Reading on Toilet?

[brymolmom]

I have been enjoying this OT thread. Very funny stuff. I keep reading some posts to my DH. I am a reader so he is obviously laughing that I am 'one of them'.

I don't think this one tip has been mentioned. A bunch of girlfriends go to Las Vegas every fall and we have a bunch of women with 2 bathrooms for 4 days where drinking is involved (does some intense things to your intestines) - anyway, much less room than a huge can of deodorizer....bring a pack of matches - lighting a match and dropping it into the toilet immediately removes the odor. Try it at home too. It really works.

To all the other potty readers out there - keep up the good work! Spreading literacy to all bathrooms in the US is our goal!

 

[surfergirl602]

My drs have told me that its actually not good for you to sit and read while on the toilet. it can cause hemorhoids along with bowel problems.

 

[anewmac]

I do it, I have kids and SOMETIMES its the only time I can read in peace... not often but sometimes I get lucky LOL

 

[RMulieri]

I do have a problem with people using the phone on the pot! Not long ago, I was at the mall. I went into the public restroom. Many people were using the toilets. A woman was on her phone. It had to be obvious what she was doing!

I can beat you on that one...I went into a bathroom was doing my buisness and then flushed..A woman on her cell freaked on me .Screamed her head off that she is trying to use the phone! I looked at her opened the door to the restroom looked at the sign, looked at the toilets, then at her and said "you are in a bathroom"... she continued to go NUTS..

 

[sl_underwood]

I thought this was normal, lol. In our house, we have a magazine rack with tons of educational mags the kids read, a notebook where the kids leave each other notes, etc. I have turned potty time into education, lol. On a daily basis, one of my kids will come out of the bathroom to tell me about some strange fact they read in one of the many magazines (or bathroom readers) They have also learned to spell and punctuate just from writing notes to one another. I guess it just depends how you see it. Granted, we have 3 bathrooms so there isnt alot of waiting.

 

[trennr]

I just found this thread.

Here is my dad of 73 on any given night in the Bathroom.


Gotta go my legs are getting numb.

Swoooooossshhhh....glugggggh

 

[PatsMom]

Another family of bathroom readers here. I grew up with magazines in the bathroom. Readers Digest was great because the articles were short.

My guesthouse doesn't have indoor plumbing. My brothers are truly rugged souls (with no sense of smell) because they keep reading material in the outhouse!

 

[Tink_fanatic]

We read in the bathroom too. Sometimes that's my only moment of peace. Before I had my daughter I could read a novel in like 2 days...now it takes me two weeks!!!!

 

[WalkingintheFog]

I can beat you on that one...I went into a bathroom was doing my buisness and then flushed..A woman on her cell freaked on me .Screamed her head off that she is trying to use the phone! I looked at her opened the door to the restroom looked at the sign, looked at the toilets, then at her and said "you are in a bathroom"... she continued to go NUTS..

I guess she thought that was the largest telephone booth she was ever in! You think the not-glass walls should have given it away!

 

[Cantw8]

Oh noz...who got this thread stuck on their shoe and drug it all over the board

 

[disneysuncat]

This thread is hilarious!

I am one of those people who is disgusted by "bathroom humor", was raised not to EVER say the f-word for passing gas (see, I can't even TYPE it, and it's not a bad word!) yet I felt compelled to open this thread.

Someone near the beginning talking about the cats clawing at the moulding if they were in there too long just cracked me up.

Growing up, my dad always had at LEAST three paperback books in the bathroom, he's never been a read-one-at-a-time guy. My brother would have his dirt bike magazines in there, and I would sneak the TV guide in. I guess I thought it was just something you did. Over the years my Mother has dropped her proper-ness I guess, as there are Martha Stewart Livings and such in her restroom. And it's passed on down the line, as my daughter will cart her Nintendo Power magazines in there.

I think reading in the bathroom can be dangerous, if you are a perpetual clutz like my sister in law. My niece left newspaper on the floor in one of their bathrooms, my sister in law went it, stepped on it, it somehow slipped, and she fell and hit her back on the toilet. I am a horrible person and laughed about that.

When my daughter was three, apparently I was in the restroom too long, because she drew a picture of a snake and shoved it under the bathroom door. A cobra, no less.

 

[Missy1961]

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!!!

I was just going to ask the same thing!

 

[Broadway Duchess]

I'm Broadway Duchess, and I'm a Toilet Reader.

My parents call it the library. All of the magazines wind up in the basket there, so we're generally a well-informed bunch. If I call to speak to my father and he is otherwise occupied, my mother will say he's "conducting research." DS10 does take forever and I know that's something that he picked up from all of us. I think it's because potty time is private time, and generally, no one gets bothered there.

Before DB started school, my mother had to break him of the habit of stripping completely nude to do #2. She would explain to him that it wasn't necessary and ask him why he needed to be naked, and he'd always tell her that he didn't want "anything to get on anything." DB is 27 now and he is still strange.

 

[theatermouse]

When I get my Parent's magazine, it pretty much immediately goes into 1 of the 2 bathrooms in my house. I recently cleared out the stack of magazines off the backs of the toilets and we're starting over again!

My husband sometimes even takes his laptop (we each have our own) into the potty with him.