# Don't you just \*hate it\* when your book falls in the toilet? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2008, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-hate-it-when-your-book-falls-in-the-toilet/446129 "2008-04-20T17:01:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-hate-it-when-your-book-falls-in-the-toilet/446129/1 "2008-04-20T17:01:25Z")
:smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: Nobody’s fault but mine. Fortunately I was right at the very end of \*\*Antony & Cleopatra \*\*by Colleen McCullough. As a result, it was off balance, I guess - and it pitched forward off the top of the toilet’s water tank into…what I had been standing there for in the first place. As Cher would’ve said in Clueless: Eww. I picked it up by the still-clean top and dropped it into the recycling bin. Oy. I _hate_ it when that happens. :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-hate-it-when-your-book-falls-in-the-toilet/446129/2 "2008-04-20T18:23:37Z")
It’s never happened to me. Plenty of toiletrolls have fallen in, but no books. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-hate-it-when-your-book-falls-in-the-toilet/446129/3 "2008-04-20T18:33:21Z")
She gets killed by a snake. ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-hate-it-when-your-book-falls-in-the-toilet/446129/4 "2008-04-20T18:59:18Z")
Does this happen to you often, **WordMan**? You might want to think about keeping the toilet lid closed. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-hate-it-when-your-book-falls-in-the-toilet/446129/5 "2008-04-20T20:28:38Z")
Hey, at least it was your book! I’m now a bit suspicious about the wavy-paged library book I have sitting on my nightstand. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-hate-it-when-your-book-falls-in-the-toilet/446129/6 "2008-04-20T20:51:18Z")
Dear Ms. McCullough, I was urinating the other day, and happened to notice that (enter criticism of some aspect of the book here) I dropped my Palm in the tub once, but that’s another thread. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-hate-it-when-your-book-falls-in-the-toilet/446129/7 "2008-04-20T20:56:49Z")
Wow, just wow. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-hate-it-when-your-book-falls-in-the-toilet/446129/8 "2008-04-20T23:09:26Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] I dropped my Palm in the tub once, but that’s another thread. [/QUOTE] Oh no - this thread will do nicely, thankyouverymuch - spill it! (pun intended) And \*\*An Gadai \*\* - care to expand on the Wow factor? You’ve never multi-tasked your way to an accident without even realizing you were multi-tasking (or headed for an accident) before? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-hate-it-when-your-book-falls-in-the-toilet/446129/9 "2008-04-20T23:22:45Z")
[QUOTE=WordMan] spill it! [/QUOTE] So I’m reading _The Voyage of the Beagle_ in the tub, fell asleep and dropped the damn thing. Field stripped it, as it were and had to clean a little rust off the circuit board before it would work again. Might have been a new battery involved, too. I’ve slept since then. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-hate-it-when-your-book-falls-in-the-toilet/446129/10 "2008-04-20T23:25:58Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] So I’m reading _The Voyage of the Beagle_ in the tub, fell asleep and dropped the damn thing. Field stripped it, as it were and had to clean a little rust off the circuit board before it would work again. Might have been a new battery involved, too. I’ve slept since then. [/QUOTE] a-HA! Another multi-tasking stuck in a bathroom accident! See? Could happen to anyone! Although I do think bathwater is typically a cut above toilet water, unless you…you know…wait…you didn’t, did you? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-hate-it-when-your-book-falls-in-the-toilet/446129/11 "2008-04-20T23:32:28Z")
[QUOTE=WordMan] you didn’t, did you? [/QUOTE] No, sometimes I have company, and that sort of thing _really_ annoys Mrs. Plant. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-hate-it-when-your-book-falls-in-the-toilet/446129/12 "2008-04-21T00:13:15Z")
I still have the copy of _The Song of Roland_ that I dropped in the toilet, although I haven’t had occasion to reread it. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-hate-it-when-your-book-falls-in-the-toilet/446129/13 "2008-04-21T05:35:03Z")
Do I hate it when a book fails in the toilet? Not really. It keeps my love life company. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-hate-it-when-your-book-falls-in-the-toilet/446129/14 "2008-04-21T06:22:54Z")
[QUOTE=WordMan] Don’t you just _hate it_ when your book falls in the toilet? [/QUOTE] Maybe you should use toilet tissue instead, like the rest of us? ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-hate-it-when-your-book-falls-in-the-toilet/446129/15 "2008-04-21T07:08:23Z")
It’s worse when it’s a library book. Or one you’ve borrowed from a friend. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-hate-it-when-your-book-falls-in-the-toilet/446129/16 "2008-04-21T10:00:27Z")
[QUOTE=Askance] Maybe you should use toilet tissue instead, like the rest of us? [/QUOTE] **pencils down** We have a winner! ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-hate-it-when-your-book-falls-in-the-toilet/446129/17 "2008-04-21T11:33:36Z")
Just last week I dropped my radio in the toilet. That’s the second one I’ve lost at work, although it’s been three years since the last time. Fortunately I had an Instant Recognition Award (our company’s version of an Attaboy) tucked in my purse, so I was able to cash it in on a new radio and continue to block out my coworker’s lame jokes again. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-hate-it-when-your-book-falls-in-the-toilet/446129/18 "2008-04-21T11:51:42Z")
Pity, **WordMan** , you weren’t reading something by Melville. ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-hate-it-when-your-book-falls-in-the-toilet/446129/19 "2008-04-21T12:59:18Z")
[QUOTE=t-bonham@scc.net] It’s worse when it’s a library book. Or one you’ve borrowed from a friend. [/QUOTE] or the one you have to finish reading and write a a book report. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-hate-it-when-your-book-falls-in-the-toilet/446129/20 "2008-04-21T13:30:04Z")
Boss’s new cell phone: $400 Boss talking to company about replacing the new cell phone that she dropped into the toilet: Priceless _What do you mean, you don’t replace cell phones that have been dropped in the toilet. I’ll just take this brand new cell phone and throw it in the street and run over it. Then you will have to replace it._ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-hate-it-when-your-book-falls-in-the-toilet/446129.md?page=2)