this...with Tag Fairy watching this thread and all.....

Well, if you flush immediately, then you'll have to flush again after the wipe. ( Did I just say thatin public? )

 

[GroovyWheeler]

We have one bathroom in our house, and it drives me nuts when DH does #2. He takes forever when he does this, and he doesn't read at all because he isn't able to read (he suffered a traumatic brain injury at 2 years old, which also had him end up with mild cerebral palsy and partial blindness in one eye). But when I have to go badly, I'm usually standing by the bathroom "dancing" to hold it in, and pleading with my DH to let me use the bathroom. Since I have balance issues, I usually have to lean against the wall.

When I can't hold it in anymore, I usually go next door to the neighbors behind us, to ask them if I can use their bathroom because my DH was "taking his time" in ours. Or, I usually get in my power chair and motor as fast as I can, to Fred Meyer (which is fairly close to our house) and use their bathroom.

Of course, I'm the "guilty one" also, to take my time when DH needs to go. I love looking at adaptive equipment catalogs that I get periodically, when I'm going to the bathroom. I have two of them that sit on the bathroom cabinet shelf that goes over the toilet for my reading pleasure. Especially when I have to do #2, and it takes a while for me to do it.

Samantha

 

[MeetMrsMasters]

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Oh, I just know it's bad to type this...with Tag Fairy watching this thread and all.....

Well, if you flush immediately, then you'll have to flush again after the wipe. ( Did I just say thatin public? )

HAHAHA! That had me laughing so hard!

 

[luvthatduke]

Oh, I just know it's bad to type this...with Tag Fairy watching this thread and all.....

Well, if you flush immediately, then you'll have to flush again after the wipe. ( Did I just say thatin public? )

Exactly what I was going to say,
but glad you said it and not me! ~
I got the impression from the OP that she expected her family to
courtesy flush the "incidents" repeatedly until they were finished .

Oh, Tag Fairy!

 

[ThreeMusketeers]

This is an interesting topic! lol I only think its strange when i hear DH laughing on the toliet, and then I realize he is reading a "funny" article. LOL
DD (5) now reads on the potty too. Whatever..who cares. Better than staring at wall, while doing your buisness!

BTW: I hate using the word "poop", but I will say pee with no problem.


lol

 

[Mkrop]

Interesting. I don't consider myself uptight. I plan on avoiding MIL issues with future DILs. I'm going to have a hard time saying "poop" and "pee" to my grandchildren though. I say that to my dog, but I never really babytalked to my kids. I was brought up saying BM (my parents are both in medical professions) and it just seems natural to do so. I never thought of it as a potential inlaw issue!

I don't get how this could be an issue. A simple "grandma calls it BM" seems like it would take care of it.

It is not this one particular issue that makes her uptight but the whole package! She is uptight in many aspects of life! I could start a whole thread on some of her quirks! She also has some control issues. Even DH see his mom as uptight! He loves her but she is just quirky!

I too do not find this baby talk, I find it more common slang that has it place in every day society. I think if you took a poll you would find more people say pee and poop than urination or bowel movement! And a simple grandma call it this is fine when they are older by not as easy to get across when they are 2 or 3 and training and she keeps asking them if they have to make a BM and they have no clue what she is saying bc DH, myself and my mom who watched them when I worked PT all call it one thing. Even the teachers at school call it that (preschool that is)

I hope you are lucky enough to have a good MIL/DIL relationship with your kids, mine sticks her nose in many areas it doesnt belong so she drives me crazy but she is a good mom to DH and a good grandma to the kids but she does have her moments when she makes me want to scream and then I am extremely glad she lives 2 hours away.

 

[me again]

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Oh, I just know it's bad to type this...with Tag Fairy watching this thread and all.....

Well, if you flush immediately, then you'll have to flush again after the wipe. ( Did I just say thatin public? )

Well, no, actually one should wipe immediately after the "incident" then flush all at once. Who wants to sit on the pot dripping stuff while reading? Or talking on the cell, playing Nintendo, whatever

 

[me again]

Wonder why this thread has generated so many tags? Me thinks the Tag Fairy spends a considerable amount of time on the potty, with her laptop, attracted to threads concerning her favorite activity!

 

[marlynnp]

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!)

eeeeeeeeew, if the toilet's still running, hands were NOT washed properly!

Running the water while going to the toilet is a waste of water. Do you really think everyone's trying to listen to you pee?

 

[me again]

eeeeeeeeew, if the toilet's still running, hands were NOT washed properly!

Running the water while going to the toilet is a waste of water. Do you really think everyone's trying to listen to you pee?

Seems like I'm getting a lot of responses about letting the water run while "going". I did clarify in another post that I only do this while in a "public" toilet without too much privacy, like the other day I was using the rest room in a waiting area at a car repair shop, the rest room was right off the lounge. Well, excuse me, but I didn't feel comfortable with having the whole waiting area hear me go so I ran the water, so what!

No, we don't run the water while going while at home, we know what we're doing in there!

 

[jaame]

I myself don't understand the whole reading in the bathroom thing. I think going to the bathroom is a waste of time as it is, I certainly don't want to sit in there and read. However, my dh almost always spends time in there reading and my sons are picking up on his habit. I suppose it's not the worst habit in the world.

 

[lyzziesmom]

Well, no, actually one should wipe immediately after the "incident" then flush all at once. Who wants to sit on the pot dripping stuff while reading? Or talking on the cell, playing Nintendo, whatever

I think most of the reading, talking, playing, etc. takes place while waiting for the "incident" to happen, not afterwards. At least in my case it does. Or sometimes you wipe and then realize you're not done. Not everyone has the ability to just get in, go, and get out.

You'd be horrified at my house... not only do we not close the door but sometimes if one of my kids has to go (pee only) right after I did, we will "mix" and just flush it all at once. It saves water, and also avoids the flood you get if you flush my old pipes too close together.

No, we don't run the water while going while at home, we know what we're doing in there!

I'm sorry but this is still funny! Do you think the car repair shop people don't know what you're doing in the restroom?


What I can't get over is people at work who make loud restroom noises when they know they are not alone. At my job, there is a restroom on each floor with 4 stalls in each ladies' room. (NO idea about the mens', and don't want to know!) I walked in at the same time as a coworker. This woman is well put together, nicely dressed and has a good management position. We made small talk and then each went into our respective stalls with an empty between us, nobody else in there, and she produced the loudest, longest fart noises I have ever heard!! I mean, those things were reverberating off the porcelain. Then she continued to try to make small talk with me. Ewww! At least attempt to hold those suckers in until you're alone. I know sometimes you can't but man, she really let 'em fly. It's not even like being in a store or movie theater where at least it's anonymous -- it's at work, this is someone I now I have to face every day and try not to think of her horrible fart noises every time I see her.

 

[me again]

What I can't get over is people at work who make loud restroom noises when they know they are not alone. At my job, there is a restroom on each floor with 4 stalls in each ladies' room. (NO idea about the mens', and don't want to know!) I walked in at the same time as a coworker. This woman is well put together, nicely dressed and has a good management position. We made small talk and then each went into our respective stalls with an empty between us, nobody else in there, and she produced the loudest, longest fart noises I have ever heard!! I mean, those things were reverberating off the porcelain. Then she continued to try to make small talk with me. Ewww! At least attempt to hold those suckers in until you're alone. I know sometimes you can't but man, she really let 'em fly. It's not even like being in a store or movie theater where at least it's anonymous -- it's at work, this is someone I now I have to face every day and try not to think of her horrible fart noises every time I see her.

I guess the restroom is the great equalizer at work! somehow you never view a person the same way once you've listened to him fart and probably smelled it, too!

 

[me again]

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I'm sorry but this is still funny! Do you think the car repair shop people don't know what you're doing in the restroom?
While I'm sure the car repair shop people knew what I was doing in the restroom I didn't feel comfortable having them hear me, any more than seeing me. That's why I shut the door, for some privacy, and running the water provided some more privacy. Otherwise, why bother shutting the door? why not just put the toilet in the middle of the waiting area--everyone knows what you're doing, so why "hide"?