What's Normal? - Do you typically read on the toilet? (1 Viewer)

[Keerock]

Do you typically read on the toilet?

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When you are sitting on the toilet for an "extended session", do you usually bring something to read?

Book, newspaper, phone, tablet, etc.

 

[Keerock]

I suspect a landslide here...

I'm a wholehearted yes, even though I'm a sprint pooper. Don't spend more than a minute or 2 evacuating.

 

[Snoopy]

I'm like Jerry Seinfeld, as in I get in and out as fast as possible and never bring reading material

 

[Brony]

If it's good enough for Al Bundy.

 

[PIK95]

Half and half.

 

[Doug B]

For many years -- and really, still today -- that time is pretty much all my personal time. Five minutes to concentrate on something I want to concentrate on is a small blessing.

 

[AAABatteries]

Try to wrap things up quickly as it can lead to or irritate hemorrhoids but I still will read something for a minute or two while the process plays out.

 

[zamboni]

Half and half.

You read coffee creamer cartons on the throne?

 

[zamboni]

Some of my best Immaculate Grid work is done there.

 

[Jaysus]

it's pretty much the only reason I have a smart phone.

 

[Zow]

I usually am reading the FFA or playing chess on my iphone.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Yes. Used to be a magazine or a book - but now it's my phone.

 

[Hastur]

I have a shelf next to the throne with a few books, along with two "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader" volumes.

List of 'Uncle John' books

 

[The General]

I’ll read the shampoo bottle if I have to.

 

[Drunken knight]

Yes. Used to be a magazine or a book - but now it's my phone.

used to even have a magazine rack in there: travel, food & wine, cars

 

[gianmarco]

Posting from there right now. So.... Yes.

 

[Drunken knight]

Posting from there right now. So.... Yes.

does the quatty potty get in the way or typing?

 

[Psychopav]

It's my sanctum sanctorum, always has been. Man when I was a kid there were times I literally spent hours on the toilet. Now I'm usually out in 30-45 minutes.

 

[ChiefD]

I remember years ago I was a sales rep for Dewalt power tools. I had an account that was in Indiana - a farm store type that had locations everywhere. So I go in to meet the GM for the first time. It was a bit of a drive from my home base in Indianapolis, so after the meeting I asked to use the restroom before I went to my next stop.

The guy tells me where to go - and he has this little grin working.

I walk into this restroom and there is a STACK of porn magazines in one of the stalls: Playboy, Hustler, Penthouse, Swank......all of the good ones. I bust out laughing in there. Do my business, and walk back to his office.

He was a big 'ol boy - nice as hell. He's sitting back in his chair with his hands on the back of his head leaning back with the biggest smile on his face and says:

"You enjoy that restroom?"

Me: "You're damn right. I may come back tomorrow."

We just laughed and laughed.

 

[gianmarco]

I remember years ago I was a sales rep for Dewalt power tools. I had an account that was in Indiana - a farm store type that had locations everywhere. So I go in to meet the GM for the first time. It was a bit of a drive from my home base in Indianapolis, so after the meeting I asked to use the restroom before I went to my next stop.

The guy tells me where to go - and he has this little grin working.

I walk into this restroom and there is a STACK of porn magazines in one of the stalls: Playboy, Hustler, Penthouse, Swank......all of the good ones. I bust out laughing in there. Do my business, and walk back to his office.

He was a big 'ol boy - nice as hell. He's sitting back in his chair with his hands on the back of his head leaning back with the biggest smile on his face and says:

"You enjoy that restroom?"

Me: "You're damn right. I may come back tomorrow."

We just laughed and laughed.

You should have offered to shake his hand the moment you came back in to see what he'd do.

 

[Keerock]

Can't find it now, but I remember a TikTok where someone fabricated a telescoping phone holder that folded out from the wall and cradled his phone while he was seated. Unsightly, but genius.

 

[Gally]

Don't read per se but am on the phone checking various things like FFA. Marked yes on the pole

 

[Terminalxylem]

No, when your bowels are moving appropriately, the act shouldn’t take more than a minute or two. If it takes longer, it‘s time to increase your fiber intake.

And you risk dropping the reading material/phone in a less than sanitary environment, though you are already committing whatever you peruse to a generous coating of a colonic bacteria.

Fortunately, there are easy ways to avoid some germs. One of the worst places to use your phone is in the bathroom, Martin and Whittier both agree. When toilets flush, they spread germs everywhere, which is how phones end up with fecal bacteria like E. coli. “Taking a cell phone into the bathroom and then leaving with it is kind of like going in, not washing your hands and then coming back out,” Martin says. “It’s the same level of concern.”

 

[Dezbelief]

I’ll read the shampoo bottle if I have to.

Same, it's like a mental block if I'm not reading.

 

[nirad3]

Absolutely.

 

[MAC_32]

I've established a routine at the office in which I won't look at my phone (and email) from the moment I walk in until it's time to work out the morning plumbing. I've found that between 8 something and 10 something are my most productive minutes every day, so I don't want to waste any of them. By the time I get down to business I am usually dozens of texts and emails behind, so while it only takes about a minute or so to take care of things I generally don't dethrone until I'm all caught up on morning messaging.

Other than that it stays in my pocket then I'm in-and-out quickly.

 

[tri-man 47]

Other than that it stays in my pocket then I'm in-and-out quickly.

I think that will be a different poll ...

 

[shuke]

Before cell phones I would read whatever I could get my hands on. Shampoo bottle, etc.

 

[ProstheticRGK]

Growing up, we always had a basket on the back of the toilet with extra TP and a couple issues of Reader's Digest. 8 of us in a house with one bathroom. When you finally got in, you make the most of that time!

 

[-OZ-]

Another readers digest family here.
Now I bring a book but often just surf the net or play pool online

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I'm glad that smell posting hasn't been invented yet, or most of my posts would stink.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

(Bookstore):

MANAGER: Excuse me, Sir. What are you doing?

GEORGE: (Acting innocent) I'm all set.

MANAGER: (Pointing) Did you take that book with you into the bathroom?

GEORGE: What do you want to hear?


(Cut to Coffee Shop):

GEORGE: They made me buy it.. A hundred bucks this thing cost me. (Gesturing to the book) How dare they?! I got news for you, if it wasn't for the toilet, there would be no books!

 

[the moops]

No, when your bowels are moving appropriately, the act shouldn’t take more than a minute or two. If it takes longer, it‘s time to increase your fiber intake.

And you risk dropping the reading material/phone in a less than sanitary environment, though you are already committing whatever you peruse to a generous coating of a colonic bacteria.

Fortunately, there are easy ways to avoid some germs. One of the worst places to use your phone is in the bathroom, Martin and Whittier both agree. When toilets flush, they spread germs everywhere, which is how phones end up with fecal bacteria like E. coli. “Taking a cell phone into the bathroom and then leaving with it is kind of like going in, not washing your hands and then coming back out,” Martin says. “It’s the same level of concern.”

I just knew you would come in here and ruin the fun