# Would you take an open beverage container into the bathroom? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 22, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-take-an-open-beverage-container-into-the-bathroom/349446 "2006-03-22T16:38:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-take-an-open-beverage-container-into-the-bathroom/349446/61 "2006-03-23T21:10:05Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > That’d be wonderful if bathroom doors had a small window to view the caged moth with inside. If someone’s airburst has killed the moth then you know to look for another bathroom. Some of us would have to search out a supplier of moths in bulk, particularly if we’d been eating certain foods. Maybe they could have the moths for sale on the bean aisle of the supermarket? [QUOTE=Corner Case] Hey, stop all this nasty talk! You kiss your mother with that moth! [/QUOTE] I use my mouth to kiss my mother (and anyone else). I had no idea a moth was supposed to be somehow involved. Am I doing it wrong? You’re not supposed to use the same moth you use to test the odor in the bathroom to kiss people, are you? :eek: > [@don't ask](#): > > No, but you may work at the kind of place where people spit in your drink if you leave it at your desk. > [@Cervaise](#): > > Hey, that’s fine, as long as they aren’t topping it with aerosolized urine. But unless they’ve got a urinary tract infection or something like that, the spit almost certainly contains a _lot_ more and nastier germs than the aerosolized urine would. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-take-an-open-beverage-container-into-the-bathroom/349446/62 "2006-03-23T21:10:36Z")
[QUOTE=Interrobang!?] For some of us, at least, fear of germs has nothing to do with it. I don’t like to eat or drink anywhere I’m going to be smelling anything nasty at the same time – hot tar, cat shit, rotting meat, gasoline, rancid grease, whatever. Last time I checked, my coworkers’ farts, shit, and standing urine all smelled unpleasant, so I don’t eat or drink stuff while I can smell them. Given that smell plays such a large role in how we taste things, I don’t think that’s an unreasonable position. [/QUOTE] Oh, certainly. But the OP wasn’t about actually drinking while _in_ the bathroom, it was about taking an open container in there, “doing your business”, then exiting and drinking afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-take-an-open-beverage-container-into-the-bathroom/349446/63 "2006-03-23T21:22:24Z")
[QUOTE=Anne Neville] I use my mouth to kiss my mother (and anyone else). I had no idea a moth was supposed to be somehow involved. Am I doing it wrong? [/QUOTE] And how _you_ doin’? Why doncha come up and see me sometime? I don’t have a moth collection, but I’ll show you a venus butterfly. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-take-an-open-beverage-container-into-the-bathroom/349446/64 "2006-03-23T22:17:19Z")
[QUOTE=DrDeth] But the OP wasn’t about actually drinking while _in_ the bathroom, it was about taking an open container in there, “doing your business”, then exiting and drinking afterwards. [/QUOTE] True. Though part of the reason I try to avoid doing so (not to the point of compulsion, though, by any means) is I don’t really want the flavor of whatever I’m drinking to be associated with the smells of the restroom. It’s an appetite killer. ---
**Author:** ![BoringDad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ad7895/32.png) [@BoringDad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoringDad)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-take-an-open-beverage-container-into-the-bathroom/349446/65 "2006-03-24T03:41:50Z")
[QUOTE=Indygrrl] No way. I wouldn’t take anything in there that I planned to put in my mouth. Plenty of people do though, and it always surprises me. [/QUOTE] I figure it this way: while performing my husbandly duties, my mouth gets much closer to the source of bathroom germs than the donut I leave on the sink does. If I don’t worry about the more intense contact, why would I possibly worry about the lesser? ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-take-an-open-beverage-container-into-the-bathroom/349446/66 "2006-03-24T04:24:06Z")
i could care less. i’ve got an ironclad immune system. i’ve eaten in the bathroom before. and i’d gladly do it again!!! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-take-an-open-beverage-container-into-the-bathroom/349446/67 "2006-03-24T04:45:27Z")
In my own bathroom at home? Sure. It’s nice to have something to drink while taking a long soak in the tub. In public restrooms? Nope. Where do you put it when you’re in the stall? On the sink? No way. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-take-an-open-beverage-container-into-the-bathroom/349446/68 "2006-03-24T05:09:38Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] In my own bathroom at home? Sure. It’s nice to have something to drink while taking a long soak in the tub. In public restrooms? Nope. Where do you put it when you’re in the stall? On the sink? No way. [/QUOTE] i’d hold it. i’ve never been in a situation in a public restroom when i was eating, but if i were, i think i’d hold the place/container in my lap or, worst case scenario… SQUICK ALERT!!! …place the container on the floor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-take-an-open-beverage-container-into-the-bathroom/349446.md?page=3)