Downstairs bathroom: Mr2U reads the newspaper in there - I read the National Enquirer. He even built me a bee-yoo-tee-ful National Enquirer holder that hangs on the wall and is painted to match the towels.
Still, “sink aerosol” isn’t nearly as nasty to think about as “toilet aerosol”. What’s in the kitchen goes IN my body, and what’s in the bathroom goes OUT.
I don’t read in the toilet. It distracts from the primary mission objective. Besides, pulling down of the pants is immediately followed by taking a shit followed by wiping followed by pulling pants back up. Where do you find time to read? Do you take an extraordinarily long time to shit? Do you sit and read before wiping, with number 2 on your butt and in the toilet bowl? Do you wipe and sit and read with your pants down, which is exactly like sitting on the couch and reading with your pants up, except more cold and less comfortable? Sorry if this is too graphic, but I just can’t imagine it.
It’s my moment of zen. I don’t just jump in there and bombard the water with turd. You might blow an o ring out or jumble up some pipes or something. Besides, that room almost always has good lighting.
It’s also a good excuse to do some reading/homework/surfing, as well.
Mrs. Duckster and I have different reading habits (and materials), but there is one source we both agree on in the downstair bathroom. We have out growing collection of the Bathroom Reader’s Institute books there. BRI even quotes regularly from the Uncle Cecil and the SD.
The libraries in our town have the bathrooms in the lobby on the other side of the security gates, so not a problem.
I don’t keep a reading book there, since it would take too long to read. I do keep various puzzle books, and bring a book in. Sometimes two - I might finish it and have nothing to read. :eek:
When I was 10, and moved to Africa, I read the entire Rise and Fall of the Third Reich on the can getting adjusted to the climate.
Dijon Warlock should listen to the George Carlin routine about keeping from getting polio in the late '40s by swimming in the crap infested Hudson. All I know is that I’m 55 and am sick maybe a day every three years. I’m a believer in mild exposure giving immunity.
It’s weird and gross. I’m on the throne for as short a time as I can be there whilst maintaining hygeine. Unless a person is unnaturally constipated, the effort involved should take a short enough time that even a fast reader has only done a paragraph or two. After that, you need the use of your hands to deal with the paper and whatnot. Aside from the fact that it’s gross, it’s not worth the effort of carrying a book in there. Oh yes, and it’s gross.
So, for the majority of you who don’t have any issues with reading in the bathroom (I am one of you; I don’t know how the wife and I would ever get through each month’s Popular Science without that quality time), I pose an even stranger question: in this age of wireless networks, have any of you ever taken your laptop in the bathroom with you? :eek:
Someone up-thread said that they did. I’m not easily yucked out but I couldn’t help but wonder if they had posted to the board while crapping. Eeeewwww!
I am a non-reader simply because things move pretty quickly for me.
