TV Guide,
Jimmy Swaggert study Bible (hey, 50 cents at a used book sale, OK!)
a cynical reporter’s book on the scientific, mystical & UFOlogist searches for
ET intelligence
I think we need to start a group, for some therapy.
Would any of you like to be my bathroom buddy? Ya know, someone to remind me to take reading material into the bathroom.
I had a bathroom buddy when I was a little kid. {cue flashback music and scene distortion} It was this plastic doll kinda thing with overalls and a red checked shirt (think of a skinny Bob’s Big Boy) that my grandmother would fill with water. I’d hold the doll next to me, facing the toilet, and when I’d pee, he’d pee. That’s all I remember about it.
since we just moved i was forced to clear out the reading stash. in addition to all the shampoo bottles there are several cans of paint to read and some instructions on installing a new vanity light (in spanish and french, too!). usually there is the mammoth book of erotica (several volumes rotate), a paperback dictionary and various magazines.
mr. toes doesn’t read on the pot (what a waste) so all of the above are mine.
I guess my family belongs in this club too.
At my parents house there was always a stack of magazines in there. It infuriated me when my mother went in with the newspaper as I knew it would be over an hour and invariably I needed to pee during that time. There was hell to pay if you disturbed her. I vowed to never begin the practice of bathroom reading.
Diesels of the Southern Railway 1939–1982
What? What do you mean by WEIRD? Doesn’t everyone want to know about the 70 SD45 locomotives that Southern operated?
No one has “The Straight Dope” in their bathroom? If I had reading material in my bathroom, that would be it.
I am so glad I opened this thread!
It made me remember that I brought the book contact in there, left it there after I finished defecating, and later I thought I lost it!
Until 2001, my family of four lived in a house with one bathroom. I didn’t allow books in there at all for this very reason. When your house has three bedrooms and one bathroom, it makes far more sense to choose one of the former when you want some privacy for uninterrupted reading.
Although we now live with the luxury of three (count 'em, three) bathrooms, I was thinking that we still don’t keep reading material in any of them. I realized, though, that I do keep a stack of magazines by the jacuzzi tub in the master bedroom - usually the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, People, Newsweek, Us, and any other reading material I don’t mind risking near water.
When I was younger, having reading material in the bathroom was very important, today I concur with Nametag 
The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook.
The Collected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, bilingual version. ( - this is the one I pick up whenever I sit down. Even if you only have a few seconds, something good is always available in this one.)
The Vitamin Bible.
They’ve all been in the bathroom for over a year now. What they must have witnessed so far!
About a year’s worth of Card Player magazine and Sun Tzu