Why do people read on the toilet?
I really don’t understand this. I’ve tried it once but I couldn’t read anything because I can’t focus on reading and doing the other thing at the same time.So how do people do this(if they really do it)?
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When you have children and nowhere else to escape for some quiet time, you’ll understand.
I find myself reading labels for shampoo bottles and such. Nothing else to do, the poop kinda comes out on its own.
My reading something while sitting on the porcelain throne tends to facilitate a quicker and more productive bowel movement on many occasions. Who knew?
Reading keeps your mind distracted, makes it all go easier.
lurve to all for reading and pooping. we are all so talented!
Depends on if you are the type who can squat, push it out and move on, or if you’re the type that must linger because round 2 may be just around the corner. If you’re the later, it can get pretty damn boring with nothing to do but count how long it takes your legs to go numb.
I agree with @Sarcasm. I find myself reading whatever is near me. And even so, I can reread anything. Trust me one day I’ll be reading a lotion label and next time if it’s near me I’ll reread it. I also have porn magazines next to the toilet so yeah. ;)
J/k about the porn. I only have children books because by the time I’m done reading I’m also done pooping. (:
[edit: ooh I know I have really bad grammar(some commas are missing) in this response…I really need to go to bed now.]
I don’t usually have a “round 2,” but I find that I can’t just clean up and move on. I need to sit for a little while.
Might as well read during that time.
@drdoombot – yeah, not just “round 2” but the need to linger, or perhaps the “Klingons” which one could spend 5 minutes and half a roll of tp getting rid of, or sit for 10 minutes and let free themselves, in which case a book could come in handy.
To pass time. I too often find myself reading shampoo labels.
Because I must. I cannot just sit there and not read. Like others have mentioned, I will read anything at all (shampoo, soap, tampon boxes) if I don’t have a book or magazine to turn to.
And that is the reason the bathroom is refered to as the library.
Because they don’t like being alone with their own thoughts?
I mean, why else would you read shampoo labels and such…odd
I envy all of you with iPhone’s, now I see the true reason to get one :P How many people were pooping while reading this thread ;)
Because books make you poop. Seriously. How many times have you entered a bookstore ready to browse around for an hour or so, only to make the rude discovery that something mean is a brewin’? I can’t say why, but there is something there, trust me. Bookstores without bathrooms; What’s up with that? That’s as bad as not having a toilet at Peet’s coffee.
Since I’m in and out in a flash, I can really get down with toilet reading. There’s also the weird Seinfeldian poo-hand-book syndrome. No one wants fecal matter all over their copy of Elements of Style.
Well. if you are in the bathroom – reading, why stand when there is a perfectly good seat handy?
@markyy I am on the toilet right now.
@peedub Ha exactly why I don’t buy used books ;) A book could come in handy when you’re out of TP though!
@Capt_Bloth Tell me what’s going through you (Sorry, it doesn’t translate well, but that’s what every interviewer here asks an athlete after they finish) :P
I am actually having the hiccups while laughing my ass off with my gf and trying to smoke for my hiccups.
The only thing going through me right now is how can I get rid of my hiccups.
@peedub, The first book you’d read in the bathroom is Strunk & White? Really?
@chuboy Welcome to fluther. Lurve.
And exactly right! I need to take my mind off of what I am trying to do, and just let the body do what it wants.
This is turning into a really shitty thread…
The bathroom, I love our bathroom! It is my sanctuary! I read my kindle2, I fluther. It is the only room where I can have complete privacy!!
If I could do what I have to do as fast as girlofscience can, I wouldn’t read.
because my mind gets restless
It distracts me. It is a place that since I am there. Might as well read.
Cooking dinner from the can is not an option.
If only I had a workbench in the bathroom. Toilet height.
My father used to use his morning trip to toilet as a way to get quit of my mother’s incessant chatter. He read in there for an hour; we always assumed that is what one did.
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Some people love parallel computing.
Because it’s a good time to get some reading done.
< Totally read Strunk & White in the bathroom. Is a nerd.
I remember one time I was constipated… I was on the “throne” long enough to read war and peace. twice!
This odious and unsanitary habit will disappear as the price of a flat screen television falls.
My bf has half his library surrounding the toilet. I can’t have a quick pee without knocking over everything from engineering textbooks to Chomsky. I never did understand… until now, though I’m not quite sure if I’m any better off for it.
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