# Has anyone slept in the bathtub? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 13, 2020, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-slept-in-the-bathtub/846340 "2020-01-13T06:25:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 34
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-slept-in-the-bathtub/846340/34 "2020-01-13T22:45:13Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > I’m a tobacco chewing American, and I’ve never heard of this. 😕 Washington DC: > [@Charles Dickens](#): > > Both Houses are handsomely carpeted; but the state to which these carpets are reduced by the universal disregard of the spittoon with which every honourable member is accommodated, and the extraordinary improvements on the pattern which are squirted and dabbled upon it in every direction, do not admit of being described. I will merely observe, that I strongly recommend all strangers not to look at the floor; and if they happen to drop anything, though it be their purse, not to pick it up with an ungloved hand on any account. – and that, I suppose, was the ‘civilised’ part of the country. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-slept-in-the-bathtub/846340)._